TODO NOW:
-- Check for extensions
-- Implement "group" filtering using blanche for limited rollouts.
-
-- Remove "already migrated" cruft that will accumulate if we do small
- --limit and then increase.
-- Allow to migrate just one user (user filtering of installs, also
- has userland capabilities, although it means we need some way of
- selectively publishing the versions directory--likely a suid
- executable that reads it would be the best way here)
-
-- 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 the installer use 'wizard install' /or/ do a migration
- after doing a normal install (the latter makes it easier
- for mass-rollbacks).
-- Have the upgrader do locking (.scripts/lock, probably)
-
-- Relax MediaWiki regexes to terminate on semicolon, and not
- require its own line.
-
-- Better error message if daemon/scripts-security-upd
- is not on scripts-security-upd list
-
-- Custom merge algo: absolute php.ini symlinks to relative symlinks
-- Custom merge algo: re-constitute AdminSettings.php if missing. It looks
- like this is the case for most 1.5.8 installs (check what the merges
- do in both directions). All 1.11.0 installs except four have
- the other (check diff -u with all in /root)
-
-- Make upgrade and install take version as a parameter
+- --retry option for install, so it won't complain about a directory already
+ being there.
+- 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:?
+- Document how to fix a broken upgrade
+- php.ini needs to get substituted!
+- Make wizard install accept appname-head (so that you can do a test with
+ head, and do things without tags). Also make it accept commit hashes.
+ In fact, let it accept any committish. Figure out what to do if we
+ do a test script with x.y.z when we REALLY mean x.y.z-scripts. XXX!!!
+- Do early validation of inputs for configuration
+- Let 'wizard configure' be interactive
+- Parse output HTML for class="error" and give those errors back to the user,
+ 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.
+
+- Replace gaierror with a more descriptive name (this is a DNS error)
+
+- 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)
-- Genericize callAsUser and drop_priviledges in shell
-- Summary script should be more machine friendly, and should not
- output summary charts when I increase specificity
-
-Some other stuff to do in your copious free time:
-- Summary script should do something intelligent when distinguishing
- between old-style and new-style installs
-- Check how many autoinstalls are missing w bits for
- daemon.scripts (this would need pyafs)
-- Make scripts AFS patch advertise its existence so we can check for it.
- (This might be otherwise possible using `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.
+- Web application for installing autoinstalls has a hard problem
+ with credentials (as well as installations that are not conducted
+ on an Athena machine.) Possible solutions include asking the user
+ to SSH into an athena machine and run a bunch of commands, or writing
+ a Java applet (possibly in Clojure or Scala) which gets filesystem
+ permissions and then performs the operations.
+
+- 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.
+ - 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
+ - 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
+ - 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
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.
-
COMMIT MESSAGE FIELDS:
Installed-by: username@hostname
NOTES:
-- It is not expected or required for update scripts to exist for all
+- 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.
also means that /mit/scripts/wizard/srv MUST NOT lose revs after
deployment.
-- Full fledged logging options. Namely:
- x all loggers (delay implementing this until we actually have debug stmts)
- - default is WARNING
- - debug => loglevel = DEBUG
- x stdout logger
- - default is WARNING (see below for exception)
- - verbose => loglevel = INFO
- x file logger (creates a dir and lots of little logfiles)
- - default is OFF
- - log-file => loglevel = INFO
-
OVERALL PLAN:
* Some parts of the infrastructure will not be touched, although I plan
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
- 1. Have the Git repository and working copy for the project on hand.
-
-/- wizard prepare-pristine --
-
-A 2. Checkout the pristine branch
-
-A 3. Remove all files from the working copy. Use `wipe-working-dir`
-
-A 4. Download the new tarball
-
-A 5. Extract the tarball over the working copy (`cp -R a/. b` works well,
- remember that the working copy is empty; this needs some intelligent
- input)
-
-A 6. Check for empty directories and add stub files as necessary.
- Use `preserve-empty-dir`
-
-\---
-
- 7. Git add it all, and then commit as a new pristine version (v1.2.3)
-
- 8. Checkout the master branch
-
- 9. [FOR EXISTING REPOSITORIES]
- Merge the pristine branch in. Resolve any conflicts that our
- patches have with new changes. Do NOT let Git auto-commit it
- with --no-commit (otherwise, you want to git commit --amend
- to keep our history clean
+ 1. [ see doc/upgrade.rst ]
- [FOR NEW REPOSITORIES]
- Check if any patches are needed to make the application work
- on Scripts (ideally, it shouldn't.
+ [ENTER HERE FROM CREATING A NEW REPO]
-/- wizard prepare-new --
+ 9. Push all of your changes in a public place, and encourage others
+ to test, using --srv-path and a full path.
- Currently not used for anything besides parallel-find.pl, but
- we reserve the right to place files in here in the future.
-
-A mkdir .scripts
-A echo "Deny from all" > .scripts/.htaccess
-
-\---
-
- 10. Check if there are any special update procedures, and update
- the wizard.app.APPNAME module accordingly (or create it, if
- need be).
-
- 11. Run 'wizard prepare-config' on a scripts server while in a checkout
- of this newest version. This will prepare a new version of the
- configuration file based on the application's latest installer.
- Manually merge back in any custom changes we may have made.
- Check if any of the regular expressions need tweaking by inspecting
- the configuration files for user-specific gunk, and modify
- wizard.app.APPNAME accordingly.
-
- 12. Commit your changes, and tag as v1.2.3-scripts (or scripts2, if
- you are amending an install without an upstream changes)
-
- NOTE: These steps should be run on a scripts server
-
- 13. Test the new update procedure using our test scripts. See integration
- tests for more information on how to do this.
-
- http://scripts.mit.edu/wizard/testing.html#acceptance-tests
-
- GET APPROVAL BEFORE PROCEEDING ANY FURTHER
+[ XXX: doc/deploy.rst ]
+ GET APPROVAL BEFORE PROCEEDING ANY FURTHER;
+ THIS IS PUSHING THE CHANGES TO THE PUBLIC
NOTE: The following commands are to be run on not-backward.mit.edu.
You'll need to add daemon.scripts-security-upd to
scripts-security-upd to get bits to do this. Make sure you remove
these bits when you're done.
-A 14. Run `wizard research appname`
+ 10. Run `wizard research appname`
which uses Git commands to check how many
working copies apply the change cleanly, and writes out a logfile
with the working copies that don't apply cleanly. It also tells
us about "corrupt" working copies, i.e. working copies that
have over a certain threshold of changes.
-A 15. Run `wizard mass-upgrade appname`, which applies the update to all working
- copies possible, and sends mail to users to whom the working copy
- did not apply cleanly.
+ 11. Run `wizard mass-upgrade appname`, which applies the update to all working
+ copies possible.
- 16. Run parallel-find.pl to update our inventory
+ 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:
- * Many applications had patches associated with them. Be sure to
- apply them, so later merges work better.
-
- # the following operation might require -p1
- patch -p0 < ../app-1.2.3/app-1.2.3.patch # [FIDDLY BIT]
-
- * When running updates, if the patch has changed you will have to
+ * When mass producing updates, if the patch has changed you will have to
do a special procedure for your merge:
git checkout pristine
You could also just try your luck with a manual merge using the patch
as your guide.
+[ XXX: doc/layout.rst ]
* The repository for a given application will contain the following files:
- The actual application's files, as from the official tarball
- A .scripts directory, with the intent of holding Scripts specific files
if they become necessary.
- * .scripts/lock (generated) which locks an autoinstall during upgrade
-
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