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* Uninstall the python Cassandra package that we previously depended on (it has a namespace conflict with the new package we depend on). To find it:
$ python -c "import cassandra; print cassandra.__file__"
and rm -r the .egg directory after "site-packages/"
* This version relies on cython, so if "make" fails, you may have to install cython via your distro's package manager.
$ cd reddit/r2
$ python setup.py develop # possibly with "sudo" depending on your install
$ make
* Cassandra is now required for the caching layer. An example storage-conf.xml can be found in reddit/srv/cassandra. Make sure that the additional <Keyspace> items are included in your conf file.
* remove the query_queue_reader services if they are running. add new gen_time_listings.sh instead. Suggested cron:
0 */2 * * * $SCRIPTS/gen_time_listings.sh year '("month","year")'
*/5 * * * * $SCRIPTS/gen_time_listings.sh week '("day","week")'
* * * * * $SCRIPTS/gen_time_listings.sh hour '("hour",)'
where $SCRIPTS is the location of this script directory
Features and Bugfixes
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* Mobile reddit:
* templates are in r2/templates of the form *.compact
* css is r2/public/static/css/compact.css
* beginning of a sass-based (http://sass-lang.com/) compact.scss
* reachable via .compact extension or from the "i" subdomain.
* Cassandra is now *required*, and votes are currently written out to both cassandra and postgres (part of an eventual migration).
* attempt to make the db connection code a little smarter.
* A dropped DB connection will mark the connection dead and randomly attempt to reconnect.
* A dropped db connection on start will permanently mark the connection as dead.
* Calculate the time-filtered top/controversy listings using mapreduce instead of prec_links (new cron job in reddit/scripts)
* allow default user/pass for database to be specified with '*' to fallback on db_user and db_pass in the INI file
* Search feedback buttons
* make deleted comments not show up in your inbox.
* move last_visited into cassandra
* Swallow rare, race-conditiony POST_save/hide/subscribe problems
* Apparently we haven't been breaking properly for the past few weeks.
* The error pages have been broken for the past week.
* Fix /r/all+all
* Provides about.json to the api for subreddits (it already works for users)
* Make sure Accounts have data before checking their name and msgtime
* new bigger arrows for mobile site and a the alien is fingerless now
* Try to update the _fast_query_timestamps less often to alleviate some of the load it causes on the Accounts DB
* Swallow rare, race-conditiony POST_save/hide/subscribe problems
* Two new 404 aliens
* enable a comment page cache if the user isn't author of any of the comments and the page is a non-permalink. votes and friends are updated by javascript
Additions
* descriptive example.ini
* create "trusted_sponsor" who get auto-accepted
* split off url cache from the permacache, with major clean-up to app_globals
* Move is_banned_domain() call into POST_submit() so it can take the sanitized url
* Redirect /r/asdfasdfasdf to the search page, not the create page.
* updates to draw_load.py
* orangered envelope goes to unread, not all.
* Remove "enable whitelisting" checkbox, and switch to new failiens
* Put verification link on email prefs page
Bugfixes:
* split off a minimal api controller for onload calls (which don't care about c.site or c.user, making them cheaper)
* Assume admins want to keep their cookies forever just like everyone else
* /randomrising bugfix
* JSON error page was rendering in html. it now returns "{ error: ${code} }"
* Cassandra
* Add new cassandra libraries that we'll need to setup.py
* Select Cassandra seeds at random rather than in order
* Bugfix in CassandraCache.delete and a faster permacache migration function
* Like other caches, CassandraCaches need to be able to take (and ignore) a 'time' parameter
* add Cassandra to the permacache chain
* beginning of jury duty (later called deputy moderation)
Additions:
* Make /r/friends much cheaper at the expense of sorting
* Add Jury.delete_old(), which removes Account-Trial relations > 3 days old
* Make the pretty_button() template function's callback optional, so that
actionless pretty-buttons can be used on the admin details page
* make .embed listings work for permalink pages (think of this as a first pass to getting blog comments working). Adds 'limit' and 'depth' parameter to permalink pages
* Added final redditheader.html pretty-button class
* new iframe ads; also make button.js static
* Usage sampling
Bugfixes:
* Stop adding batched time query recalculations to the queue at all except through the catch_up_batch_queries function
* Superflous comma might be causing IE7 to barf
* Change the byurl keys again, to fit in memcaches 251 character limit
* Indentation error causing non-sponsors to be able to get to the advert listing
* Move to a custom build of pylibmc that doesn't hold the GIL during blocking operations
* Convert some cache.gets to cache.get_multis, and implement our own thread-safety around pylibmc's client
* Make search caching a little smarter for time searches
* Make the ads not be cached for 30 seconds each, ie. more random
* fix deleted things on profile pages
* Discount 1.6.1
* Lines beginning with spaces are considered code. I don't know why markdown.py didn't trigger this.
* tables in mark down: why not?
* validation of resulting HTML vial libxml to prevent hax.
* private RSS and JSON feeds
* optional whitelists for subreddits
* Moderator messaging
Additions:
* destination sanitization to cut down on XSRF
* cosmetic fix to spam and reported listing
* make the rss feeds on messages useful
* /admin/errors
* Of the types of listings hitting the precomputers (top/controversy by hour/day/week/month/year), the ones over long periods of time don't change often. So we can try to run them at most once per day, and then merge in the day's listings.
* google analytics
* logging queue
* Created empty commentspanel.xml, errorpage.xml, login.xml
* add subreddit rules/info box to submit page
* add 'via' link on messages in moderator inbox
* add a show=all get parameter to link listings to optionally ignore hiding preferences.
* Raise edited timelimit to three mins
* Remove UI that makes it look like you can edit deleted selftexts
* Make it clearer to admins when a link is deleted
* Fix [S] leak on deleted comments
* Fix /user/[deleted] misrendering
* New house ads system
* updated so that minimalcontrollers actually can use the page cache.
* Added /admin/usage
Bugfixes:
* Reduce the number of results that we request from Solr and simplify that caching a bit
* Require a secret key to shut down app-servers
* Make get_title a little more resilient to malformed documents and slow remote servers
* Cause the SearchBuilder to only byID the results that it's going to render instead of all 1000
* Remove ability for an author to XSS himself
* fix spam listings and an xsrf
* More verbose VDestination
* Fixing the famous ?limit=0.1 error, and one last password-validation one
* distinguish deleted comments' and deleted links' error messages
* Don't allow ridiculously long log lines to widen the page
* Bug with HardCache.add() when existing key is expired
* Add adminbox next to domain
