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carlosok, I detected an error in my code, reruning the tests ...12:05
dafwhat was the problem?12:12
carlosdaf: a cosmetic change I did12:16
carlosit broke the python syntaxis12:16
carlosand seems like I forgot to test it12:16
carlosthe tests work now12:17
dafah, good :)12:17
dafyou'll be submitting a merge request, then?12:17
carlosbut it's weird that it caused that big problem...12:17
carlosyes12:17
carlosrequest sent12:22
dilysMerge to rocketfuel@canonical.com/launchpad--devel--0: Preliminar po/pot import from the web and added a missing FROM (patch-916)12:32
carlosdaf: there you have12:32
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carlosdaf: do you need anything from me?12:33
dafnot right now12:33
dafthanks12:33
carlosok12:33
carlosdaf: I know that the current code does not catchs any error. It's a know "feature" ;-)12:34
carlosI planned to fix it tonight, but the test error took more time that it should12:34
carlos /s/that/than/12:34
dafdo we have a bug open for it?12:36
dilysMerge to rocketfuel@canonical.com/launchpad--devel--0: add a confirmation message showing bug id after adding a bug (fixes #94) (patch-917)01:05
dilysMalone bug #94 fixed for package malone: No confirmation of bug ID or success when a bug is filed01:11
dilyshttps://dogfood.ubuntu.com/malone/bugs/9401:11
Kinnison<transformation type="pumpkin"/>01:50
KinnisonNight all01:50
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lifelessmorning09:14
lifelessstub: hey hey hey09:14
lifelessproduction update time ?09:14
stubeh?09:14
lifelessAre there any pending db changes for production? I need to pick a bunch of code updates, would be easier to do a full drop than cherry pick.09:15
stubJust the Karma table and some Rosetta po-whatsit table constraints. 09:16
lifelessso,.. shall we ?09:17
stubUnless the production code needs those changes (doubtful), I'd rather leave the production database at the same patchlevel.09:17
lifelessso, I don't know if the production code will be affected. in production we hae project, product, buttress, sourcesources, so anything theat the UI touches from there will be impacted.09:18
lifelessanyway, you pung.09:20
stubShouldn't be a problem with the tables I mentioned. However - are you using the Z3 auto generated forms, and in particular any of the 'popup' widgets (select-a-person, select-a-product,select-a-sourcepackage)09:20
stub(If so, a rollout will be more difficult because the current trunk has a load of full text stuff with scarey database changes, as well as needing a new .deb installed on emperor)09:21
lifelessah. ok, I'll cherry pick the specific commits I need.09:22
SteveAstub: did you see Kinnison's problems with the locale of the full text seach stuff ?09:22
SteveAstub: also, how's the deployment of roundup going?09:23
stubI know nothing about Kinnison's problems09:23
stubI haven't heard back from Elmo re: somewhere to install roundup09:24
lifelessroundup ??09:24
stubissue tracker until we develop our own09:25
lifelesslike malone ?09:25
lifelessor bugzilla ?09:25
stubmalone is a bug tracker09:25
lifelessso - you pinged me for something ?09:26
stubI was wondering about the cacherevs in the rocketfuel archive and mirroring (in particular, there appear to be two undocumented options in 'baz archive-mirror' that would speed up mirroring). Also about how baz determines what archive format to use, since 'baz make-archive --mirror-from' appears to use tla-format.09:27
lifelessbaz make-archive should be creating baz format. does for me.09:30
lifelessdpkg -l bazaar ?09:30
stubii  bazaar         1.0            arch revision control system09:31
stub(updated from own-built today, as per launchpad@ instructions)09:31
lifelessok. cat .archive-version for the new archive you've made 09:32
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stubYup - your are right. I repeated the procedure and the .archive-version is baz this time. User error.09:38
SteveAstub: Kinnison was getting an error "ERROR: Can't find tsearch config by locale".  I think this is because postgres was running with the locale en_GB.09:56
SteveAstub: the error is described here.  http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/gist/tsearch/V2/docs/tsearch-V2-intro.html09:56
stubOn a side note, you seem to get all sorts of crazy things happening if you don't run PostgreSQL as locale C (since it starts using locale aware sorting'n'stuff and things go all pear shaped)09:59
dafisn't it the encoding that makes more difference than the language?10:00
stubencoding describes the stored data, so PostgreSQL can validate that the data is correct (yes - this is valid UTF8), and convert to whatever encoding the client requests.10:03
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stubThe locale alters the results of functions like sort (I think )10:04
stubSo those crazy germans get their stuff sorted the way they like it10:04
stubI'll need to go into more depth on this - consensus seems to be 'stick to locale C, and this should have really been the default even if your system locale is set differently', so the fix might be to enforce that rather than have the tsearch2 gumf cope with different locales10:07
stub(It crops up on the mailing lists regularly, with the normal end result being some poor sod has to blow away their database, recreate and reload from backup10:07
dafwon't a UTF-8 locale use Unicode collation order, though?10:07
stubDifferent locales sort the same string differently - in particular, german collates a-z differently to english locales10:08
dafah10:09
dafwell, as long as the shared testing/production databases uses the correct locale, we shouldn't have any problem, right?10:10
stubUsing different locales introduces a new variable into the unit tests.10:11
dafoh, of course10:12
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KinnisonMorning10:45
dilysMerge to rocketfuel@canonical.com/launchpad--devel--0: page template improvements; add page template title check (patch-918)10:45
elmoBradB: ?10:53
Kinnisonbrad is unlikely to be around until ca. 12.3010:54
KinnisonSo, anyone here know lots about our use of sqlobject and can tell me where to find an example of how to join two tables where table B has a column A which is a foreign key to A's id column?11:32
spiv_pantsKinnison: I can probably answer that.11:35
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Kinnison    sources = MultipleJoin('DistroReleaseQueueSource')11:44
Kinnison    builds = MultipleJoin('DistroReleaseQueueBuild')11:44
Kinnisonlook right?11:44
spiv_pantsYep.11:45
spiv_pantsSorry, getting distracted by my home ADSL being down :/11:45
kikomorning11:45
spiv_pantsYou can do TableB.select("TableB.columnA = TableA.id", clauseTables=[TableA] )11:47
Kinnisonbeing able to get at queueitem.sources will do me nicely :-)11:48
SteveAspiv_pants: tell me about how shipit is going11:55
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KinnisonMorning cprov 11:57
kikohey celsn11:58
Kinnisoncprov: with respect to the 'performance' angle, we can store a view in the database to extract all the information we want from the logevents table11:58
cprovKinnison: kiko: morning 12:03
Kinnisoncprov: another comment. Make the table name singular since the class name in the app will be the table name and an instance of the class is a single row of the table12:04
Kinnisoncprov: In general table names should be singular12:04
kikoKinnison, uhhhh, that's not agreed upon12:04
Kinnisonkiko: No?12:04
cprovKinnison: of course we can, but views cannot perform miracles :), anyway I understand your point12:04
kikoin my book (SQL FOR SMARTIES) tables are always plural. 12:05
Kinnisoncprov: Hopefully the indexes can perform the miracles12:05
kikoI'm just contesting the "in general" portion12:05
kikoyou could say "in launchpad" and I could agree12:05
Kinnisonkiko: I was thinking "in general within the company" okay, "in launchpad...."12:05
cprovKinnison: about the singular table name, in our context, I agree12:06
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Kinnisonkiko: You prefer plural table names?12:06
spiv_pantsSteveA: Well.  The script to sync up ids in the shipit db to the launchpad db is close to working as well as it can.  That leaves the tool to make the report scripts continue to work as the only other major task.12:06
kikoKinnison, yes, certainly12:07
spiv_pantsRight at this second I'm frustrated by my home DSL suddenly being down (I'm at jdub's atm).12:07
kikoand joe celko knows better12:07
Kinnisonkiko: I can see arguments either way on the plural vs. singular argument12:07
=== Kinnison has always used singular and personally believes it to be more correct
SteveAspiv_pants: what about the shipit code?  what about having a "new shipit alpha test" server running on mawson?12:07
SteveAsingular singular singular12:08
spiv_pantsThe shipit code is looking good.12:08
spiv_pantsMy testing has run out of problems.12:08
KinnisonSteveA: glad we agree on this :-)12:08
Kinnisonspiv_pants: you're not testing hard enough then :-)12:08
SteveAspiv_pants: I want to see a demonstration of it running on mawson.  That way, mako and jane and lu can use it12:08
cprovKinnison: any other remarks on "Log System" ? 12:09
spiv_pantsSteveA: Agreed.12:09
SteveAspiv_pants: now?12:09
kikoKinnison, cprov: did you make any headway into getting the publishing tables merged?12:09
SteveAkiko, Kinnison: it really depends if you see a table as a collection of things or as representing a class of things.  Collections can be either singular or plural; plural if they are "countable" things, singular if they are things that you'd commonly refer to by quantity.  Classes of things should always be singular.12:11
Kinnisonkiko: merged?12:11
KinnisonSteveA: I always see a table as a class. But then I'm off the OO school of database design12:12
kiko(which is crackheaded)12:12
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kikoKinnison, well, yes. we want to fix the status section of sourcepackage.12:12
lifelessnope, few do.12:12
SteveABecause we are writing an OO application with a relational storage, then our tables "serve" the application, and should be named with the singular. 12:12
Kinnisonkiko: Eh?12:12
SteveAthere is much more code in the application than in the database or in database queries.12:13
Kinnisonlifeless: Which I think is a pity :-)12:13
cprovkiko: merged ? do you mean the [DBA]  request ? there's nothing to merge yet 12:13
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KinnisonSteveA: I'd rather you didn't. I use both12:14
Kinnisonlu.12:14
kikoKinnison, well. 12:14
dilysMerge to thelove@canonical.com/bazaar--devo--1.0: merge in brown-paper bag baz archive format support (patch-70)12:14
kikoKinnison, never mind. I was hoping we had a schema laid down for publishing that could be merged at this point..12:16
Kinnisonkiko: the publishing schema is already fairly much done12:16
Kinnisonkiko: Or do you mean inheritance policy?12:16
SteveAKinnison: it is simple really.  Everyone should be using emacs.  Except when using vi.  Unless they're using both at once.12:16
KinnisonSteveA: oooh *illuminated*12:17
kikoI am not really sharp on the details of what is necessary schema-wise (your master plan is obscure to me) but I *would* like us to be able to say that source package A has release X pending12:17
KinnisonYou don't know what you mean by "pending" though12:17
KinnisonI can tell, because noone knows yet12:17
KinnisonThis is one of the things we need to discuss very early in Mataro12:17
kikowe're on the same page :)12:17
KinnisonAll I do know is that inheritance policy is very very different from publishing12:18
Kinnisonpending is not and will never be in the publishing tables12:18
kikocan you afford giving me the "dummy" explanation?12:18
kikothese terms are just collections of letters to me with no semantic12:18
Kinnisonvisit https://wiki.canonical.com/Lucille_2fBraindump12:19
kikothat's not the dummy explanation hopefully12:19
Kinnisonsearch for "Thoughts on the derivative distro process"12:19
kikoI've visited it a number of times12:19
Kinnisonthen read "Derivative distro crack"12:19
Kinnisonand "Use cases for Derivative distributions"12:19
KinnisonThat is all I know about it because that's the results of talking with sabdfl about it :-)12:20
kikoI don't *entirely* grasp why this is a problem for "pending". is it the point that you can not tell if a certain distro will *inherit* a certain package from another?12:21
kikookay, here's a concrete question that is "dummies"12:21
kikodoes the upload system handle uploads of packages to specific distros?12:21
KinnisonAn upload is zero or one sources plus zero or more binary package builds uploaded to a distrorelease (and plausibly a distroarchrelease within that distrorelease)12:22
kikookay.12:23
kikoso if you upload a package to a certain distro, is that package not in some visible status "pre-pending, pre-approval, etc"?12:23
stubKinnison: OO databases will always be fringe tech until a standard query language is standardized and widely adopted. The closest I'm aware to this goal is Enterprise Java Beans.12:23
Kinnisonwhen a package is uploaded it does into the queue as "unchecked"12:24
Kinnisonwhen the package passes preliminary checks it moves into either "accepted" or "new" (or various other states which are unimportant right now)12:24
Kinnisonan upload in "accepted" gets published and passes into "done"12:24
kikoKinnison, would it be reasonable to display "unchecked" on a package page?12:25
KinnisonThat transition happens within a single run of the queue12:25
KinnisonIf you really want to work through the queue for a distrorelease then sure.12:25
KinnisonIMO it's pretty pointless though12:25
kikois it pointless giving feedback that a package is still  unchecked in the queue?12:25
cprovKinnison: let's have a real case, I'm an pkg uploader, how can I keep track of my just-uploaded package ? tell me the steps til it becomes a current Ubuntu-Hoary-i386 package12:25
Kinnisonkiko: You can display packages in the publishing tables in "Pending" state12:26
kikoAN ANSWER!12:26
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Kinnisonkiko: That means that the package has been accepted into the distrorelease (I.E. is for publishing) but has yet to be published into the distro12:27
KinnisonBut currently there's no way to know if a package is pending acceptance into a distrorelease12:27
KinnisonE.g. from inheritance or a fresh upload12:27
KinnisonOkay, so my multiple joins fail12:29
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Kinnisonnup :-(12:29
Kinnison    sources = MultipleJoin('DistroReleaseQueueSource')12:30
Kinnison    builds = MultipleJoin('DistroReleaseQueueBuild')12:30
Kinnisonwhat is wrong with those?12:30
KinnisonThey cause:12:30
KinnisonAttributeError: 'LaunchpadStyle' object has no attribute 'tableReference'12:30
Kinnisonhttps://chinstrap.warthogs.hbd.com/~dsilvers/queue.py is the entire file12:31
Kinnisonvery very very simple stuff12:31
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kikoKinnison, could we handle the upload 50% at this point?12:33
Kinnisonkiko: ?12:34
kiko<Kinnison> But currently there's no way to know if a package is pending acceptance into a distrorelease12:35
kiko<Kinnison> E.g. from inheritance or a fresh upload12:35
kikocould we handle at least the upload case?12:35
Kinnisonkiko: assume I am a small child and need things explaining to me. What do you mean by "handle the upload 50% at this point" ?12:35
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Kinnisonsorry for the noise12:36
kikowell12:36
kikodid I misread the comments you made above?12:37
kikoKinnison, it would clarify a lot if you exercised answering cprov's question..12:37
KinnisonThe database can represent uploads, yes12:37
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Kinnisongive me a moment to commit this pqm merge12:38
cprovKinnison: btw, haven't you defined the joinColumn=' ' on MultipleJoin ?12:39
Kinnisoncprov: see my utterance from 5 minutes ago ;-)12:41
KinnisonRight, okay, please bear with me as I go through this process..12:41
Kinnison1. Ubuntu developer builds the source package12:41
Kinnison2. Ubuntu developer uploads it to the lucille upload server12:42
Kinnison3. this triggers the UploadHandler to take the new upload; validate it and import it into the database and librarian.12:42
Kinnison4. This creates a queue/unchecked entry for the upload12:42
KinnisonThat is the upload process12:42
KinnisonThen we have the queue process12:42
Kinnison1. queue/unchecked is checked and validated.12:42
Kinnison2. The accepted item is moved to queue/accepted12:43
Kinnison3. queue/accepted items have their publishing records made and marked 'pending'12:43
Kinnison4. more housekeeping occurs which is unimportant right now12:43
KinnisonThat is the queue process12:43
KinnisonNow we have the publishing process12:43
dilysMerge to thelove@canonical.com/bazaar--devo--1.0: merge in brown-paper bag baz archive format support test suite fixes (patch-71)12:43
Kinnison1. The pending publication records are scanned12:43
Kinnison2. The pending files are copied into the archive from the library12:43
Kinnison3. the pending records are marked as published12:44
Kinnison4. The published records are scanned12:44
Kinnison5. Any no-longer-needed records are marked superceded12:44
Kinnison6. The superceded records are scanned12:44
Kinnison7. Any utterly unreferenced records are moved to PendingRemoval and are given a time-to-live12:44
Kinnison8. Any PendingRemoval entries which are now dead are removed12:44
Kinnison9. The on-disk archive files are updated12:45
KinnisonThat is the publication process12:45
KinnisonSo the three processes together form the end-to-end chain of events12:45
dilysMerge to rocketfuel@canonical.com/launchpad--devel--0: Queue tables for Lucille (patch-919)12:45
KinnisonThe first is triggered by the upload12:45
Kinnisonthe second is a regular event (perhaps every 5 minutes)12:45
Kinnisonthe third is a less often regular event (30 minutes for ubuntu, perhaps every hour, or every day or whatever for other distros)12:45
KinnisonDoes that make sense to people?12:46
kikoI'm still reading12:46
kikoso U4 is a step we could provide feedback on (package has been uploaded but not checked)12:46
SteveAdaf: I've read through your recent rosetta emails.  great stuff.  can you put together the list of the things you need to do next, to improve the translation process?12:47
KinnisonU4 is kinda a limbo state12:47
KinnisonParticularly the package may get rejected at that stage12:47
kikothen Q2 perhaps. and Q3 certainly12:47
kikowell, U4 is nice for keeping track of the upload rate12:47
KinnisonAfter Q3 you can report12:47
KinnisonU4 will include making a LogEntry to say about the upload12:48
kikothat could go into a notices thing?12:48
KinnisonPlausibly12:48
Kinnisoncprov and I will be discussing the LogEntry stuff today12:48
kikoPx is very very hazy to me12:48
kikoKinnison, is Q3 the same as saying the source package is Accepted in the source package page?12:49
kikoor are we confusing concepts12:49
KinnisonImagine that most of the queue states are entirely housekeeping and you don't tend to see them12:49
Kinnisonparticularly things may pass through many states in a single transaction12:49
KinnisonWhat matters in Q3 is that the publishing record is created and marked as pending12:50
kikoah. accepted in the queue. not a packaged accepted in the distro. right?12:50
KinnisonIndeed12:51
kikos/ged/ge12:51
kikoTHANKS!12:51
KinnisonThe queue really is just for lucille to track uploads12:51
kikowhere in Px does the inheritance issue show itself12:51
KinnisonNowhere12:51
Kinnisoninheritance is separate12:51
Kinnison(or rather not yet discussed in enough depth to be integrated)12:52
lifelessok, 1.0.1 baz release should fix the problems reported yesterdayu.12:55
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Kinnisonlifeless: debs ready?12:56
SteveAmeeting in 3 mins12:58
lifelessKinnison: ya-huh12:59
KinnisonSteveA: workrave wants me to rest-break, I may be a minute or two late :-)01:00
SteveAokay01:00
SteveAI should probably do the same01:00
kikohas anyone seen these?01:03
kiko<debonzi> DatabaseException: ERROR: current transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of transaction block SELECT COUNT(*) FROM EmailAddress WHERE email = 'foo.bar@canonical.com'01:03
SteveAthat doesn't look good01:03
SteveAmeeting time01:03
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SteveAall present, say "aye!" or "@1e!" if you're 133701:04
debonziaye01:04
spiv_pantsaye!01:04
kiko@le01:04
carlosaye!01:05
stuburp01:05
SteveAlifeless: can you look in on the meeting occassionally?01:05
lifelesssure01:05
=== Kinnison raises his hand
SteveAelmo: can you also look in on the meeting occassionally?01:06
SteveABradB: ?01:06
SteveAdaf: ?01:06
SteveAcprov: ?01:06
SteveAsalgado sends apologies.  he has an important final exam right now.01:06
=== lifeless high fives Kinnison
SteveABradB will be around in 25 mins or so01:07
elmoSteveA: err, as much as I can - I'm in the DC and my connectivity isn't assured.. 01:07
SteveAelmo: I'd think that being in the DC you'd have more connectivity than you can handle!01:07
lifelessno connectivity in the DC ?!?!?01:07
kikoSteveA, as in *final*, last exam of his undergrad career01:07
stubdebonzi: Sounds like my fault. Got a traceback to email me?01:07
debonzistub, sure01:07
SteveAOk, let's start with Baz.01:08
debonzistub, Ill sent you an email01:08
SteveAIs anyone not yet using Baz?01:08
elmoSteveA: I can only use my laptop in certain places and sometimes I have to get out of the way of the contractors in here trying to do their work01:08
=== SteveA wonders why he captialized Baz
kikostub, a lot is your fault, based on my experience from yesterday :)01:08
SteveAok, cool.  everyone is using baz.01:09
cprovSteveA: here01:09
SteveAhi celse01:09
SteveAhi celso01:09
kikoI'm using bazoo01:09
lifelessheh, with rocketfuel changed, you are *all* using baz :)01:09
kikono choice but ;)01:10
kikoalias tla=baz01:10
SteveAnext, roundup and the issue tracking application.01:10
kikoroundup?01:10
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stublifeless: Do we have a script to run to convert our local archives to the new format?01:10
lifelessstub: nope, but I'll do one up.01:11
SteveAstu will be leading the making of an issue tracking / trouble-ticket tracking application.  this starts with deploying roundup for this purpose, and integrating roundup's concept of logged in users with launchpad01:11
SteveAelmo is sorting out somewhere to host this roundup instance.01:11
stubThe roundup end of things will be doing the minimum required to handle commercial and non-commercial support requests.01:12
SteveAI'd like to be able to give jane a decent estimate of when roundup will be running.  Any ideas stub and elmo?01:12
stubFriday01:12
=== stub crosses his fingers
SteveAwhat can we expect to see on friday?01:13
SteveAor would it be by the end of friday?01:13
kikoyou guys have crazy schedules01:13
stubRoundup running, accepting issues, login using the auth server.01:13
SteveAkiko: stub has been working on this before today01:13
stubAnd a flag for commercial support01:13
=== kiko shrugs
SteveAstub: we'll want it to look like it is part of the ubuntu site too01:14
SteveAor at least, have the right logo and colours01:14
sabdflhiya01:14
SteveAhi mark01:14
SteveAok, next, shipit01:15
stubSteveA: This time friday01:15
spiv_pantsI'm working on setting it up on mawson at the moment.01:15
SteveAspiv_pants: you're installing the "new shipit that authenticates using a launchpad authserver" on mawson01:15
SteveAstub: thanks.  please keep me up to date with how it's going.01:15
SteveAspiv_pants: what exactly are you setting up?01:16
spiv_pantsThat should be done tonight, connectivity allowing.  (my home dsl is down, but I'm at jdub's atm, but it's starting to get late)01:16
SteveAdo you need to get mysql onto mawson?01:17
SteveAso you need any help from elmo to get this running on there?01:17
spiv_pantsAn authserver for the shipit web app to talk to, and then install the shipit cgis somewhere and get the admins to get apache somewhere pointing at that.01:17
spiv_pantsIt uses postgres.01:17
sabdflwhy are we moving shipit?01:17
SteveAwe're not01:18
spiv_pantssabdfl: This is a test instance, for the new launchpad-enabled code.01:18
SteveAthis is a place to test that the new shipit works as intended01:18
sabdflok01:18
stubWhat postgresql server is shippit talking to, and is it being backed up?01:18
SteveAstub: you mean, the real one?01:18
stubyes01:18
SteveAspiv_pants: do you know?01:19
spiv_pantsI don't know much about the production shipit -- I know mako has some dumps in his home dir on chinstrap.01:19
spiv_pantsSo I suspect the answer is "not as well as it could be".01:20
spiv_pantsmako's the guy to ask, I think.01:20
SteveAspiv_pants: can you find out from mako, and take charge of arranging what is necessary01:20
stubYup01:20
spiv_pantsOk.01:20
SteveAthanks.  please keep me informed about how this is going, and how getting the demo ship-it running is going01:21
SteveAnext: auth server01:21
SteveAstub: did we have a problem last week with the auth server going insane when it was disconnected from the database?01:21
stubIt stopped authing and elmo bounced it. I don't know if it crashed, hung, or what but elmo might.01:22
SteveAspiv_pants: can you get whatever logs you need from elmo, or get them yourself if you have login rights, and try to reproduce the problem?01:23
stubThere is a bug in Malone, which I think spiv has grabbed already01:23
spiv_pantsstub: Yeah, I have.01:23
SteveAok, great01:23
SteveAspiv_pants: have you made any progress on it so far?01:23
spiv_pantsWell, I have it using some newer code backed ported from SVN Twisted that in theory fixes the problem deployed, and frustratingly it made no difference :/01:24
SteveAcan we live with "we need to restart the auth server when restarting the golden database" for now?01:25
spiv_pantsI think the next simplest thing to try is probably to make a simple wrapper for psycopg that does the reconnection transparently -- I think stub had a use for that as well?01:25
SteveAbecause I'd like spiv_pants to concentrate on shipit until that is done.01:26
stubSteveA: Sure. Just means someone who can bounce the authserver needs to be around during maintenance - PostgreSQL and emperor have been reliable.01:26
spiv_pants(If we did make that wrapper, it would probably solve the similar problem in launchpad itself as well)01:26
SteveAokay, let's look at that wrapper when we're together in mataro.01:27
SteveAspiv_pants: can you annotate the bug in malone accordingly?01:27
spiv_pantsSounds good.  I will.01:27
SteveAgreat.01:27
SteveAsoyuz and lucille next01:27
SteveAKinnison: what's been happening with your work?01:28
KinnisonRight01:28
KinnisonPersonally I've been working on Gina and then on the lucille queue stuff01:28
KinnisonOnce the dogfood updates happen today; mawson will be in a position to cron-run the script I have to get gina importing hoary into dogfood everyd ay01:29
kikoalso explaining to us numbskulls how it works01:29
stubKinnison: Dogfood update has happened01:29
Kinnisonkiko: Aww, I do that for fun :-)01:29
Kinnisonstub: In that case, later today I'll get gina cronned and running01:29
cprovKinnison: aha01:29
spiv_pantsSteveA, stub: I can't update the bug, the page on dogfood is broken :/01:30
KinnisonThe lucille queue stuff is coming along slowly but surely. I've been refining my ideas of the queue processing and also helping cprov through getting to grips with the rest of lucille01:30
spiv_pantsOh, no, just the link.01:30
KinnisonI've committed to rocketfuel the sqlobject classes and interfaces for the queue so people can start to interrogate it01:30
Kinnison(although nothing puts stuff in the queue yet)01:30
KinnisonI did a quick explanation of the end-to-end for uploading through to publication for kiko earlier. It's in the irclog for this channel and also on the Lucille page of the wiki01:31
Kinnisoncprov: would you like to tell what you've done on lucille (you can cover your non-lucille stuff when stevea asks)01:31
cprovKinnison: sure01:32
BradBmorning01:32
cprovI've been working on Librarian Wrapper, it is able to locally cache the files when we run librarian in anoter location01:32
SteveAhi brad.  you haven't missed anything you absolutely need to know about01:33
BradBok01:33
cprovit works, but still missing some FS lock to avoid multiple instances01:33
SteveAcprov: what is the librarian wrapper to be used for?01:33
cprovSteveA: it caches the files locally on LP machine, so we are able to have links to them 01:34
SteveAdoes the librarian server files via apache, or on its own?01:35
stubcprov: What is the use case for that?01:36
cprovLibrarian server by its own on a twisted.web server, the wrapper able us to serve by apache01:37
cprovstub: the Librarian will run hiden inside your network, and we will keep the package archive under apache and organized as a true archive01:38
SteveAI think we need some docs that explain how a full Launchpad must be deployed.01:39
kikoindeed01:39
SteveAThis is becoming rather complex, and I don't feel comfortable that I understand it all.01:39
spiv_pantsSteveA: I need to leave jdub's shortly so I can get the last train back home.  Is there anything else you need from me for this meeting?01:40
stubMmm... I originally thought the librarian was to serve the files directly to everyone that needed them, to keep it light and high performance.01:40
KinnisonSteveA: the librarian wrapper's purpose is to allow lucille to cache archive-related files on the publication machines. This will give us all sorts of space-saving and mirror-saving benefits wrt. hardlinking and so on.01:40
cprovstub: the Librarian URL for a file would be mawson:8080/1/1/alien.deb, we turn it in mawson/dists/ubuntu/a/alien.deb, or something like it 01:40
SteveAspiv_pants: that's fine.  please read the summary of the meeting that I'll post later, and ask questions if you need to.01:40
stubcprov: The librarian URL can be whatever we want it to be - we wrote it and we can change it.01:41
spiv_pantsSteveA: Thanks.  I will.01:41
kikoKinnison, can you elaborate on that?01:42
kikoI, like stub, thought we would serve files directly from the librarian01:42
cprovstub: I'm not sure if we can really change Librarian to reproduce archive structure as we want, so the wrapper can 01:42
=== Kinnison thinks we leave the librarian exactly as-is
Kinnisonthe librarian will serve to the outside world *some* of the files01:43
SteveAI don't want this meeting to drag on, so let's talk about the librarian particularly at a meeting tomorrow.01:43
KinnisonSteveA: okay01:43
KinnisonSteveA: 12:00 UTC?01:43
cprovSteveA: ok01:43
KinnisonSteveA: If we can make it 13:00 UTC I'd be happier01:44
SteveAstub: your call on a later time01:44
kiko(why did you suggest 12UTC first then? <wink>)01:44
Kinnisonkiko: because I didn't think quickly enough01:44
kikoyou need dual pipelining01:44
stubI'd be happier with 12:00 - I'm at UTC+11 remember01:44
KinnisonHow about 11:00 UTC then?01:45
SteveAkiko and cprov?01:45
Kinnison12:00 is irritating on a thursday due to having to go buy lunch01:45
stubGood for me - I think that is Team Brazil's call01:45
kikoI'm fine with it01:45
kiko9am here01:45
stub(I can do later, I just get fuzzier)01:45
cprovfine, too01:45
stubWoohoo... early meeting. 10pm!01:45
SteveAokay, 11:00 UTC tomorrow, librarian meeting01:45
KinnisonCool01:46
SteveAI mentioned earlier that I'm finding it hard to understand how a full launchpad is deployed01:46
SteveAWe need a document with diagrams that explains this01:46
SteveAWho is well-placed to produce this?01:46
KinnisonSteveA: I'd recommend we sit together in Mataro and draw it on paper to begin with01:46
kikoyeah01:47
SteveAthat's a good point, Kinnison.01:47
cprovyep01:47
=== spiv_pants agrees
SteveAspiv_pants: catch that train!01:47
spiv_pants:)01:47
spiv_pantsSee you tomorrow!01:48
SteveAokay, that can go on the mataro agenda, as one of the first things we need to do.01:48
SteveAother soyuz business?01:48
SteveAcelso: you had some other things to talk about01:48
cprovyes01:49
kikosalgado's hacking karma right now01:49
cprovI'm working also in Lucille Log System01:49
kikowe are being bothered by the changes in the pgsql server side of things01:49
kiko(because we are diskless and run the server on a woody box)01:49
kikosalgado will bring that up with stub today01:50
kikovia email01:50
kikodebonzi's just landed in switzerland01:50
kikowill be doing polishing on soyuz itself01:50
SteveAokay.  the only other problem I've heard about with the new stuff is with locales and the full-text search stuff01:50
KinnisonYeah, I can't get 'make check' to pass on my desktop01:50
Kinnisonthis is *REALLY ANNOYING*01:51
cprovEvery Help on it, please read: https://wiki.canonical.com/Lucille_2fLoggingNotes01:51
Kinnisonbecause I can't test things before commits01:51
SteveAstub: you proposed to make postgresql ignore the local and just be in the C locale, right?01:51
stubbtw. Nobody except steve has mentioned any problems, and steve was just relaying a second hand report01:52
carlosKinnison: ./test_on_merge.py canonical01:52
KinnisonI hit it yesterday and was waiting for the meeting to bring it up01:52
SteveAI'm set to the US and posix locale01:52
carlosKinnison: make check seems to have some problems01:52
sabdflok01:52
SteveAit is possible that the guys in brazil would hit the same problem if they are set to a BR locale01:52
sabdfli'm also a bit confused about "running the librarian in another location"01:52
stubSteveA: Is your *database* set to that?01:52
stubpsql -d template1 -c 'show lc_ctype'01:53
Kinnisondsilvers@petitemort:~$ psql -d template1 -c 'show lc_ctype'01:53
SteveAstub: C01:53
Kinnison en_GB.UTF801:53
kikostub, that's because we JUST WOKE UP :)01:53
KinnisonWhich will become more and more common as we move to utf8-by-default on hoary01:53
Kinnisonsabdfl: We'll discuss tomorrow01:53
Kinnisonsabdfl: relax for now :-)01:53
stubFirstly, the postgresql docs explicitly state 'don't use a locale unless you have to'.01:53
SteveAsabdfl: there is a meeting tomorrow at 11:00 UTC specifically on the librarian01:54
stubSecondly, it is considered wrong that PostgreSQL defaults the locale to whatever LC_??? is set to when you run initdb, instead of locale C. People have problems, and often have to rebuild their DB with the correct locale. This is a common issue on the postgresql mailing lists, but I havn't followed the details too closely.01:54
stubSetting the locale to not-C has no effect for english locales afaik except slowing your system down (as it calls the locale aware sort functions etc. instead of the fast ones)01:55
SteveAwe need it to be so that each launchpad developer can run their database so that it is like the dogfood database.01:56
kikoI can't run the database right now01:56
SteveAthis should not require changing a system-wide setting01:56
kikoit requires python 2.2 and, well, we're tied to 2.1 because of the postgresql backport we use.01:57
SteveAkiko: why are you stuck on woody for your server?01:57
kikoit's mainly an issue on swapping True for 101:57
stubSteveA: locale under postgresql is set when you do initdb and affects all databases in that installation. To change it requires blowing it away and recreating. This is because locale change change sort order and affects indexes.01:57
kikoSteveA, because the server is used by the whole company, and upgrading it is not a trivial undertaking.01:57
SteveAkiko: try: True except: NameError; False, True = 0, 101:58
kikoSteveA, is it okay for me to start doing this sort of change in out python-sql functions?01:58
SteveAkiko: co-ordinate with stub on that01:58
kikoI know exactly how to fix it, but I want to get buy-in on the idea01:58
SteveAit is fine by me, but I think you need to plan to upgrade that server01:59
stubkiko: What is the result of psql -d template1 -c 'show lc_ctype'01:59
SteveAat some point in the future01:59
kikostub, C, that's not an issue for me.01:59
kikoSteveA, easier said than done; are we going to move towards 2.2-functionality in pypgsql or are we staying fairly restrained?01:59
SteveAstub: Can we assume that people can blow their postgres databases away, or dump and restore them if there are precious databases?  Can you give Kinnison instructions on how to re-initialize his databases?02:00
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KinnisonI just want to be able to make check02:01
SteveAKinnison, stub: sort it out, mail the list with what you had to do so others can do so if needed in the future.02:01
KinnisonSteveA: *nod*02:01
SteveAkiko, stub: work out whether we can live with an old subset of python on the server, mail the list, comment the files, or come back to me if you can't come to an agreement. 02:02
SteveANext, Malone.02:02
kikothanks.02:02
SteveABradB: can you kick off with recent happenings in malone?02:02
=== BradB thinks
BradBWell, recently I've been trying to work on making life as easy as possible for users.02:03
BradBI've added the "one-click" actions; accepting, rejecting and fixing bugs can all be done really quickly in the UI now.02:03
BradBAnd things to make finding what you're looking for as simple as possible.02:04
BradBAnd, when a new dogfood is deployed, the message saying "Successfully added bug # N", which a few people have mentioned really needing.02:04
BradBWe've got a few important issues to solve between now and the time that Ubuntu developers can use this.02:05
SteveAwhat are those issues?02:05
BradBAnd they involve me being able to sit down with sabdfl for a good 30 mins on IRC.02:05
BradBOr in Spain.02:05
=== daf arrives
BradBSteveA: There's a few things:02:05
BradB1. The bug listing is too wide (bug filed). We need to get creative to find a way to present the information as effectively, but in a smaller space.02:06
SteveAdaf: why are you so late for the meeting?02:06
BradB2. The bug listing is too slow. It's starting to really slug as more and more bugs get added, and will probably keep doing that until:02:06
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Kinnisonlu.02:06
BradB3. We need a better DB design for the *BugAssignment tables.02:07
KinnisonBradB: won't indexes help enough?02:07
dafSteveA: timezome confusion again :(02:07
BradBKinnison: Nope, that's not the issue here.02:07
KinnisonBradB: oh?02:07
BradBKinnison: I haven't gone back yet and really nailed down what's causing it, but there's just plain and simple way too many queries hitting the DB on the bug listing screen.02:08
SteveAdaf: buy a cheap digital travel clock, and keep it on UTC.02:08
KinnisonBradB: views?02:08
dafSteveA: yeah, I'm clearly no good at the math02:08
BradBKinnison: already been discussed, nope, that won't help either here.02:08
KinnisonBradB: suck :-(02:08
BradBKinnison: It comes down to designing better tables, which we've been discussing in IRC and on list.02:08
=== Kinnison nods
BradBAnd the /last/ two big things that I see:02:09
kikoBradB, I can sit with you through some optimizations at mataro, doing this sort of thing on IRC is very hard for me02:09
SteveAokay, perhaps another issue for early in mataro.02:09
BradBkiko: Sure...I expect Spain will be a really productive time for Malone. :)02:09
kikoI have two weeks of usefulness :)02:09
BradB4. integrating with BugActivity (keeping a history on what changed on a bug)02:10
BradB5. super select widgets02:10
BradB6. messages on assignments02:10
BradB(okay, that was three things)02:10
SteveAlifeless: how is the progress on getting Zope 3 into arch going?02:10
SteveA(This is related to us upgrading zope 3 for launchpad, and getting Sources)02:11
BradBI've been really needing some input from sabdfl, because we don't have time for me to go off implementing something where sabdfl "I didn't want it done /that/ way." :)02:11
BradBs/sabdfl/sabdfl says/02:11
SteveABradB: do you still have productive things to do before going to spain?  Or, are you totally blocked on talking with mark?02:11
BradBSteveA: I've been fixing other bugs as reported in the collector, which are smaller, yet fairly important details too.02:12
BradBe.g. adding CVE refs is broken02:12
BradBfixing that, fixing things here and there.02:12
lifelessSteveA: not at all, until I get the new pysvn packages elmo was arranging for02:13
elmoI asked doko to do that, and he's agreed, I didn't realise  it was blocking stuff tho02:13
SteveAwe need this stuff before mataro02:13
SteveABradB: is there one significant thing you can have a phone call with mark about, and be able to make good progress on over the next few days?02:14
BradBSteveA: yeah, definitely02:15
SteveAwhat is that?02:15
BradB4 and 6 from above (they're somewhat related)02:15
SteveAokay.  lets get you and sabdfl talking on the phone today.02:16
BradBok02:16
SteveAlifeless, elmo: can you keep me in the loop on getting the pysvn stuff ready and getting zope3 syncing?02:16
SteveARosetta02:17
elmoSteveA: you realise there's 2 working days left till mataro, right?02:17
SteveAdaf, carlos: where is rosetta at?  02:17
dafwell, it works02:17
carlos:-)02:17
dafyou add a project and translate it02:18
dafall through the web02:18
SteveAelmo: I've been asking for a new Zope 3 for over a week.02:18
lifelessSteveA: zope3 before mataro is not realistic, not for a full import. sorry, but its not.02:18
lifelessIF it works first time, sure.02:18
SteveAlifeless: then, can we find some other way to get a recent Zope 3 into rocketfuel for use with launchpad?02:18
lifelesssure, I'm happy to do that today.02:19
lifelessthey are very different problems.02:19
dafthere's lots of room for polish, but all the essential operations are there02:19
lifelessSteveA: paste me the svn url to checkout please.02:19
SteveAok, thanks.  I'll send you a FQ SVN revision id to use when I've run some tests on it.02:19
SteveAdaf: you have recently been going through a particular scenario of use with rosetta02:20
dafSteveA: right02:20
SteveAand checking that it does what it should do, and seeing what areas need work and polish02:21
dafnamely demonstrating Rosetta to a live audience02:21
SteveAcan you briefly outline that scenario, and say what works02:21
SteveA(I expect we'll wrap up this meeting in under 15 minutes)02:21
dafok02:22
dafthe scenario is that you add a new project to Launchpad02:22
dafcreate the project, product, template02:22
dafimport the template02:22
dafdo some translation02:22
dafand export a PO file02:22
dafthis demonstrates that you can translate a free software program 100% through the web02:23
SteveAok.  so that means rosetta works.  well done rosetta team.02:24
carlosthanks02:24
kikocool02:25
SteveAcarlos: you are working on a script to do the time-consuming imports one-after-another02:25
SteveAhow is that going?02:25
carlosjust wake up on time for the meeting, nothing still done02:25
carloswill do it today02:26
SteveAokay, good02:26
SteveAto wrap up, I have a few launchpad things to talk about02:26
SteveApermissions: anyone used them yet?02:26
carlosnothing outside launchpad.AnyPerson02:27
SteveAwhen you go to a link that requires authentication, then currently you are invited to authenticate using HTTP basic auth02:27
SteveAI want to make launchpad prompt you with a form for cookie auth in this case02:28
SteveAhowever, this conflicts with keeping basic auth alive for page tests.  So, what I'm going to do is make basic auth run only when you access launchpad on port 8086 (the "debug layer" port)02:28
SteveAaccessing launchpad on 8085 (the public production port) will use only cookie auth02:29
SteveA"place" object that knows about URL context and absolute urls and breadcrumbs.  I didn't get around to fixing this last week.  It is next on my list, as this is very important for the usability of launchpad.02:30
stubSteveA: I realized that at some point we will need a View permission (for private bugs)02:30
SteveAstub: okay, can we chat about that tomorrow or in mataro?02:31
kikoSteveA, sounds like a plan02:31
stubSteveA: Note that dogfood is running the debug layer so we can get tracebacks02:31
SteveAhmm... maybe we need a port that offers tracebacks but also does basic auth. 02:32
SteveAperhaps I'll have an explicit "basic auth" layer02:32
SteveAthat gets turned on separately02:32
SteveAI'll think about this a bit02:32
KinnisonSteveA: can you put something like ++basic++/ at the start of a url to allow basic auth or something?02:32
SteveAI'd rather use a separate port02:32
SteveAor separate configuration in launchpad.conf02:33
dafSteveA: I think launchpad.conf might be a good way to do it02:33
SteveAwhich brings me on to launchpad.conf02:33
KinnisonHow about "accept basic auth if provided, otherwise do cookie auth" ?02:33
kikolaunchpad.conf!02:33
dafor some way of passing in a parameter which controls which authentication method to use02:33
kikoreadable in a vanilla python2.1 installation!02:33
SteveAKinnison: perhaps I can do that with a tweak of what is currently there.02:33
BradBkiko: is that a good thing? :P02:34
SteveAso, we'll work on making more use of launchpad.conf at mataro02:34
kikoYES02:34
SteveAstatus messages: brad did some work on these, and has started using something very simple02:34
SteveABradB: please send a message to the list saying what you are doing, and how it works02:34
BradBSteveA: ok02:35
stubSteveA: basic auth and fallback to cookie would be good for XML-RPC support02:35
SteveAby "status messages" I mean "Bug 666 has been added. thanks." messages02:35
BradBSteveA: It was simplish to use, but turned out to be fairly annoying to find out how to do it. :)02:35
SteveAstub:  I don't want the server to do XMLRPC on the same port as it does normal browser stuff.02:35
dilysMerge to rocketfuel@canonical.com/launchpad--production--1.5: cherry pick arch support fix from devel (patch-6)02:36
SteveApage titles: daf implemented a "page title checker", as most or all of our pages should have a meaningful title.02:36
SteveAI've proposed some ZCML that may make writing page titles easier.  I'd welcome some feedback on the proposal.02:36
SteveAbrowser:form directive.  We'll work on this at mataro.02:37
BradBw00t!02:37
stubMataro Z3 Sprint02:37
BradBis there one!?02:37
SteveAno02:37
stubYer - we are it ;)02:38
BradBheh02:38
SteveAI don't think forms will take three days.  so it will be a very short sprint.02:38
SteveAone more thing: almost everyone turned up to the meeting on time.02:38
SteveAthank you for that.02:38
kikothanks SteveA 02:38
SteveAone of the things that keeps a distributed company such as ours working effectively is when people keep each other informed about what is going on, and keep to the things they have said they'd do02:39
kikoSteveA, I do with we used the mailing list and the Wiki more, though. IRC is very stressful for me02:40
SteveAsuch as doing things that they agreed to do in meetings, or turning up to talk with people at agreed times.02:40
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BradBkiko: /stressful/? Interesting word to describe IRC. :)02:40
SteveAkiko: feel free to suggest more of that, when you think it is appropriate.02:40
SteveAhave you seen the film "Bill and Ted's excellent adventure" ?02:40
kikoI think we fast-spec a lot on IRC, but it's never consolidated into a document02:41
kikoI miss that a lot02:41
SteveAkiko: good point02:41
kikoknowledge isn't being kept structured02:41
carlosSteveA: dude, you should distribute it with hoary CDs :-D02:41
kikoand that makes it *hard* to keep up02:41
kikoI'm living this out with Kinnison's publishing workflow02:41
Kinnisonkiko: I copied the workflow onto the wiki02:41
SteveAin the film, bill and ted are accidental founders of an advanced civilisation built on the principle "be excellent to each other"02:41
kikothere is a text, but try making sense of it in 1 hour -- non-trivial02:41
Kinnisonkiko: quite deliberately ;-)02:41
SteveAI think we need to adopt that meme.02:42
kikoit's not a take on Kinnison, just that we need an architect that keeps track of docs and helps us edit them02:42
kikowe lack a person with those skills and time today02:42
kikoand I miss it.02:42
SteveAThanks for the meeting everyone!  I'll write up a summary a little later.02:42
Kinnisonkiko: having someone who dedicates time to documenting things would be excellent02:42
SteveAkiko: I'll note what you've just said in the meeting summary.02:42
kikothanks02:42
dafwould following up everything significant that happens on IRC with mails to the list help us be excellent?02:42
BradBthanks all02:42
SteveAbe excellent to each other.02:43
daf(FSVO "significant", of course)02:43
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stubDoes anyone else feel that we would be better off keeping docs in arch rather than the wiki?02:43
KinnisonThe wiki is a convenient place to build information up02:43
KinnisonCanonicalising it (sic) into documents in arch might be useful though02:43
dafstub: yes02:43
dafstub: for some docs at least02:43
kikostub, not really02:43
stubSo is a directory full of files is too, provided you have a script that builds an index and renders to hypertext02:44
kikothe wiki makes it a lot more accessible, and it controls history02:44
kikoI can't see why local files would be better than a wiki02:44
kikono, I think the problem is a people issue, not a tool issue.02:44
dafI'm in favour of it for very detailed documents which should be in lockstep with the code02:44
dilysMerge to thelove@canonical.com/bazaar--devo--1.1: merge in 1.0.1 (patch-2)02:44
Kinnisondaf: Indeed02:45
kikoI don't think it's a detail issue either02:45
KinnisonA lot of the info I produce is mostly braindump so that I don't forget02:45
kikoor else it becomes a chore02:45
KinnisonThat goes well on the wiki and would suck (IMO) in arch02:45
KinnisonOnce *reality* is documented, that should go into arch02:45
kikoI really do think it's a launchpad documentation wiki we're missing, and an editor for it02:45
kikoKinnison, reality changes; the wiki is good at that02:46
kikothe essence of software is constant change02:46
Kinnisonkiko: but reality changes in arch, if the docs change in lockstep that's good02:46
dafkiko: a separate wiki?02:46
stubI feel the wiki UI is much clunkier than 'your favourite editor', and in the repository you work with every day more accessible. It also gives us more control to build tools and workflow to manage it (eg. assign each document and owner, and warn if a doc hasn't been updated in 4 weeks asking the owner to review it for currentness)02:46
=== kiko shrugs
kikostub, we could just activate wiki UIs02:46
elmooh, btw, could we add that 'enable an external editor' thing to our wiki?  that'd rock02:47
kikohyperlinking helps a *LOT*02:47
kikoand the wiki makes producing a hyperlinked doc much easier02:47
kikoelmo: seconded, it would probably help stub's concern02:47
Kinnisonelmo: install the mozex extension02:47
kikoI agree the wiki editor is clunky and I use it less because of it02:47
kikobut02:47
Kinnisonmozex.mozdev.org02:47
Kinnisonit rocks02:47
kikoI feel launchpad in general has a tendency to undercommunicate its design and policies02:48
Kinnison(caution: may need other extensions to access old-style prefs windows)02:48
stubkiko: I wouldn't want to migrate to a fs based system unless it took the strengths of what we have (hyperlinking etc) and improved on it. Indeed - it would probably resemble a local wiki.02:48
kikoI don't like detailed documentation at all -- I think that's Python.02:48
kikowhat I do miss is *organized* documentation that gives you the pointers in most of the areas02:48
kikoi.e. a general idea of publishing workflow02:49
stubMmm.... indexed and current.02:49
kikobuilt in a conceptual hierarchy that someone that needs the information can come and look02:49
kikonow moin does have indexes and history02:49
kikoI like it a lot02:49
kikobut I feel that unless we have someone that is in charge or organizing it and overseeing the changes and evolution..02:50
kikofred brooks argues for this figure in TMMM.02:50
kikoand now02:50
kikoenough hand waving02:50
kikothat is my personal opinion. :)02:50
stubI think you are right, and that it could be considered a hole in the team. The other hole atm is limi which we will need to address at some point (we need to apoint a CSS nazi at a minimum)02:51
kikostub, I'm working on getting a replacement for the second item, we shall see soon if it works out02:51
=== Kinnison can bring printouts of the CSS and HTML specs with him to mataro, and also o'reilly books on dhtml and javascript
KinnisonI can also find my css guide if it'll help02:52
kikobut the documentation editor is still missed02:52
=== daf cleaned out some bad HTML last night
stubKinnison: it is more needing someone to keep it maintainable - if nobody is resposible, it will collapse under a weight of small task-specific hacks.02:53
Kinnisonstub: Hmm yes02:53
kikoour wiki is an example of stub's last phrase02:53
kikoit has good content but none of it is organized 02:53
kikoand what was current is now outdated and a lot of it is rubbish now02:54
stubI think every document needs an owner, and every document needs to be reviewed by its owner once a month, and we need technology to remind us because this isn't natural and none of us will do it without prompting.02:55
stub(which is the micro end)02:55
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kikostub, having someone concerned with the big picture is my concern; we can all keep track of individual docs, but the hierarchy, page size, linking needs a global concern.03:01
SteveA|lunchkiko, stub: all noted.  I agree.  another goal for mataro: sort out the docs and who is going to hold the big picture.03:04
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kikothanks.03:05
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stubkiko:  There should be no problem installing both Python and PostgreSQL in a non-standard location and have two PostgreSQL servers running simultaneously - we would just need to start specifying 'port' in the various connection strings.03:26
kiko-afkstub, what's the long-term plan for pypgsql?03:36
kiko-afkin terms of features and compatibility?03:38
stubplpythonu you mean? More of it if anything. Ideally, database constraints will do 'from canonical.validators import foo; foo(data)'03:38
stubOr do you mean the database driver pypgsql?03:39
kiko-afksorry, I mean plpython, of course.03:43
kiko-afktrying to do too many things at once.03:43
kiko-afkso you forsee it depending on zope, for instance?03:43
kiko-afkstub, your answers directly reflect on my stress level for today :)03:46
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SteveAlulu__: ping04:16
lulu__SteveA:here.04:17
SteveAwhat's the email problem?04:18
lulu__we are having many returns from creating accounts on the site. There seem to be 3 problems that Andrew has identified:04:19
lulu__1) bad email addresses04:19
lulu__2) bad server config04:19
lulu__3) DNS - adelie.warthogs.hbd.com not having a reverse DNS record.04:20
SteveAis adelie the machine that is running plone?04:21
lulu__Nope - gentoo.04:21
elmoadelie's the mail relay for the LAN04:22
elmoI'm working on it's reverse04:22
elmo[it requires me to fill in a M$ Word document that crashes Warty's OpenOffice...] 04:22
elmo[away, phone] 04:22
SteveAabiword?04:23
SteveAok, so elmo is dealing with number 304:23
lulu__SteveA: I had another 6 returns today.04:24
SteveAwhat about the second point?  what is bad about the server config?04:24
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lulu__SteveA: server config - I assume that's from their side...but this seems to be an abnormally high amount of registration returns.04:25
BradBprops to mozilla for arbitrarily deciding to ignore my kb input04:26
lulu__SteveA:how should we deal with these returns going forward. Do I need to try and resend them if it's a valid email address?04:26
SteveAmozilla does that to me from time to time04:27
SteveAI think it is to do with modal dialogs04:27
BradBi just gave gdm a kick and things are back to normal now04:27
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BradBmy gf was giving me some flack on linux..."on ne peut plus couter des dvds??"..."ben...on peut sauf que c'est pas mal illgal t'se"04:29
SteveAlulu__: I read through some of the returned messages04:33
lulu__SteveA:yes04:34
SteveAone thing that occurs to me: I think some people have the idea that we are giving them a *new* email address.04:34
SteveAthat would explain the people who think they have email addresses @ubuntu.org and @ubuntulinux.org04:34
SteveAso, we should make it clear that we want their existing email address04:34
SteveAthat they are not getting a new email address04:34
lulu__SteveA: yes - but we have many who have submitted normal addresses.04:35
SteveAand maybe disallow any email addresses @ubuntu.org, ubuntu.com, ubuntulinux.org04:35
SteveAlulu__: one thing at a time04:35
lulu__good point.04:35
lulu__SteveA: I will write a short registration FAQ to assist.04:36
SteveAokay.  as for the rest of the emails you forwarded, they are just people who have not entered their email address properly, or where their mail server has fallen off the network or is misconfigured.04:37
SteveAnot much we can do about that.  i met that all the time when I was doing work for securicor/group404:37
SteveAcorporate mail servers just aren't well maintained, on the whole04:37
SteveAthe more complex their systems, the worse they're maintained, it seems04:38
SteveAI wonder what the right point to disallow @ubuntu.com and @ubuntulinux.org addresses is... plone?  auth server?  database?04:39
SteveAor indeed if it is such a good idea04:40
lulu__we can place a link to a registration FAQ in the Join_form.04:40
BradBSteveA: We could validate the email before registering, no?04:40
BradBi.e. by doing a user lookup04:40
SteveAyou mean within plone?04:40
carlosin fact, launchpad have already the needed bits to do it04:41
BradBsure04:41
carloswe have a field to know if the email is validated or not04:41
lulu__yes - on submit we validate for @ and . in the email address - can we do it on form submission in the same way?04:41
carloswe could reject any login from unvalidated emails04:41
SteveABradB: that would catch the places where people sign up through plone.  we can expect people who sign up through launchpad to be more clueful.04:41
SteveAcarlos: that won't help04:42
carlosSteveA: why?04:42
SteveAcarlos: they won't have the password anyway, as it will have been sent to the wrong place04:42
carlosbut we could remove the bad accounts using a postprocess check, of course, the user will not know that they did a mistake04:43
SteveABradB: can you do this on the plone server?  I think we should disallow only @ubuntu.com and @ubuntulinux.org04:43
SteveAubuntu.org doesn't belong to us, so it doesn't seem right restricting that.  maybe the guys who have that domain would want to sign up to use Ubuntu.04:44
SteveAcarlos: it really doesn't matter if we have un-claimed accounts in the system04:45
SteveAprovided someone doesn't DOS the server by registering thousands of email addresses04:46
carlosok04:46
BradBSteveA: Just curious, why do we want to allow addresses that don't validate on a user lookup?04:46
BradBMaybe that breaks with catchall email address, I'm not sure.04:47
SteveABradB: I don't know.  I haven't thought of that.  Just, this doesn't help with the issue under discussion.04:47
SteveABradB: have you arranged to talk with mark on the phone?04:47
BradBSteveA: It would prevent users with invalid addresses from signing up, which was what I thought was the issue under discussion. :)04:48
BradBSteveA: not yet, I'm writing an email to lp@ about status messages04:48
SteveABradB: I don't get it.  I think I'm being very slow this afternoon.04:48
BradBSteveA: sender address verification, or whatever the RFC-compliant name for it is.04:49
BradBSteveA: foo@bar.com => "bar.com, is foo a valid account?"04:49
BradBI think Plone might actually do this by default, but perhaps our custom-fu circumvents it.04:50
SteveABradB: I don't think that works for 99% of email addresses out there anyway.04:55
BradBI was worried that might be the case (though I don't quite understand why.)04:55
BradBSteveA: I can hack it to prevent reg's from ubuntu.com and ubuntulinux.org in any case, I was just hoping for a solution that prevents people signing up with email addresses that bounce.04:55
SteveABradB: I think the only reasonable way to do that is to have a machine-read envelope return address on the mail, and have software that receives the bounce, links it up with the RFC message id of the email that was sent, and invalidates the sign-up request.04:57
SteveAWe could do that with a custom mail sending / processing tool.  I think we'll want that eventually for launchpad, but it isn't a priority.04:57
SteveAthe guys at POV are working on such a thing for one of their commercial projects I think, so perhaps they can be persuaded to make it open source, or license it to canonical or whatever.04:58
SteveAor, we might want to re-implement it anyway.04:58
SteveAbut, later04:58
BradByeah04:58
BradBSteveA: Is this email validation change something that should be done today?04:59
SteveAif it is a quick thing, sure04:59
SteveAand if it has a low risk of screwing up due to plone's complexity04:59
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BradBOkay. It shouldn't be difficult, I'll take a look after lunch.05:00
SteveAthanks brad05:00
SteveAlulu__: once elmo has sorted out the reverse dns, and brad has made this change, and you have updated the docs, then I think that will at least reduce the number of bounced messages.05:01
SteveAwe should maybe change the text on the sign-up page to make it clear that this is your own current email address.05:01
lulu__Have just done so :o)05:01
SteveAan email address that you can receive email at05:01
SteveAgreat.05:01
lulu__and am writing an FAQ atm05:02
lulu__elmo and Steve and Brad, thanks for your time.05:02
SteveAI expect elmo will be doing this soon, as it is an important thing for all our systems running at the data centre05:02
carlosSteveA: I'm having problems using the getUtility method from the import daemon and initZopeless05:03
carlosFile "./import-daemon.py", line 22, in run05:03
carlos    for project in getUtility(IProjectSet):05:03
carlos  File "/home/carlos/Work/dists/launchpad/sourcecode/zope/src/zope/component/__init__.py", line 77, in getUtility05:03
carlos    return getService(Utilities, context=context).getUtility(interface, name)05:03
carlos  File "/home/carlos/Work/dists/launchpad/sourcecode/zope/src/zope/component/__init__.py", line 69, in getService05:03
SteveAyou will have05:03
carlos    return getServices(context).getService(name)05:03
carlos  File "/home/carlos/Work/dists/launchpad/lib/zope/component/service.py", line 109, in getService05:03
SteveAbecause initZopeless does not read in the zcml05:03
carlos    raise ComponentLookupError(name)05:03
carloszope.component.exceptions.ComponentLookupError: 'Utilities'05:03
carlos05:03
SteveAand does not register any utilities05:03
SteveAso, we cannot use utilities in these scripts05:03
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SteveArather than use adapters and utilities, you need to use the classes directly05:04
carlosok05:04
SteveAthis is something we'll fix eventually05:04
SteveAby making initZopeless load in a subset of the zcml05:04
SteveAlike, just adapters and utilities and such05:05
SteveAbut not pages05:05
SteveAit isn't a priority, though05:05
carlosSteveA: don't worry, it's already changed05:06
carlosso it's not a problem there05:06
dilysMerge to rocketfuel@canonical.com/launchpad--devel--0: forward-compatibility for functional test machinery (patch-920)05:07
ddaalifeless: can you please remind me where I can find the source code for the company-internal tla?05:09
lifelessddaa: people.nny.com/~robertc/rbtcollins@hotmail.com05:10
lifelessor more easily, in my home dir on chinstrap05:10
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ddaaI meant the namespace, the location is already registered in my stuff.05:11
lifelessjust grab the tarball05:11
BradBlulu__: ping!05:26
lulu__BradB: hey Brad!05:27
BradBlulu__: hi :) i'm about to make the email validation change. have a min to test in about 2 mins?05:27
lulu__sure Brad05:27
SteveAlifeless: mailed you the zope svn details05:29
BradBlulu__: ok, it's changed, you can go ahead and try it out.05:29
BradBit prevents @ubuntu.com and @ubuntulinux.org addresses05:29
lulu__BradB: ok.05:29
SteveAwhat does it do if you use one of those?05:29
SteveAsame as if you don't include an "@" ?05:30
BradBSteveA: yes05:30
SteveAgreat05:30
carlosSteveA: I have the basic daemon done05:30
SteveAcarlos: great05:30
carlosbut I'm having problems with cached data05:30
carlosfirst import is done05:30
carlosbut if I add a new one from launchpad05:30
carlosthe daemon does not see it05:31
lulu__BradB: vaildation check: error msg = The email address you specified is already in use or is not valid. Please choose another one.05:31
lulu__looks fine on my side.05:31
BradBcool. did you reg with a normal address too?05:31
BradBjust to be doubly sure.05:31
lulu__BradB: I have one spare mailing address to test :o)05:32
lulu__will do...05:32
BradBthanks05:32
SteveAcarlos: can I see the code?  mail it to me, perhaps05:32
carlossure05:32
BradBsabdfl: ping05:33
SteveABradB: you might need to actually phone mark05:34
carlosSteveA: sent05:34
lifelessmarks in a meeting just now05:34
BradBok05:34
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SteveAcarlos: module names should not contain a hyphen05:35
carlosright, I forgot it05:35
carloswill change it before commit05:35
SteveAalso...05:35
SteveAno bare except: without a comment05:36
SteveAand usually, you'll want to log a message, so use the logging api and set up a logger05:36
SteveAuse the logger api rather than printing things05:36
carlosSteveA: those prints are for debug 05:37
carlosthe code is not final05:37
SteveAto see an example of the logger api, look in lib/canonical/lucille/uploader/server.py05:37
carlosok05:37
carlosthanks05:37
SteveAsplit the run method up into various other methods -- at least one method for what is inside the loop05:37
SteveAperhaps05:38
SteveAmaybe not -- I think the print statements make it harder to follow, reading it05:38
SteveAyeah, I think having a method called inside the inner for loop would help readability05:38
carlosSteveA: if you want I could finish the daemon and then you could read it.. (with comments and excepts...)05:39
carlosSteveA: I was thinking on move that code inside launchpad/database/pofile.py05:39
carlosso more or less is the same05:40
lulu__BradB: ok - when I tried to join with a different full name and a current address (already used) it gave me "Our apologies " 404 error. Does our validation go on a combination of Full name and email address? to create a unique user?05:40
SteveAit is good style that you wrote it using a small amount of code in the "if __name__ == '__main__':" part, and made it instantiate a class, rather than using many functions. 05:40
carlossomething like pofile.doRawImport() and potemplate.doRawImport()05:40
BradBlulu__: you login with an email address, so that's as unique as it gets05:41
SteveAcarlos: also, don't sleep after importing05:41
SteveAdo you remember the control flow I wrote down in our meeting?05:41
carlosSteveA: yeah, but I need to change the code to be able to do it05:42
SteveAwhile True:05:42
SteveA    if file_to_import:05:42
SteveA        import_file()05:42
SteveA    else:05:42
SteveA        sleep(1 minute)05:42
SteveAthis way, there is no unnecessary sleeping05:42
dilysMerge to thelove@canonical.com/bazaar--devo--1.1: fix apply-changeset with no target parameter, bug #3584 (patch-3)05:42
lulu__BradB: yes - so it doesn't matter about display name field at all then. - so the vaildation error should not have been 404 error, it should have been the "this user already exists"....05:43
BradBlulu__: yes, that's a problem with the auth server though, i believe05:44
carlosok05:44
lulu__BradB: ok. I will need spiv to clear out my test addresses - do you have others u can test?05:45
BradBlulu__: lulu@bbnet.ca :) (I have a catchall email so anything@bbnet.ca works :)05:45
SteveAcarlos: the zopeless transaction manager needs to clear the cache and maybe join the transaction on a new transaction, that is, after a commit or an abort05:47
SteveAlifeless: is this what you had to do in your scripts?05:47
SteveAI think we should change the zopeless transaction manager to do this, and not do this in the scripts.05:47
carlosSteveA: If I don't force the commit, the transaction is aborted by default05:48
carlosso that should be also changed05:48
SteveAno05:48
SteveAthat is good05:48
SteveAa commit is serious business05:49
lifelessSteveA: what ?05:49
SteveAyou don't want that happening without saying so05:49
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SteveAlifeless: there was bob2's script that wasn't doing things right on the second transaction05:49
SteveAyou / he fixed it05:49
lifelessI fixed it.05:49
SteveAdo you think the fix should move into the zopeless transaction manager05:49
SteveA?05:49
lifelessit wasn't joined the connection data adapter to the new transaction.05:49
lifeless*joining*05:49
lifelessit is in the zopeless transaction manager.05:50
SteveAyour fix is in the zopeless transaction manager?05:50
SteveAokay, I see it in there05:51
SteveAmaybe we need to nuke the sqlos cache as well05:51
SteveAthanks lifeless05:51
carlosSteveA: how could I nuke it?05:53
SteveAcarlos: with some evil code05:56
SteveAI need to look into it a bit05:56
carlosok05:56
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lifelessSteveA: wouldn't have been muhc point patching around the problem ...05:58
BradBcprov: ping06:00
dilysNew Malone bug #111: "Functional doctest diff output is incorrect", submitted by Brad Bollenbach06:09
dilyshttps://dogfood.ubuntu.com/malone/bugs/11106:09
cprovBradB: pong06:10
BradBcprov: can you take a look at bug # 111 please? i fear the diff output situation is worse now. :/06:11
cprovBradB: sure06:11
BradBthanks06:11
cprovBradB: do you mean malone ? it returns http://notready.ubuntu.com/06:14
cprovBradB: btw, what is this ?06:15
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BradBcprov: the URL is above06:16
cprovBradB: yep, I see ... is the launchpad.com obsolete ?06:18
BradBcprov: Yes, it has been for at least a week, I think.06:19
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cprovBradB: ok, I'm aware of this bug related to <BLANKLINE>, I've added myself in CC list and will wrok on it til ES-Conf06:23
BradBcprov: The only bug related to <BLANKLINE> that I know if is if you go into a test, and replace a <BLANKLINE> with a ..., the test will fail (last I tried that.) This behaviour is something I've definitely never seen before. :)06:25
carlosSteveA: what does __used_for__ inside a class?06:27
cprovBradB: I mean a bug inside my difflib patch, the test is correct, it should failed as it did, just the presented diff is wrong, did you get my point ?06:28
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SteveAcarlos: it is for documentation06:29
carlosok06:29
SteveAit tells you what its self.context is supposed to be like06:29
BradBcprov: ok06:29
kikoBradB, cprov: I reposted to python-dev06:33
kikoI forgot to CC: you though :-(06:33
dilysMerge to thelove@canonical.com/bazaar--devo--1.1: rename tree-lint to lint (patch-4)06:35
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dilysMerge to thelove@canonical.com/bazaar--devo--1.1: when suggesting files be added, do not suggest taglines, closes bug #4257 (patch-5)06:41
dilysMerge to rocketfuel@canonical.com/pyarch--devel--0.5: revision-files support baz and tla archive formats (patch-55)06:55
carlosSteveA: ping07:07
ddaalifeless: since I expect you are not going to read the description of the bugzilla bug I just created, I tell it to you directly. The version string of baz devel builds should contain additional information (e.g. the patchlevel) for user support.07:19
lifelessddaa: dude, I read all the baz bugs.07:19
ddaaEven those you already know about?07:19
ddaadescription != summary07:20
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lifelessddaa: dude, yes.07:39
lulu__night all :o)07:39
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BradBAnyone know why source package name + distro doesn't uniquely identify a source package? Is SP + DR required to uniquely identify an SP?08:06
elmoerr, yes08:08
elmodpkg has two versions in ubuntu, one in warty, one in hoary08:08
elmofor example08:09
BradBok08:10
BradBWhat do we lose if an SP points to a DR instead of merely a D?08:16
BradBelmo: Is SPR + D unique?08:18
elmooh, blah, sorry I'm being confused by mark's insane terminology08:18
dilysMerge to thelove@canonical.com/bazaar--devo--1.1: unlock the revision in commits if gpg signature fails, to prevent later errors. fixes bug #3482 (patch-6)08:18
elmoSP+D probably is unique08:18
BradBelmo: It isn't though. :/08:19
elmoSPR +D isn't08:19
elmoBradB: isn't in practice, or isn't in the SQL?08:19
BradBIt isn't in practice.08:19
elmoerr, xample?08:19
BradBI can't give you a very good answer, because I'm still trying to understand why this db schema is sane, but here's a blurb from a mail Mark sent to lp@ not long ago, related to how to figure out how a user can pick the correct sourcepackage to report a bug on in a distro:08:21
BradB> Breakage isn't really *required*. We could let the user enter the source08:21
BradB> package name, and assign it to the "obvious choice" which would be the08:21
BradB> source package with that name *last uploaded to that distribution*. The08:21
BradB> maintainer would then be in a good position to reassign the bug to the08:21
BradB> "other" sourcepackage with the same name, since the maintainer is going08:21
BradB> to be painfully aware of its existence, since that will be what he has08:21
BradB> forked off or what has forked off him.08:21
sabdfljbailey's salary reqs?08:21
sabdfloww ;-)08:21
BradBsabdfl!08:22
BradBsabdfl: got a few minutes to discuss a few things?08:22
sabdflyes, what's your number?08:24
BradB+1.514.963.256708:26
elmoDUDE, that is an EXCESSIVE salary req08:27
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dilysMerge to rocketfuel@canonical.com/launchpad--devel--0: No more stuff in soyuz.browser. All classes has been moved too launchpad.browser (package.py and distro.py). The zcmls was also changed to import the view class from the right place. (patch-921)08:32
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dilysMerge to rocketfuel@canonical.com/launchpad--devel--0: Added the raw po/pot import daemon (patch-922)08:42
sabdflso sp +d is not unique in reality08:51
sabdflsay for example in hoary we start the dev process using package foo from debian08:51
sabdflthen at some stage we upload our own version08:51
sabdflthese are *different* sourcepackages08:51
sabdflwith the same name08:51
sabdflin the same distro08:51
sabdfle voila08:51
sabdflsame goes for sp + dr08:51
sabdflreality is just ugly, there is no way to work around it08:52
sabdflBradB: incoming call08:54
BradBok08:57
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BradBSPR + DR08:59
BradBIf /that's/ not unique, we're all doomed.08:59
BradBBehind the scenes, Malone would be smart enough to create the assignment and the infestation. Afterall, getting bugs reported without having any clue about affected versions is just a pain.09:00
sabdflyes, that's unique09:01
sabdflbut not realistic to expect users to know it for, eg, filing bug reports09:02
sabdflBradB: what's your canonical email?09:02
BradBbrad.bollenbach09:02
BradBfor your phone's address book? :P09:02
sabdflyes :-)09:03
BradBheh09:03
BradBgah!09:06
BradBi lost network for a bit, sorry09:06
BradBsabdfl: ^09:06
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dilysNew Malone bug #112: "Functional doctest generator breaks on cve ref add test", submitted by Brad Bollenbach10:43
dilyshttps://dogfood.ubuntu.com/malone/bugs/11210:43
dilysMerge to rocketfuel@canonical.com/launchpad--devel--0: reconnect the wires so that CVE ref adding and editing works again after the web link/cve ref refactoring that happened not too long ago (patch-923)10:58
BradBsabdfl: You said it's expected that the maintainer of foo has to go in and mark resolved all bugs that his brand new foo package upload fixes, right?11:10
sabdflyes11:10
sabdflso if ubuntu/hoary has a package foo inherited from somewhere else, with bugs11:10
sabdfland the maintainer uploads a new package11:10
sabdflthen he can mark those bugs fixed11:11
BradBit gets a bit weird if a user files a bug-with-patch using the older source package of the same name, but i guess the maintainer'll realize that such things will happen when they upload a newly created package for foo11:13
sabdflyes11:39
sabdflbasically, because life is shit, we can't have it perfect every time11:39
sabdflif there was a law saying nobody could repeat a source package name, then this would be easy11:39
sabdflbut there isn't11:39
sabdfland besides, if that law existed, then a bunch of things would be very difficult for the distro team11:39
sabdflevery time they wanted to inherit a package they would have to give it a new name11:40
BradByeah, i can see why11:40
BradByeah11:40
SteveAthere are many times in different pieces of software I'd like a "disambiguate" function.  If there's just one of something, it shows you it as simply as possible.  If there are several, it shows you the most appropriate distinguishing feature.11:50
SteveAThis is a problem in schooltool, for example, when you have several students who share the same names.11:50
BradBSteveA: the biggest problem is that user's generally aren't literate enough to be able to choose a precise version on which to file the bug. if they were able to do that, all would be well.11:52
SteveAthis will improve when we get more OS integration11:55
SteveAyou know, the "report a bug on this app" that goes into the issue tracker, and might make its way to the bug tracker11:56
SteveAI missed the word "menu item" in there11:56
BradB:)11:56
BradByeah, that'd be really neat11:56
SteveAwe'll be doing that11:57
SteveAubuntu will be the best supported os out there11:57

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