Slicer3:Web Presence

Overview

Infrastructure work to support a uniform Slicer web presence. Work building on AHM 2006 Project Slicer3 Web Presence

Requirements:

• ability to report number of unique Slicer binaries downloaded per month and per grant year, per release version, as well as aggregate numbers
• record user information as they agree to abide by the Slicer license agreement
• integrated download page that will provide links to binary Slicer packages, for nightly builds, developer snapshots, and official releases

Counting Downloads

Needed for grant reporting.

Current page: [to be found]

Parse the apache download logs directly or use multiple configuration files for ?

License Agreement

Needed for grant reporting.

Current page: [1]

The original license form was written as an HTML form that submitted data to a perl script that would verify the form entries and then write the user information to a series of flat files, one per month.

The move to use Wiki2Web for the Slicer web pages complicates the issue, as the form has to be translated into a MediaWiki page that will translate to the final web page and still work.

Download Page

Current page: http://www.na-mic.org/Slicer/Download/

Needs to be integrated into the Wiki2Web framework in such a way that supports automatic uploads from nightly builds, developer snapshot uploads, as well as automatic downloads of Windows prebuilt binary sub-packages during the building of Slicer.

From Andy 4 Jun 2007:

 You could also create a MediaWiki extension for downloading files.
 Then you can use W2W to write text around the page, but use the extension to give you the list of files.

Team Members

• Nicole Aucoin
• Zack Galbreath
• SPL system administrators