Generally the Cron plugin will run if there's still execution time for
1 second since starting the Action processing. If you want to change
this (such as disabling, 0 seconds, or maybe running bigger chunks,
for like 4 seconds) you can do this, where 'n' is time in seconds.
addPlugin('Cron', array('secs_per_action', n));
Add 'rel_to_pageload'=>false to the array if you want to run the queue
for a certain amount of seconds _despite_ maybe already having run that
long in the previous parts of Action processing.
Perhaps you want to run the cron script remotely, using a machine capable
of background processing (or locally, to avoid running daemon processes),
simply do an HTTP GET request to the route /main/cron of your GNU social.
Setting secs_per_action to 0 in the plugin config will imply that you run
all your queue handling by calling /main/cron (which runs as long as it can).
/main/cron will output "0" if it has finished processing, "1" if it should
be called again to complete processing (because it ran out of time due to
PHP's max_execution_time INI setting).
The Cron plugin also runs events as close to hourly, daily and weekly
as you get, based on the opportunistic method of running whenever a user
visits the site. This means of course that the cron events should be as
fast as possible, not only to avoid delaying page load for users but
also to minimize the risk of running into PHP's max_execution_time. One
suggestion is to only use the events to add new queue items for later processing.
These events are called CronHourly, CronDaily, CronWeekly - however there
is no guarantee that all events will execute, so some kind of failsafe,
transaction-ish method must be implemented in the future.
To make the StatusNet::addPlugin() accept only arrays,
the lib/default.php had to be changed because all plugins
had 'null' as default value instead of an array.
If you're using XMPP by setting $config['xmpp'][*] then you should do:
addPlugin('Xmpp', $config['xmpp']);
because setting it directly in $config[''] won't do anything.
Also, default resource for XMPP is now 'gnusocial'. If you want something
more random, set it in your addPlugin config array.
_flow_ reported on IRC that install.php had stopped working. This was
because default plugins had been put into two separate lists, and the
list with AuthCrypt was never loaded when performing an installation.
Core plugins cannot be disabled.
I also removed the Memcache autodetection thing since it should be
solved in a more elegant manner.
We're also now using $config['image']['jpegquality'] to determine the
quality setting for resized images.
To set Avatar max size, adjust $config['avatar']['maxsize']
The getAvatar call now throws exceptions too. Related changes applied.
Now let's move Profile->avatarUrl to the Avatar class!
It may be a bad experience for new users to immediately when trying
out the service be asked for their geographical position. Instead,
let them opt-in for this behaviour.
L10n/i18n updates.
Superfluous whitespace removed.
Add FIXME for a few i18n issues I couldn't solve this quickly.
Takes care of documentation for all core code added in merge of "people tags" feature (Commit:e75c9988ebe33822e493ac225859bc593ff9b855).
$config['site']['logperf'] = true; // to record & dump total hits of each type and the runtime to syslog
$config['site']['logperf_detail'] = true; // very verbose -- dump the individual cache keys and queries as they get used (may contain private info in some queries)
Seeing 180 cache gets on a timeline page seems not unusual currently; since these run in serial, even relatively small roundtrip times can add up heavily.
We should consider ways to reduce the number of round trips, such as more frequently storing compound objects or the output of processing in memcached.
Doing parallel multi-key lookups could also help by collapsing round-trip times, but might not be easy to fit into SN's object model. (For things like streams this should actually work pretty well -- grab the list, then when it's returned go grab all the individual items in parallel and return the list)
We can make a lot of HTTP requests from the server side. This change
adds some configuration options for using an HTTP proxy, which can
cache hits from multiple sites (good for status.net-like services, for example).
If a cache entry is dependent on the code that's running, upgrading
(or enabling/disabling plugins) can generate hard-to-track
inconsistencies.
This change adds a close-to-unique fingerprint of the running code to
some cache keys, so that if the fingerprint changes, the old values
are ignored and new values are used.
If the automated uniqueness fails, an administrator can add an extra
config value, $config['site']['build'], that's thrown into the key also.
If a cache entry is dependent on the code that's running, upgrading
(or enabling/disabling plugins) can generate hard-to-track
inconsistencies.
This change adds a close-to-unique fingerprint of the running code to
some cache keys, so that if the fingerprint changes, the old values
are ignored and new values are used.
If the automated uniqueness fails, an administrator can add an extra
config value, $config['site']['build'], that's thrown into the key also.
This option may be useful for intranet sites that don't have direct access to the internet, as they may be unable to successfully fetch those resources.
This will apply to *ALL* plugins in *ALL* languages, so should probably only be used when doing site customization...
You'd probably do:
$config['site']['locale_path'] = '/srv/awesome/data/locale';
$config['plugins']['locale_path'] = '/srv/awesome/data/locale';
with a structure like:
srv/
awesome/
data/
locale/
en/
LC_MESSAGES/
statusnet.po
OpenID.po
AnonymousFave.po
etc, all alongside each other. You could separate plugins from the core if you like.
Where locale files have not already been generated, you can build one for a plugin like so:
php scripts/update_po_templates.php --plugin=MyPlugin
and pull out the template file:
plugins/MyPlugin/locale/MyPlugin.pot
Edit that (make sure you at least set the CHARSET, probably to UTF-8) and save your customized .po
files into the structure as above, and use msgfmt to generate .mo files for final output.
Two prongs here:
* We attempt to enable SNI on the SSL stream context with the appropriate hostname... This requires PHP 5.3.2 and OpenSSL that supports the TLS extensions. Unfortunately this doesn't seem to be working in my testing.
* If set $config['http']['curl'] = true, we'll use the CURL backend if available. In my testing on Ubuntu 10.04, this works. No guarantees on other systems.
I'm not enabling CURL mode by default just yet; want to make sure there's no other surprises.
Currently only one custom theme may be uploaded per site, saved with the name 'custom' and stored into the local/themes subdirectory.
Administrators can upload a .ZIP archive containing a theme through the design admin panel; its contents are validated to ensure that only legit files are saved, and a 5M size quota is enforced.
Theme upload requires the zip extension for PHP; if not present, theme uploading is disabled by default.
Uploading and the custom CSS can be controlled via $config['theme_upload']['enabled'] and $config['custom_css']['enabled'].
Configurable directory/path/server for 'local' subdirectory (currently only as used for themes; local plugins not yet switched over)
Can set $config['local']['dir'] etc; not currently exposed in the admin panels.
Per-site directories on a separate themes server could be set up such as:
$config['local']['dir'] = '/path/to/themes/local/' . $_nickname;
$config['local']['server'] = 'themes.example.com';
$config['local']['path'] = '/local/' . $_nickname;
$config['local']['ssl'] = 'never';
Added a 2-second default timeout for XMLRPC/extended pings, configurable as [ping,timeout].
No longer repeating the entire ping section if we had an HTTP error during a submission.
For now, dropping the bad item and continuing on with others. (Todo: individual retry and cleaner discards of blacklisted broken-for-now sites.)
Users and administrators can set how long an URL can be before it's
shortened, and how long a notice can be before all its URLs are
shortened. They can also turn off shortening altogether.
Squashed commit of the following:
commit d136b39011
Author: Evan Prodromou <evan@status.net>
Date: Mon Apr 26 02:39:00 2010 -0400
use site and user settings to determine when to shorten URLs
commit 1e1c851ff3
Author: Evan Prodromou <evan@status.net>
Date: Mon Apr 26 02:38:40 2010 -0400
add a method to force shortening URLs
commit 4d29ca0b91
Author: Evan Prodromou <evan@status.net>
Date: Mon Apr 26 02:37:41 2010 -0400
static method for getting best URL shortening service
commit a9c6a3bace
Author: Evan Prodromou <evan@status.net>
Date: Mon Apr 26 02:37:11 2010 -0400
allow 0 in numeric entries in othersettings
commit 767ff2f7ec
Author: Evan Prodromou <evan@status.net>
Date: Mon Apr 26 02:36:46 2010 -0400
allow 0 or blank string in inputs
commit 1e21af42a6
Author: Evan Prodromou <evan@status.net>
Date: Mon Apr 26 02:01:11 2010 -0400
add more URL-shortening options to othersettings
commit 869a6be0f5
Author: Evan Prodromou <evan@status.net>
Date: Sat Apr 24 14:22:51 2010 -0400
move url shortener superclass to lib from plugin
commit 9c0c9863d5
Author: Evan Prodromou <evan@status.net>
Date: Sat Apr 24 14:20:28 2010 -0400
documentation and whitespace on UrlShortenerPlugin
commit 7a1dd5798f
Author: Evan Prodromou <evan@status.net>
Date: Sat Apr 24 14:05:46 2010 -0400
add defaults for URL shortening
commit d259c37ad2
Author: Evan Prodromou <evan@status.net>
Date: Sat Apr 24 13:40:10 2010 -0400
Add User_urlshortener_prefs
Add a table for URL shortener prefs, a corresponding class, and the
correct mumbo-jumbo in statusnet.ini to make everything work.
Conflicts:
actions/imsettings.php
lib/jabber.php
Made a quick attempt to merge the new JID validation into the XmppPlugin, have not had a chance to test that version live yet.
Should also move over the test cases.
I swapped the settings from negative to positive ($config['queue']['stomp_transactions'] = false rather than $config['queue']['stomp_no_transactions'] = true), gave them defaults (both on for best ActiveMQ experience), and added notes to the README about configuring them.
