Note that pylons.wsgiapp uses pylons.i18n's get_lang()
and friends, instead of our modified versions in
r2.lib.translation. This means that setting 'lang' in the
conf causes it to try and 'help' us by looking up PO files
in r2/i18n. Changing the ini files to use 'site_lang' as the
key gets around that.
* Upgrade flot and include the new timeseries flot plugin.
(flot/flot@ca050b26c2)
* All times mentioned by traffic are now in UTC, not "local."
* Traffic data is generated as actual tables and JavaScript
generates the Flot charts from the tables for accessibility.
* Many pieces of traffic data that were only accessible from the
old traffic app are now moved into the reddit app.
* Traffic backend lag time is indicated on the graphs for clarity.
* Use excanvas with Flot instead of Google Charts for old-IE fallback.
Static file mangling now renames files to their mangled form and
symlinks the original name. This cleanup rule deleted only the mangled
names, leaving broken symlinks. The quick'n'dirty solution is to clear
out all of the mangled and unmangled filenames so we don't leave things
in an inconsistent state.
Currently results in a ~10% decrease in sprite file size.
This required some tweaks to the way some sprites were clipped
since there's no longer a huge amount of padding around them,
these changes incidentally fix the issues with other sprites
showing up where they shouldn't when text ran too long etc.
* spreadshirt support which was discontinued in 1684da9 (Jun 2010)
* old socialite page css
* image preload markup
* lipstick.com, frame.css, and wired comments css
* "reddit is down" page
Login UI code has been simplified and moved into the client side. CORS
is used for the cross-domain POST if available, otherwise an iframe and
cookie polling technique is used. Start fleshing out the new JS tree. :)
When make is run, unique filenames are generated for JavaScript and CSS
files in /public/static/. Filenames are generated by appending a 64 bit
truncated SHA1 hash in websafe base64 format before the extension. The
filename mapping is stored in /public/static/names.json. Unique
filenames are now inserted by the static() template helper. Hashed
filenames can be served by Pylons, and hashed names are checked against
the names.json mapping when requested.
* Show "this post is archived" message for things we won't allow votes on.
* Don't mark messages read when pulled via RSS
* Make compact (smartphone) interface respect user's toolbar
* preferences.
* Make mobile interface more friendly for kindles.
* Fix bug that caused comment tree corruption.
* Use cachebuster on traffic pixel for more accurate tracking.
* Make apps restart themselves after a configurable number of requests.
* Move to pycassa 1.0.8.
* Fix bug in calculations for "best" sort.
* Fixes for Firefox Mobile
* Add a global flag to disable editing of the wiki.
* Move the child-comment collapse button to the left.
* Updated list of disallows in robots.txt to save needless hits from
crawlers.
* Fix vote_q by splitting it into vote_link_q and vote_comment_q.
* Fix bug where /reddits crashes due to 'promos' subreddit.
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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.
