-The Git Autoinstaller
+- [SCRIPTS] MediaWiki 1.9.3 and 1.6.7
+
+- Plugin-ify! Hook-ify! In more detail, applications should all be moved
+ out into plugins, scripts specific behavior should be moved into
+ plugins, and hooks need to be made available so that we can exert
+ the correct level of control.
+
+- [SCRIPTS] Wordpress needs to get rid of the siteurl hack, so that it
+ actually has a fully-qualified URL http://foo.scripts.mit.edu/blah.
+ This will also fix Wordpress's cron functionality. We should be
+ careful not to write over users who are on vhosts. We should figure
+ out who is still on twiddle paths. We should make sure the redirect
+ is handled correctly.
+
+- Remerges aren't reflected in the parent files, so `git diff` output is
+ spurious. Not sure how to fix this w/o tree hackery.
+- Sometimes users remove files. Well, if those files change, they automatically
+ get marked as conflicted. Maybe we should say for certain files "if they're
+ gone, they're gone forever"? What is the proper resolution?
-TODO NOW:
-
-- XXX: Upgrades don't pull updated tags, breaking git describe --tags!
- Fix this for the future, and figure out how to make everyone else happy!
-- If you try to do an install on scripts w/o sql, it will sign you up but fail to write
- the sql.cnf file. This sucks.
-
-- wizard install wordpress should ask for password. One problem with this is that
- Wordpress will still send mail with the wrong username and password, so Wordpress
- will need to be patched to not do that. Alternatively we can initally set the admin
- email to a null address and then fix it manually.
-- --raw parameter for install which means an arbitrary commit can be installed
- Parse output HTML for class="error" and give those errors back to the user (done),
then boot them back into configure so they can enter in something different
-- Get rid of our custom sizing code and use dialog's built-in sizing (i.e. width=0, height=0).
- Maybe our sizing code is superior, maybe not.
-- Replace gaierror with a more descriptive name (this is a DNS error)
+- [SCRIPTS] If you try to do an install on scripts w/o sql, it will sign
+ you up but fail to write the sql.cnf file. This sucks.
-- Pre-emptively check if daemon/scripts-security-upd
- is not on scripts-security-upd list (/mit/moira/bin/blanche)
-
-- Web application for installing autoinstalls has a hard problem
- with credentials (as well as installations that are not conducted
- on an Athena machine.) We have some crazy ideas involving a signed
- Java applet that uses jsch to SSH into athena.dialup and perform
- operations.
+- [SCRIPTS] Web application for installing autoinstalls has a hard
+ problem with credentials (as well as installations that are not
+ conducted on an Athena machine.) We have some crazy ideas involving a
+ signed Java applet that uses jsch to SSH into athena.dialup and
+ perform operations.
- Pay back code debt
- - Tidy up common code in callAsUser and drop_priviledges in shell
+ - Tidy up common code in callAsUser and drop_priviledges in shell;
+ namely cooking up the sudo and environment variable lines
- 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.
- - Move resolutions in mediawiki.py to a text file? (the parsing overhead
- may not be worth it)
- - 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. `php -l` can be a quick stopgap
- Other stuff
+ - Add support for mypristine workflow
- Figure out why Sphinx sometimes fails to crossref :func: but wil
crossref :meth:, even though the dest is very clearly a function.
Example: :func:`wizard.app.php.re_var`
- The TODO extension for Sphinx doesn't properly force a full-rebuild
- - Code annotation!
- Make single user mass-migrate work when not logged in as root. The
primary difficulty is making the parallel-find information easily
accessible to individual users: perhaps we can do a single-user
- 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:
+
+- [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
+[ XXX: metadata.rst ]
COMMIT MESSAGE FIELDS:
Committer: Real Name <username@mit.edu>
Author: lockername locker <lockername@scripts.mit.edu>
-NOTES:
-
-- It is not required nor expected for update scripts to exist for all
- intervening versions that were present pre-migration; only for it
- to work on the most recent migration.
-
-- Currently all repositories are initialized with --shared, which
- means they have basically ~no space footprint. However, it
- also means that /mit/scripts/wizard/srv MUST NOT lose revs after
- deployment.
-
OVERALL PLAN:
+[ XXX: doc/deps.rst ]
* Some parts of the infrastructure will not be touched, although I plan
on documenting them. Specifically, we will be keeping:
- - parallel-find.pl, and the resulting
- /mit/scripts/.htaccess/scripts/sec-tools/store/scriptslist
-
-* The new procedure for generating an update is as follows:
- (check out the mass-migration instructions for something in this spirit,
- although uglier in some ways; A indicates the step /should/ be automated)
-
- 0. ssh into not-backward, temporarily give the daemon.scripts-security-upd
- bits by blanching it on system:scripts-security-upd, and run parallel-find.pl
+ - get-homedirs.sh. which needs to be run as root on scripts. Store
+ in /mit/scripts/sec-tools/store/scriptslist
- 1. [ see doc/upgrade.rst ]
-
- [ENTER HERE FROM CREATING A NEW REPO]
-
- 9. Push all of your changes in a public place, and encourage others
- to test, using --srv-path and a full path.
+ - parallel-find.pl, and the resulting
+ /mit/scripts/sec-tools/store/versions
[ XXX: doc/deploy.rst ]
GET APPROVAL BEFORE PROCEEDING ANY FURTHER;
12. Run parallel-find.pl to update our inventory
-[ XXX: doc/upgrade.rst ]
-* For mass importing into the repository, there are a few extra things:
-
- * When mass producing updates, if the patch has changed you will have to
- do a special procedure for your merge:
-
- git checkout pristine
- # NOTE: Now, the tricky part (this is different from a real update)
- git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/master
- # NOTE: Now, we think we're on the master branch, but we have
- # pristine copy checked out
- # NOTE: -p0 might need to be twiddled
- patch -p0 < ../app-1.2.3/app-1.2.3.patch
- git add .
- # reconstitute .scripts directory
- git checkout v1.2.2-scripts -- .scripts
- git add .scripts
- # NOTE: Fake the merge
- git rev-parse pristine > .git/MERGE_HEAD
-
- You could also just try your luck with a manual merge using the patch
- as your guide.
-
-[ XXX: doc/layout.rst ]
+[ XXX: doc/metadata.rst ]
* The repository for a given application will contain the following files:
- The actual application's files, as from the official tarball