X-Git-Url: https://scripts.mit.edu/gitweb/wizard.git/blobdiff_plain/f977623a4a5278fb360c43e8e2abc4c97c7b71cb..HEAD:/TODO diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index fc2a0de..adea7d3 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -1,20 +1,101 @@ -The Git Autoinstaller - -TODO NOW: - -- MediaWiki 1.9.3 and 1.6.7 - -- If no newlines at all, DON'T CARE (don't rewrite the file again!) -- Plugin-ify! -- Check for improper use of os.exists() when os.lexists() was meant - -- Add support for mypristine workflow -- 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. +- 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. @@ -25,22 +106,25 @@ TODO NOW: - 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 -- 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. +- [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. -- 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; 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 + - util.fetch() should use urllib under the hood, not httplib. Code + has to be changed. We should log if we get redirected. - 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` @@ -57,14 +141,14 @@ TODO NOW: 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: +- [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. + - 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. + - Whatever happens here should be used to improve user.email() [ XXX: metadata.rst ]