This is a rewrite of much of the code related to voting. Some of the
improvements include:
- Detangling the whole process of creating and processing votes
- Creating an actual Vote class to use instead of dealing with
inconsistent ad-hoc voting data everywhere
- More consistency with naming and other similar things like vote
directions (previously had True/False/None in some places,
1/-1/0 in others, etc.)
- More flexible methods in determining and applying the effects of votes
- Improvement of modhash generation/validation
- Removing various obsolete/unnecessary code
http://pylons-webframework.readthedocs.org/en/latest/upgrading.html
This requires several code changes:
* pylons `config` option must be explicitly passed during setup
* the pylons global has been renamed from `g` to `app_globals`
* the pylons global has been renamed from `c` to `tmpl_context`
* set pylons.strict_tmpl_context = False (instead of pylons.strict_c)
* redirect_to() has been swapped for redirect()
* must implement `ErrorDocuments` middleware ourselves
pylons 1.0 also required an upgrade of routes from 1.11 to 1.12. This
required the following changes:
* set Mapper.minimization = True (the default value changed)
* set Mapper.explicit = False (the default value changed)
Separate search logic into provider system. Move existing logic into a
cloudsearch implementation of a search provider, and add a Solr
implementation of a search provider.
Create an event collector library that allows reddit code to dump
event-collector[1] events to a queue, and a queue consumer that will
batch those up to send to the event-collector.
[1] https://github.com/reddit/event-collector
This is a new feature available only to Gold members. It defaults to on,
but may be turned off in preferences. When a username is mentioned on
the site in the /u/username format, and some conditions apply, the user
is notified by an orangered and a new type of item in the inbox. There
are several cases where notifications won't occur to reduce noise, see
butler.py for details.
