TODO NOW:
-- Make it faster
- - Wipe temp directories if the upgrade succeeds
- - Put temp directories on tmpfs before merging, then move to disk
- if it fails and needs resolution. /var/run is a pretty good
- choice if your running as root, not so good if you're not. Find
- other common tmpfs locations (mount | grep tmpfs) and perhaps
- check some common ones.
- - Certain classes of error will continually fail, so they should
- put in a different "seen" file which also skips them, unless
- we have some sort of gentle force
-
- Keep my sanity when upgrading 1000 installs
- - Distinguish between errors(?)
- - 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
- - `vos exa` in order to check what a person's quota is. We can
- figure out roughly how big the upgrade is going to be by
- doing a size comparison of the tars: `git pull` MUST NOT
- fail, otherwise things are left conflicted, and not easy to fix.
- - Prune -7 call errors and automatically reprocess them (with a
- strike out counter of 3)
- - Snap-in conflict resolution teaching:
- 1. View the merge conflicts after doing a short run
- 2. Identify common merge conflicts
- 3. Copypaste the conflict markers to the application. Scrub
- user-specific data; this may mean removing the entire
- upper bit which is the user-version.
- 4. Specify which section to keep. /Usually/ this means
- punting the new change, but if the top was specified
- it means we get a little more flexibility. Try to
- minimize wildcarding: those things need to be put into
- subpatterns and then reconstituted into the output.
- Example:
- Input:
- <<<<<<<
- ***1***
- =======
- upstream
- >>>>>>>
- Output:
- [1] # discard system string
- Input:
- <<<<<<<
- old upstream
- =======
- new upstream
- >>>>>>>
- Output:
- ['R'] # keep the new upstream string
- # This would be useful if a particular upstream change
- # is really close to where user changes are, so that
- # the conflict pops up a lot and it's actually spurious
- Input:
- <<<<<<<
- ***1***
- old upstream
- ***2***
- old upstream
- ***3***
- =======
- new upstream
- >>>>>>>
- Output:
- ['R', 1, 2, 3] # should be evident
- # it's not actually clear to me if this is useful
- To resolve: do we need the power of regexes? This might suck
- because it means we need to implement escaping. We might want
- simple globbing to the end of line since that's common in
- configuration files.
-
-- Distinguish from logging and reporting (so we can easily send mail
- to users)
- - Remove "already migrated" cruft that will accumulate if we do small
- --limit and then increase.
- - Logs aren't actually useful, /because/ most operations are idempotent.
- Thus, scratch logfile and make our report files more useful: error.log
- needs error information; we don't care too much about machinability.
- All report files should be overwritten on the next run, since we like
- using --limit to incrementally increase the number of things we run. Note
- that if we add soft ignores, you /do/ lose information, so there needs
- to be some way to also have the soft ignore report a "cached error"
- - Report the identifier number at the beginning of all of the stdout logs
- - Log files that already exist should be initialized with some sort
- of separator THAT CONTAINS THE LOCATION OF THE INSTALL
- - Don't really care about having the name in the logfile name, but
- have a lookup txt file
- - Figure out a way of collecting blacklist data from .scripts/blacklisted
- and aggregate it together
- - Failed migrations should be wired to have wizard commands in them
- automatically log to the relevant file. In addition, the seen file
- should get updated when one of them gets fixed.
- - Log files need to have dates, since it looks like upgrades will be
- multi-day affairs
- - Failed migration should report how many unmerged files there are
- (so we can auto-punt if it's over a threshold)
- - Verification failures should be written to a report file, possibly
- with short HTML fingerprints so we can inspect them easily and
- numbers to look at the log files
-
-- Let users use Wizard when ssh'ed into Scripts
- - Make single user mass-migrate work when not logged in as root
+ - 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
- Make the rest of the world use Wizard
- Make parallel-find.pl use `sudo -u username git describe --tags`
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? (the parsing overhead
+ may not be worth it)
+ - 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
+ - Make single user mass-migrate work when not logged in as root
- 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
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