OpenGuides-Dev December 2004

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36 discussions

[OpenGuides-Dev] OG performance
by Paul Makepeace 20 Jun '07

20 Jun '07

Hi, I don't follow OG development but as host operator a few things are coming up. The machine's load is gradually climbing over time and some of that is OG. Despite a relatively low hit rate on OG it is consuming quite a bit of resource. If OG started taking off it would take the machine down. First up: index.cgi requires 0.35s to perform a `perl -c` syntax check. Any thoughts on putting OG on a mod_perl server? I have mod_perl running here of course and we'd need to coordinate some apache.conf stuff. Second: the supersearch.cgi gulps down CPU, often for seconds at a time. It is a frequent resident of `top` output. This isn't really acceptable. I'm going to request this feature be turned off unless an effective optimisation plan or some other way to reduce its impact here is constructed pretty soon. Sorry about this but it's encroaching on others. Third: I wonder if there's some way to instruct robots not to spider parts of your wiki. This ought to speak for itself: $ grep crawl /var/log/apache/london.openguides.org-access.log | grep 'action=edit' | wc -l 8242 $ Finally: I posted about a DoS and was wondering what the status of a solution was. http://openguides.org/mail/openguides-dev/2004-October/000542.html Cheers, Paul (any overbearing tone unintentional ;-) -- Paul Makepeace .............................. http://paulm.com/inchoate/ "If my elbow was straight, then I'll show oyu mine!" -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

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[OpenGuides-Dev] Hackfest cat-herding
by Earle Martin 10 Jan '05

10 Jan '05

So then. It looks like we weren't able to sort it out for this month, so let's do the get-together-and-hack-on-stuff thing this January, 2005. How about the last weekend of the month (Sat 29/Sun 30)? BTW - if it's to be at my place, we can accomodate one overnight (or two if they share a futon!) - first come, first served. Reply here if you're up for it. Cheers, Earle. -- Earle Martin http://downlode.org/ http://purl.oclc.org/net/earlemartin/

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[OpenGuides-Dev] A few formatting issues
by James Green 09 Jan '05

09 Jan '05

Hi all, and a Merry Christmas! I've been fiddling about with the layout of nottingham.og.o, and have a few minor issues with the templates I'd like to bring up: * It appears there is no div that covers all the actual content of a node; the 'content' div seems to include the navbar as well. Is this intentional? For what I was hoping to do with the layout, these being separate divs would probably be really useful -- either for the content div to stop including the navbar, or for some other div to be created including the rest of the content div, after the navbar. * There are two search boxes on every page (navbar, footer). Would it be easy to add a config option to not have one of them, or just lose the footer one altogether, or something? I think the one in the navbar is more immediately visible, so I'd probably prefer to keep that one. (There's probably also an argument for a special one in home_node.tt somewhere, for guides which have no navbar on the front page, or something.) * The Recent Changes box on the front page looks quite cluttered, and is bigger than I'd like; one solution to this would be to lose most of it, just retaining the node names, and maybe the marker proposed in <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=9068>. But, I realise some guides might want the full version of this box, as it stands. So I suggest a new config option (yes, I know, another question at install time...) called something like minimal_recent_changes which can then be used in the templates to remove the 'fluff' from this box as appropriate. I'm also not convinced of the point of the "edit this page" link in the recent changes box, but I assume that's there for a reason I've not thought of yet! As another alternative, could the recent changes front page box be made optional altogether? I assume this would be relatively easy to do, and I think this is if anything a _more_ useful option than the navbar being optional. There's probably other stuff, but it's 3am. I'll follow up to this message next week, no doubt :-) Cheers, James. -- jkg((-.+)?@(|the\.)earth.li|@(jimbo|wonky)\.org\.uk|03u@cs\.nott\.ac\.uk) A celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.

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[OpenGuides-Dev] Text formatting help
by Earle Martin 02 Jan '05

02 Jan '05

New, tidier: http://openguides.org/page/text_formatting Associated wishlist item: https://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=9117 -- Earle Martin http://downlode.org/ http://purl.oclc.org/net/earlemartin/

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[OpenGuides-Dev] Charset support improvement
by Dominic Hargreaves 02 Jan '05

02 Jan '05

One of the recurring themes with using OpenGuides is that it doesn't do a particularly good or consistent job of allowing people to use charsets other than iso-8859-1. I've made a page on the wiki: http://openguides.org/dev/?node=Character%20Sets which hopefully sets out what problems there are and how to solve them. Please hack on that wiki page with additions and corrections, and/or make comments on list. Once we have a clear plan of how to proceed we'll need someone to implement it, too :) If you are regularly dealing with non iso-8859-1 charsets at the moment, then your input is especially valuable here. Cheers, Dominic.

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[OpenGuides-Dev] making life easier for machines
by Jo Walsh 31 Dec '04

31 Dec '04

hello, i've been working on this service which builds a splash page for wireless access points from aggregated local information. (which right now, is just the open guide to london.) http://space.frot.org/splash/splash/?node=25609 is a quite broken but hopefully evocative demo of what i am talking about, this will be fixed soon. we are hoping to get earle involved in making better integration so we can support openguides, in the new year. we have been talking about what this might involve and as a byproduct of that i have been dreaming about more of a machine interface to openguides. - there are a lot of places in which i can append format=rdf to a URI and see a nice model. didn't there used to be a RSS feed for recent changes? if http://london.openguides.org/index.cgi?id=RecentChanges&format=rdf included timestamped listings for the changes, that would be good. i am positing this while running a syndication service as a client, so a time-based query function - 'show me changes since time t [within area a]' would also make a lot of sense. - There's also a 'show me things within n metres of here' function, and it would be spiffy to have an rdf/xml version of those results. - better inference about types of things described by pages would make interesting things possible. on the SF guide for a while i experimented with using categories to create wordnet terms for rdf type - e.g. the referent of a page in category 'Bar' becomes a wn:Bar then you could have type-based queries within OG - 'show me all things of type foo near here' - though you could do this currently, i suppose, with the category system. on the receiver end, i could filter results without resorting to kludges - e.g. i have a list of n nearby objects and go through them running a regular expression on each dc:subject, ugh it would be nice to publish an informal ontology based on user-created place types, and what you can correlate from wordnet. i was experimenting with this, but just too much like yakshaving right at the minute. Anyway i am hoping to persuade earle to work on something like this and i wonder what the dev community thinks of it. Also handwavingly wondering about collaborative filtering; of a foaf-based service which allows you to outsource recommendations; whether this is asking for trouble; it's probably worth starting to think about? zx

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[OpenGuides-Dev] Index corrupt
by Rev Simon Rumble 29 Dec '04

29 Dec '04

I've had some wikispam and when I go to delete it I get: Sorry! Something went wrong. Please contact the Wiki administrator at openguide(a)rumble.net and quote the following error message: Search::InvertedIndex::remove_index_from_group() - Corrupted database. Unable to find 'ged_000000000000_c_000000000a9f' record at /usr/share/perl5/CGI/Wiki/Search/SII.pm line 143 Return to the Wiki home page When I run reindex.pl, I get this: simon@stout:/etc/openguides/default$ sudo ./reindex.pl Reindexed 30 St Mary Axe Reindexed 99 Notre Dame Avenue, San Jose Reindexed Bletchley Park Reindexed Brogo Dam Reindexed Brogo Rotolactor Reindexed CN Tower Reindexed Category Accidents Reindexed Category Architecture Reindexed Category Botany Reindexed Category Bridges Reindexed Category Category Reindexed Category Communications Reindexed Category Computers Reindexed Category Dams Reindexed Category Espionage Search::InvertedIndex::remove_index_from_group() - Corrupted database. Unable tofind 'ged_000000000001_c_0000000000ba' record at /usr/share/perl5/CGI/Wiki/Search/SII.pm line 138 Erm, how do I recover then eh? -- Rev Simon Rumble <simon(a)rumble.net> www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Nerds need vacations too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours. - Harry S. Truman

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[OpenGuides-Dev] New Open Guide City Request
by Indra Tjahjono 29 Dec '04

29 Dec '04

Dear Developer, First of all I would like to say Thank you for a great software. I would like to setup open guide to my city, which is Jakarta - Indonesia. Right now I am in the process of installing openguides to my server. What do I need to provides? and Is it possible to have a subdomain under openguides, such as jakarta.openguides.org ? Thank you -- Indra PT. Verinux Linux System "Technology in a smart way" http://www.verinux.com

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[OpenGuides-Dev] Vegan Oxford is majorly spammed
by Rev Simon Rumble 24 Dec '04

24 Dec '04

There's a helluva lot of wiki spam on that site. :( -- Rev Simon Rumble <simon(a)rumble.net> www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because nerds travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ "TV is chewing gum for the eyes." - Frank Lloyd Wright

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[OpenGuides-Dev] IRC logs
by Earle Martin 24 Dec '04

24 Dec '04

...are now live. http://openguides.org/irc/logs/ -- Earle Martin http://downlode.org/ http://purl.oclc.org/net/earlemartin/

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