-The Git Autoinstaller
-
-TODO NOW:
-
-- The calling web code invocations are a mess, with stubs living
- in the install, deploy modules and the real deal living in util. Furthermore,
- we use the scripts-specific heuristic to determine where the app
- lives, and the only reason my test scripts work is because they
- get manually fed the domain and path by my environment variables.
-
- We will record the URL used for the initial installation, and save it in
- .scripts/url. If autodetection in either direction is
- available, we verify this value against the actual file path the installation
- lives in (for the scripts case, we can do a file-level comparison because we
- know the web root of any given file). If they mismatch, we error out
- and have someone manually resolve the problem. If autodetection is not
- available, we use the saved .scripts/url for operations.
-
-- wizard install wordpress should ask for password
-- Test code should auto-nuke the database using `wizard remove` before doing a new install
-- git diff :1:$file :2:$file to find out what the user did, or is it :3:?
-- php.ini needs to get substituted!
-- --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
-- 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.
+- Make scripts_plugin email heuristic less stupid, or maybe even ask for an
+ email. This is tracked as Scripts #224 (this issue) and Scripts #193
+ (tracking a contact address).
+- Current parallelization probably does a bad job distributing
+ working tasks over different components of the pipeline. Fix
+ this by adding jitter? Trying to smear things out?
+
+- Test head doesn't do quite the right thing with version numbers
+ (shouldn't git describe, instead should give a version infinitely
+ in the future.)
+- Strategy introspection and disabling.
+- prepare-config (and others) create .wizard dir even
+ when not strictly necessary
+- Bug out immediately if tags are not present in the master tip
+ of the repository
+- pending doesn't seem to get written out properly sometimes (or
+ it's being deleted); this makes it hard to --continue on the
+ event of an upgrade failure. Also, we seem to bounce back to
+ the production copy to check pending even when we run --continue
+ from the working dir.
+- Newline checks are /really really/ expensive on AFS; see if
+ we can minimize them or something. Right now, we're testing
+ a fix where we don't clone with --shared.
+- Replace .split("\n") with .splitlines()
+
+- Need to fix existing repo history? (not adding extra commits;
+ that'll be more difficult)
+
+ git rebase -i -p --root --onto COMMITID
+
+ This won't work if you need to change the very root of the
+ repository. You'll probably end up with conflicts and have
+ to manually resolve everything afterwards.
+
+ But usually you won't need --root --onto unless you really
+ fucked up the pristine branch. If you just need to change
+ the scripts spine,
+
+ git rebase -i -p COMMITID
+
+ should work.
+
+- [SCRIPTS] MediaWiki 1.6.7, 1.9.3 and 1.10.0
+
+- geofft comments:
+ "Connection to scripts.mit.edu closed" is confusing (tracked #393)
+ the URL should be easier to copy and paste, which means we should
+ move it out of dialog
+ We should ... upgrade our autoinstaller
+ Apparently installing WordPress updates or themes never indicates
+ completion, and just says "Downloading..", and you have to guess
+ when it's done
+
+- [SCRIPTS] phpBB
+ - phpBB or phpbb? (right now it's the former)
+ - need an upgrade story; srv needs more versions
+ - need a story about install/ contrib/
+
+- Give users a "certificate" of their merge, which they can
+ use to reuse that merge commit if something unrelated fails.
+
+- Human readable quota output
+- Nice error message on --continue if you forgot to git add your
+ resolved file (look for conflict markers)
+- The merge interface is a kind of major UI disaster; you won't
+ be able to use it unless you know how Git works. Also, the
+ merges can be quite difficult to resolve if upstream has made
+ large formatting changes like reindenting. We may also consider
+ providing a --rebase option, which seems to do better when
+ big problems like this show up.
+
+- Better mass-* support for just one user (this includes letting
+ a user mass upgrade just his own autoinstalls)
+
+- Show progress or something when upgrading
+- Allow 'sticky notes' for future upgraders to notice
+- .wizard/url semantics are subtly wrong: in particular, if we
+ explicitly configure a URL at install, we should be able to
+ detect this URL as baked in from the configuration
+
+- Rerere support doesn't actually work
+- "Version 3.0.0 doesn't exist; did you mean 3.0?"
+- Be a little more intelligent when perform web checks; for example,
+ if we get a forbidden message, that probably means we go the right
+ address but it's blocked off; if we get a 404 message, that probably
+ means wrong address. Account Unknown is something particularly good
+ to check for.
+- Wordpress module can do something intelligent if we get redirected
+ to the installation page.
+- wizardResolve* files seem to get left in tmp en-mass, and we don't
+ know why.
+
+- [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?