5 - If you try to do an install on scripts w/o sql, it will sign you up but fail to write
6 the sql.cnf file. This sucks.
8 - wizard install wordpress should ask for password. One problem with this is that
9 Wordpress will still send mail with the wrong username and password, so Wordpress
10 will need to be patched to not do that. Alternatively we can initally set the admin
11 email to a null address and then fix it manually.
12 - --raw parameter for install which means an arbitrary commit can be installed
13 - Parse output HTML for class="error" and give those errors back to the user (done),
14 then boot them back into configure so they can enter in something different
15 - Get rid of our custom sizing code and use dialog's built-in sizing (i.e. width=0, height=0).
16 Maybe our sizing code is superior, maybe not.
18 - Replace gaierror with a more descriptive name (this is a DNS error)
20 - Pre-emptively check if daemon/scripts-security-upd
21 is not on scripts-security-upd list (/mit/moira/bin/blanche)
23 - Web application for installing autoinstalls has a hard problem
24 with credentials (as well as installations that are not conducted
25 on an Athena machine.) We have some crazy ideas involving a signed
26 Java applet that uses jsch to SSH into athena.dialup and perform
30 - Tidy up common code in callAsUser and drop_priviledges in shell
31 - Summary script should be more machine friendly, and should not
32 output summary charts when I increase specificity
33 - Summary script should do something intelligent when distinguishing
34 between old-style and new-style installs
35 - Report code in wizard/command/__init__.py is ugly as sin. Also,
36 the Report object should operate at a higher level of abstraction
37 so we don't have to manually increment fails. (in fact, that should
38 probably be called something different). The by-percent errors should
40 - Move resolutions in mediawiki.py to a text file? (the parsing overhead
42 - If a process is C-ced, it can result in a upgrade that has
43 an updated filesystem but not updated database. Make this more
45 - PHP end of file allows omitted semicolon, can result in parse error
46 if merge resolutions aren't careful. `php -l` can be a quick stopgap
49 - Figure out why Sphinx sometimes fails to crossref :func: but wil
50 crossref :meth:, even though the dest is very clearly a function.
51 Example: :func:`wizard.app.php.re_var`
52 - The TODO extension for Sphinx doesn't properly force a full-rebuild
54 - Make single user mass-migrate work when not logged in as root. The
55 primary difficulty is making the parallel-find information easily
56 accessible to individual users: perhaps we can do a single-user
57 parallel-find on the fly.
58 - Don't use the scripts heuristics unless we're on scripts with the
59 AFS patch. Check with `fs sysname`
60 - Make 'wizard summary' generate nice pretty graphs of installs by date
61 (more histograms, will need to check actual .scripts-version files.)
62 - It should be able to handle installs like Django where there's a component
63 that gets installed in web_scripts and another directory that gets installed
65 - ACLs is a starting point for sending mail to users, but it has
66 several failure modes:
67 - Old maintainers who don't care who are still on the ACL
68 - Private AFS groups that aren't mailing lists and that we
70 A question is whether or not sending mail actually helps us:
71 many users will probably have to come back to us for help; many
72 other users won't care.
74 PULLING OUT CONFIGURATION FILES IN AN AUTOMATED MANNER
76 advancedpoll: Template file to fill out
77 django: Noodles of template files
78 gallery2: Multistage install process
80 mediawiki: One-step install process
81 phpbb: Multistage install process
82 phpical: Template file
85 wordpress: Multistage install process
87 COMMIT MESSAGE FIELDS:
89 Installed-by: username@hostname
90 Pre-commit-by: Real Name <username@mit.edu>
91 Upgraded-by: Real Name <username@mit.edu>
92 Migrated-by: Real Name <username@mit.edu>
93 Wizard-revision: abcdef1234567890
94 Wizard-args: /wizard/bin/wizard foo bar baz
98 Committer: Real Name <username@mit.edu>
99 Author: lockername locker <lockername@scripts.mit.edu>
103 - It is not required nor expected for update scripts to exist for all
104 intervening versions that were present pre-migration; only for it
105 to work on the most recent migration.
107 - Currently all repositories are initialized with --shared, which
108 means they have basically ~no space footprint. However, it
109 also means that /mit/scripts/wizard/srv MUST NOT lose revs after
114 * Some parts of the infrastructure will not be touched, although I plan
115 on documenting them. Specifically, we will be keeping:
117 - parallel-find.pl, and the resulting
118 /mit/scripts/.htaccess/scripts/sec-tools/store/scriptslist
120 * The new procedure for generating an update is as follows:
121 (check out the mass-migration instructions for something in this spirit,
122 although uglier in some ways; A indicates the step /should/ be automated)
124 0. ssh into not-backward, temporarily give the daemon.scripts-security-upd
125 bits by blanching it on system:scripts-security-upd, and run parallel-find.pl
127 1. [ see doc/upgrade.rst ]
129 [ENTER HERE FROM CREATING A NEW REPO]
131 9. Push all of your changes in a public place, and encourage others
132 to test, using --srv-path and a full path.
134 [ XXX: doc/deploy.rst ]
135 GET APPROVAL BEFORE PROCEEDING ANY FURTHER;
136 THIS IS PUSHING THE CHANGES TO THE PUBLIC
138 NOTE: The following commands are to be run on not-backward.mit.edu.
139 You'll need to add daemon.scripts-security-upd to
140 scripts-security-upd to get bits to do this. Make sure you remove
141 these bits when you're done.
143 10. Run `wizard research appname`
144 which uses Git commands to check how many
145 working copies apply the change cleanly, and writes out a logfile
146 with the working copies that don't apply cleanly. It also tells
147 us about "corrupt" working copies, i.e. working copies that
148 have over a certain threshold of changes.
150 11. Run `wizard mass-upgrade appname`, which applies the update to all working
153 12. Run parallel-find.pl to update our inventory
155 [ XXX: doc/upgrade.rst ]
156 * For mass importing into the repository, there are a few extra things:
158 * When mass producing updates, if the patch has changed you will have to
159 do a special procedure for your merge:
161 git checkout pristine
162 # NOTE: Now, the tricky part (this is different from a real update)
163 git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/master
164 # NOTE: Now, we think we're on the master branch, but we have
165 # pristine copy checked out
166 # NOTE: -p0 might need to be twiddled
167 patch -p0 < ../app-1.2.3/app-1.2.3.patch
169 # reconstitute .scripts directory
170 git checkout v1.2.2-scripts -- .scripts
172 # NOTE: Fake the merge
173 git rev-parse pristine > .git/MERGE_HEAD
175 You could also just try your luck with a manual merge using the patch
178 [ XXX: doc/layout.rst ]
179 * The repository for a given application will contain the following files:
181 - The actual application's files, as from the official tarball
183 - A .scripts directory, with the intent of holding Scripts specific files
184 if they become necessary.
186 - .scripts/dsn, overriding database source name