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 ;-)
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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).
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.
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Anyone fancy taking this on?
Dominic.
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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
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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.
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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!)
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Christopher Schmidt
Web Developer
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.
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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
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.
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