[Pkg-owncloud-maintainers] Bug#789726: owncloud: add support for multiple instances

[David Prévot]

Hi,

We already had a few words on IRC with Thiago, but let me write some
ideas down before I forget.

On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 06:38:05PM -0300, Thiago Ribeiro wrote:
> Package: owncloud
> Version: 7.0.6+dfsg-1
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: patch

> owncloud […] does
> not support multiple instances without duplicating the owncloud source tree.
> 
> The upstream community is still discussing that possibility:
> https://github.com/owncloud/core/pull/16424
> 
> I've made a patch based on the changes in that pull request, which makes it
> possible to have separate instances of owncloud, with separate
> database and data folders.

That is very welcome, thank you for working on that!

> Please consider applying it to the Debian package.

Sure, but IMHO, adding this feature to the version 7 is not worth it: we
intend to maintain (and especially backport security fixes on)
owncloud 7 because that is the version shipped in Jessie, but the
packaging for owncloud 8.1 is ready for quite some time already (not
pushed yet to experimental since some dependencies are being processed
in NEW).

> If you are OK with carrying this patch while the upstream community
> discusses it,

Yes, I do hope this feature will make it upstream, but would be happy to
consider it for Stretch no matter what. If you can rebase your patch on
the current stable8 branch of our repository, that would be nice.

> I can also update the documentation with a simple tutorial on how to do
> this.

Thank you for your proposal. Hopefully, a short (entry in the current)
README will be enough (i.e., there won’t be too much work for
administrators to set up multiple instances).

> with this patch, I managed three instances of owncloud, also I wrote a
> cookbook that makes instalation and configurations that are required.

That looks nice, I hope I’ll be able to follow you up on that (maybe
during a face to face if you’ll be in DebCamp or DebConf).

Regards

David
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