There is already
- A shared instance for the evolving Queen example tree, hosted on Grampshub, see New Gramps example database with British royal family
- The official Gramps Web demo, hosted on DigitalOcean
I don’t think an additional one is needed.
I am not suggesting another ‘demo’ tree for the public. Rather it would be another Gramps Web instance where Developers actively collaborate on the example.tree.
That tree would be exported (web sync’d ?) from Gramps Web instance then bundled as part of the release/packaging workflow. (Although I hate the thought of yet another Login account to be an active member of the Gramps developer community.)
- The official Gramps Web demo resets daily and all entries are lost. It cannot be used to evolve the example.tree
- The New Gramps example database with British royal family example does not have the test data used to validate the Gramps release or for bug testing.
Besides, It seems reasonable that the Gramps Web Demo adopt the “New Gramps example database with British royal family”?
That could make your internal documentation and testing systems more harmonious. Gramps Web and Gramps for Desktops are diverging in ways that would require a test Tree that targets your capabilities.
That’s exactly what the above mentioned Grampshub tree is meant for if one considers the Royal tree as the new example tree. If there is a second initiative for a new example tree, I think Grampshub would be the perfect place to host it.
It already has.
It will take a very long time to build a tree that exercises as many features as the example.gramps tree. We probably need to have a collaborative “currently exists” tree in addition to than a “forthcoming feature” tree.
Perhaps this collaboration (which would all be experienced Gramps users/developers) would be a good testbed for the experiment by @dsblank ?
That’s a great idea. We’ll have to have a round of faux collaborative testing to make sure everything is working. But I’ve designed gramps-connect to be a multi-user collaboration tool from the beginning. I’ve added a messaging system so co-editors can leave a message (far upper right blue chat icon):
Messages can notify the user via browser notifications, or be just in-app messages. Any change to an object also generates a notification. Messages are TODOs:
Can we please discuss example trees in a separate thread? I think it’s entirely orthogonal to the original topic of this thread, which is very important by itself.
Concerning example trees: please do note that a huge amount of effort - including Grampshub funding payed to a student to do manual work and contributions from Gramps community volunteers - went into the example tree I mentioned above and which is released under Creative Commons license at GitHub - DavidMStraub/gramps-web-example-tree-queen: An example family tree database for Gramps · GitHub. So I’m mildly surprised if the impression is generated here that nothing was done in this direction.
moved to new thread for further discussion