OpenGuides-Dev April 2006

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29 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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Beating linkspam by banning inline styles?
by Tom Heath 02 May '06

02 May '06

Hi all, We've had another one of the "[Some grammatical corrections]" spam attacks, this time on our homepage. It's only a single page again this time, but annoying. Seems others have suffered the same thing. Is one solution to this to strip inline styles from user input? (or at least stuff that manipulates height or visibility). crschmidt's SQL hack is nice, but still requires us to spot the attack and its identifying comment phrase. Banning these styles would make all links visible, which maybe isn't what we want, but may at least make it easier for us to spot and remove them. What do people think? Is this a useful strategy? How much work on the codebase would be involved? Cheers, Tom. (Open Guide to Milton Keynes).

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Categories box
by Earle Martin 02 May '06

02 May '06

How would people feel about switching the categories box to comma-separated rather than one-per-line? I think it would be a UI improvement. -- Earle Martin http://downlode.org/ http://purl.org/net/earlemartin/

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[nick@ccl4.org: Openguides and SoC 2006]
by Dominic Hargreaves 29 Apr '06

29 Apr '06

Anyone fancy taking this on? Dominic. ----- Forwarded message from Nicholas Clark <nick(a)ccl4.org> ----- Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 16:17:54 +0100 From: Nicholas Clark <nick(a)ccl4.org> To: dom(a)cpan.org Cc: Robert Spier <rspier(a)pobox.com> Subject: Openguides and SoC 2006 User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.3 We're trying to put together a list of good proposals for Google's 2006 Summer of Code. If you had a minion, er, student, to work on Openguides for 3 months, could they get useful stuff done? If so, could you put together a brief proposal suitable for adding to http://www.perl.org/advocacy/summerofcode/ideas.html ? Nick ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email)

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An OpenGuide for Reading
by Simon Huggins 29 Apr '06

29 Apr '06

Hi, I'd like to start an openguide site for Reading please. There used to be an old, unmaintained one with no content for Reading a while ago. Anyway, Dom says he'll host it so all I need to do is provide content and volunteers to help out which doesn't sound impossible. Anyone want to help? Dom asked me to post here in case there were any objections. PS your list software seems badly configured - I seem to get X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: headers with all the recipients in for posts from the list. -- ,--huggie-at-earth-dot-li--------stuff-thing-stuff----------DF5CE2B4--. _| "Bugs are nothing new, and nothing to be really afraid of." -- |_ | Linus | `- http://www.earth.li/~huggie/ - http://www.blackcatnetworks.co.uk/ -'

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Icons on maps
by Earle Martin 23 Apr '06

23 Apr '06

I've just been talking to Chris Schmidt about making shiny Google maps even shinier. If people could read the discussion at http://openguides.org/irc/logs/2006-04-23.xml#T19:10:13 I'd appreciate hearing any comments you have here on the list. Cheers, Earle. -- Earle Martin http://downlode.org/ http://purl.org/net/earlemartin/

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Mapping the Open Guide to Boston...
by Christopher Schmidt 22 Apr '06

22 Apr '06

Loaded places from Open Guide to Boston into postgresql/postgis database. (approx 10000) Made Mapserver talk to postgis database. Made mapserver talk to web mapping server at http://sigma.openplans.org/ Put it all together and what do you get? A map! http://boston.openguides.org/maps/boston-metro.png is a decent sized map, http://boston.openguides.org/maps/boston-metro-big.png is a 2000x1600 map, but that one looks cooler. Now tell me that ain't an advertisement for Free Data waiting to happen... (Thanks to the openplans folks for the WMS server! I'm loving it!) -- Christopher Schmidt Web Developer

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CC-EW 2.5
by Dominic Hargreaves 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

Hello, I noticed that Earle is moving London to CC-EW 2.0 (Creative Commons England and Wales). At the moment I have Oxford on CC 2.5 which includes a specific clause relating to collective attributions which is exactly the sort of thing we want for a wiki. I've also enquired about the appearance of CC-EW 2.5, being a regionalised version of CC 2.5. Apparently it should be up in a week or so. Earle, do you perhaps want to aim for this instead? Cheers, Dominic. -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email)

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open guide for montreal
by m.c. schraefel 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

WE've started an open guide for Montreal Canada at montreal.mspace.fm, slinging the mspace front end onto it. We're releasing it in conjunction with the CHI2006 conference being held next week in montreal, and have mashed it up with google maps, too. We hope you'll take a look at it and perhaps put a link to it on your site. Thanks mc

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OpenGuides 0.53 released
by Dominic Hargreaves 21 Apr '06

21 Apr '06

OpenGuides 0.53 has been released, with minor updates. It is available from your favourite CPAN mirror, or http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/computing/code/openguides/OpenGuides-0.53.tar… or, indeed, http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/debian/openguides/. md5sum: ee0ee2696c3330aab5d426d368414232 OpenGuides-0.53.tar.gz (files in this distribution are also signed with cpansign; run "cpansign -v" to verify.) Changelog: 0.53 20 April 2006 Miscellanous fixes for mod_perl. #42 New "About" screen. Try action=about and action=about;format=rdf. #97 Use "summary" metadata to generate HTML meta descriptions. New OpenGuides::Feed module to handle feed generation (code was previously in OpenGuides::RDF). Generate URIs for locales and contributors in RDF output. #107 Don't display partial http:// URL in preview. #93 Upgrade to new Google Maps API (for smaller javascript download) #103 Fix empty Category/Locale list bug. #54 Fix RSS redirection for backwards compatibility. #79 Partial fix to help combat HTML spam #56 Add licence config variables This release was largely made possible by my employer, Black Cat Networks <http://www.blackcatnetworks.co.uk/>, who sponsored my work for the day. Regards, Dominic. -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email)

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