+- Keep my sanity when upgrading 1000 installs
+ - Custom merge algo: absolute php.ini symlinks to relative symlinks (this
+ does not seem to have been a problem in practice)
+ - Custom merge algo: check if it's got extra \r's in the file,
+ and dos2unix it if it does, before performing the merge
+ - Prune -7 call errors and automatically reprocess them (with a
+ strike out counter of 3)--this requires better error parsing.
+ - IOError should be aggregated, right now contains custom string
+ that makes this not possible. Partition on a colon.
+ - Replace gaierror with a more descriptive name (this is a DNS error)
+ - Stronger skips means that backup failures should also be avoided
+ - Distinguish between types of backup failures
+ - Ignore empty blacklists; they should all have reasons
+ - wizard upgrade should have different exit codes for merge failure
+ and blacklist error. This means augmenting error classes to have
+ exit codes in them
+
+- Distinguish from logging and reporting (so we can easily send mail
+ to users)
+ - Figure out a way of collecting blacklist data from .scripts/blacklisted
+ and aggregate it together
+
+- Let users use Wizard when ssh'ed into Scripts
+ - Make single user mass-migrate work when not logged in as root
+
+- Make the rest of the world use Wizard
+ - Make parallel-find.pl use `sudo -u username git describe --tags`
+ to determine version. Make parallel-find.pl have this have greater
+ precedence. This also means, however, that we get
+ full mediawiki-1.2.3-2-abcdef names (Have patch, pending testing and commit)
+ - Make deployed installer use 'wizard install' /or/ do a migration
+ after doing a normal install (the latter makes it easier
+ for mass-rollbacks).
+
+- Pre-emptively check if daemon/scripts-security-upd
+ is not on scripts-security-upd list (/mit/moira/bin/blanche)
+
+- Redo Wordpress conversion, with an eye for automating everything
+ possible (such as downloading the tarball and unpacking)
+
+- Pay back code debt
+ - Genericize callAsUser and drop_priviledges in shell
+ - Summary script should be more machine friendly, and should not
+ output summary charts when I increase specificity
+ - Summary script should do something intelligent when distinguishing
+ between old-style and new-style installs
+ - Report code in wizard/command/__init__.py is ugly as sin. Also,
+ the Report object should operate at a higher level of abstraction
+ so we don't have to manually increment fails. (in fact, that should
+ probably be called something different). The by-percent errors should
+ also be automated.
+ - Indents in upgrade.py are getting pretty ridiculous; more breaking
+ into functions is probably a good idea
+ - Move resolutions in mediawiki.py to a text file
+ - Investigate QuotaParseErrors
+ - If a process is C-ced, it can result in a upgrade that has
+ an updated filesystem but not updated database. Make this more
+ resilient
+ - PHP end of file allows omitted semicolon, can result in parse error
+ if merge resolutions aren't careful.
+
+- Other stuff
+ - Don't use the scripts heuristics unless we're on scripts with the
+ AFS patch. Check with `fs sysname`
+ - Make 'wizard summary' generate nice pretty graphs of installs by date
+ (more histograms, will need to check actual .scripts-version files.)
+ - It should be able to handle installs like Django where there's a component
+ that gets installed in web_scripts and another directory that gets installed
+ in Scripts.
+ - ACLs is a starting point for sending mail to users, but it has
+ several failure modes:
+ - Old maintainers who don't care who are still on the ACL
+ - Private AFS groups that aren't mailing lists and that we
+ can't get to
+ A question is whether or not sending mail actually helps us:
+ many users will probably have to come back to us for help; many
+ other users won't care.
+
+PULLING OUT CONFIGURATION FILES IN AN AUTOMATED MANNER
+
+advancedpoll: Template file to fill out
+django: Noodles of template files
+gallery2: Multistage install process
+joomla: Template file
+mediawiki: One-step install process
+phpbb: Multistage install process
+phpical: Template file
+trac: NFC
+turbogears: NFC
+wordpress: Multistage install process
+
+PHILOSOPHY ABOUT LOGGING
+
+Logging is most useful when performing a mass run. This
+includes things such as mass-migration as well as when running
+summary reports. An interesting property about mass-migration
+or mass-upgrade, however, is that if they fail, they are
+idempotent, so an individual case can be debugged simply running
+the single-install equivalent with --debug on. (This, indeed,
+may be easier to do than sifting through a logfile).
+
+It is a different story when you are running a summary report:
+you are primarily bound by your AFS cache and how quickly you can
+iterate through all of the autoinstalls. Checking if a file
+exists on a cold AFS cache may
+take several minutes to perform; on a hot cache the same report
+may take a mere 3 seconds. When you get to more computationally
+expensive calculations, however, even having a hot AFS cache
+is not enough to cut down your runtime.
+
+There are certain calculations that someone may want to be
+able to perform on manipulated data. As such, this data should
+be cached on disk, if the process for extracting this data takes
+a long time. Also, for usability sake, Wizard should generate
+the common case reports.
+
+Ensuring that machine parseable reports are made, and then making
+the machinery to reframe this data, increases complexity. Therefore,
+the recommendation is to assume that if you need to run iteratively,
+you'll have a hot AFS cache at your fingerprints, and if that's not
+fast enough, then cache the data.