Re: A few admin issues

[Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>]

--- Youcef Rabah Rahal <y dot rahal at gmail dot com> wrote:
> 1- cvs2rss.py outputs its RSS file in ~arabeyes/htdocs/www/rss/. this
> script is run at every commit and thus is run by 'cvsuser'. However,
> the output dir belongs to 'arabeyes'... Is it hazardous to 'chmod g+w'
> it?

Have no idea.  Is there a reason why you want to run it as user 'cvsuser'
instead of 'arabeyes' ?

> 2- ml2rss.pl needs to be run everytime there's a new post on a mailing
> list. Where can I then plug it? Nadim, any idea?

There are some perl scripts that get run each and everytime an email is
received (~arabeyes/bin/mail/mail_archiver.pl).  This script gets called
from mailman and so we could stick into one of those files and/or piggyback
it as necessary.

> 3- Are we doing backup? Is so, how/when/where etc :)

Great question - last I heard that anmar was doing it though I have no
recent confirmation.

> 4- Some files are there for no obvious purpous:
> * ~arabeyes/bin/cvs/cvs_test.py
> * ~arabeyes/bin/www/koko !!!
> 
> What are they there for? Can we remove them?

Move (while preserving attributes (ie. cp -p)) to say ~arabeyes/REMOVE_this/
so as to see if anyone complains (in terms of scripts, etc).  If nothing
gets flagged for a week or so we can simply remove it (add a README file
with a list of which files came from which dirs just in case in that same
REMOVE_this dir).

> 5- Some files/dirs should probably be committed:
> * All the files under ~arabeyes/bin/cron (except wordlist_updater, that is)
> * What about the crontab?
> * Config file for Planet?
> * Proabably a few other things...

Fully agreed.  We started down this path and never completed and no one
picked up the slack.  If you have a list of them that need to be in the
repository, do please publish it and/or feel free to commit 'em.

> 6- Some files/dirs are duplicated:
> * ~arabeyes/scripts/ and ~arabeyes/bin/admin/backup. The latter seems
> to be modified with regard to the CVS version...

Let's do same as is noted for #4 above - move/copy the files and let's
see if anything breaks or anyone complains.
 
> I think it's very important to clear this situation. It took me some
> time to understand where/how things were organized, and that will
> happen again and again if we don't fix that soon... It is also
> important to commit modifications whenever there are any and avoid
> letting phoney files here and there ;)

Agreed 100% and I __really__ really want to thank you for taking the
initiative and time (and effort) to look into all of this.  'core' has
been non-existent of late and I don't see a change brewing (I'm just
too tired of playing the policeman all the time), so I'm not quite sure
what to do about the current lack of involvement; alas...

Thanks again & Salam.

 - Nadim

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