[tei-council] New TEI Roma server needs testing

[David Sewell]

All,

Thanks to Daniel Pitti, Chris Ruotolo and in particular sysadmin Shayne 
Brandon at IATH, there is now a full-featured Roma server running on 
www.tei-c.org:

   http://www.tei-c.org/Roma/

I've done a quick test of generating schema/documentation/saved 
customization plus trying the Sanity Checker, and everything worked. I 
was also able to use it for command-line roma via

   roma  --teiserver=http://www.tei-c.org/Query/

Could those of you who are so inclined do some testing as well, 
especially of anything you might think of that has been buggy in the 
past?

Assuming that this new installation is indeed robust, we'll need to 
decide whether to advertise the above URL as the default server address.
When we first set out to get Roma running on a Virginia machine the 
thought was to provide a backup to the Oxford server, or perhaps to 
share the load via some sort of load-sharing arrangement. Shayne says 
there's not a simple way to set up www.tei-c.org to hand off Roma 
requests to two machines, but it can easily configured to redirect to 
Oxford when needed for server maintenance. Should we just change the 
default Roma link on the TEI website to the new machine, and figure out 
a way to advertise the Oxford server as an alternate? Other ideas?

David

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