Application architecture Installation out of the box, patch releases - geonetwork/core-geonetwork GitHub Wiki

As a administrator, I want to deploy a gn install out of the box with some described use cases and not search for documentation on the web across different resources. As an administrator I would like to be informed about new releases (e.g. PIWIK admin sees at the top right that a new version is there.)

Out Of the box experience:

Requirements

• Simpler installer
• Fix central location for docs and installation so that it correctly links to all the resources

Documentation

Requirements

• Documentation template
• Central location for docs

Patches

Requirements

• Admin UI to run upgrade script
• Upgrade script downloads new version, stops server, deploys new version, restarts server.
• Problems:
• Can't access restart because tomcat user doesn't typically have the access to do this
• Better would be hot deploy of patch
• Problems with hot deploy:
• Static fields
• Need research