[annotator-dev] New dev and my first problem

Mon Jul 25 10:02:48 UTC 2011

I'm not sure of the details nor how the systems work. I only started looking
at this software this morning, so I have to learn as I go.

We'd like to get content from a different site (cnx.org), then allow
annotations to be made on that content on our own site, which will be saved
in a DB somewhere. Every time an annotation is made it must get noted in the
bug tracker. Whenever the bugtracker note is updated (fixed, expired etc)
the annotation must get updated so that there is a record on both the
annotations and the bug tracker. At the moment we see the annotations as
something the users will see and use (they're teachers mostly) and we would
use the bugtracker internally to see whats happening (the bugtracker will be
open for viewing though). So in my mind it looks like we'll need access to
the DB to modify the annotations from the bugtracker's side.

Of course, a better solution will be most welcome :D

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>wrote:

>
> On 25 July 2011 10:21, Ewald Zietsman <ewald at siyavula.com> wrote:
>
>> Thank you sir. It runs now.
>>
>> We need our own store because we want to link it with a bug tracker and
>> will most likely need to make some changes to all the software to make them
>> work together.
>>
>
> But even if you want to integrate with the bug tracker can't you just pull
> info the from the REST API -- do you really need to integrate at the DB
> level (and in any cases couchdb's API is a restful one not that different
> from that on annotateit.org ...)
>
> Rufus
>
>
>> I'll be back here soon enough.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>wrote:
>>
>>> On 25 July 2011 09:19, Ewald Zietsman <ewald at siyavula.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> I work for a company that creates open educational resources and tools
>>>> for educators and students. I've been given the task to make our books
>>>> annotatable using the annotator software.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Great to hear!
>>>
>>>
>>>> I have checked out the latest git source for the annotator-store and
>>>> tried to run it using the instructions on the website. When I get to the
>>>> "python run.py" step I get the following:
>>>>
>>>
>>> Just to check: you know you don't need to deploy the store to integrate
>>> with your system as you can use the existing annotateit.org service as
>>> your storage if you want. I would imagine that, at least in the first
>>> instance, this will be easier as it will allow you to focus on integrating
>>> the frontend javascript system.
>>>
>>>
>>>> (pyenv)ewald at ewald-laptop:~/programming/annotator-store$ python run.py
>>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>>   File "run.py", line 6, in <module>
>>>>     setup_app()
>>>>   File "/home/ewald/programming/annotator-store/annotator/app.py", line
>>>> 23, in setup_app
>>>>     model.init_model(app.config)
>>>>   File
>>>> "/home/ewald/programming/annotator-store/annotator/model/couch.py", line 18,
>>>> in init_model
>>>>     Metadata.DB = setup_db(config['COUCHDB_DATABASE'])
>>>>   File
>>>> "/home/ewald/programming/annotator-store/annotator/model/couch.py", line 21,
>>>> in setup_db
>>>>     if dbname in Metadata.SERVER:
>>>>   File
>>>> "/home/ewald/programming/annotator-store/pyenv/lib/python2.6/site-packages/couchdb/client.py",
>>>> line 93, in __contains__
>>>>     self.resource.head(validate_dbname(name))
>>>>   File
>>>> "/home/ewald/programming/annotator-store/pyenv/lib/python2.6/site-packages/couchdb/http.py",
>>>> line 377, in head
>>>>     return self._request('HEAD', path, headers=headers, **params)
>>>>   File
>>>> "/home/ewald/programming/annotator-store/pyenv/lib/python2.6/site-packages/couchdb/http.py",
>>>> line 419, in _request
>>>>     credentials=self.credentials)
>>>>   File
>>>> "/home/ewald/programming/annotator-store/pyenv/lib/python2.6/site-packages/couchdb/http.py",
>>>> line 239, in request
>>>>     resp = _try_request_with_retries(iter(self.retry_delays))
>>>>   File
>>>> "/home/ewald/programming/annotator-store/pyenv/lib/python2.6/site-packages/couchdb/http.py",
>>>> line 205, in _try_request_with_retries
>>>>     raise e
>>>> socket.error: [Errno 111] Connection refused
>>>>
>>>
>>> You have installed and are running couchdb right :-) ?
>>>
>>> Rufus
>>>
>>>
>>>>  I'm running on Ubuntu 10.10 32-bit. Any help in this regard will be
>>>> greatly appreciated.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>
>>
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