-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello,
As some of you may have heard, the database @ savannah got in a bad state (well, Beuc doesn't thiink much so, but anyways.. ;-) which I'm mainly attributing to people kludging it, but also the lack of error recovery in the back-end sv_* scripts. If you don't have root@ going to /dev/null, you should catch a lot of the errors from userx, but for a long time, we did, and database<->system synchronisation became a mess (without us knowing), with users & groups missing all over the place, and other `nicities'. What I would like to commit after the 1.0.4 release (most of which is available in administration's viewcvs @ savannah) is something like this: - race-safe locking (flock) for all file i/o - a Savannah::Logger module (or Logging, if you want) logging facility which is used throughout the backend, instead of all of them doing their own (sometimes) custom opening/locking/etc. - rid use of backticks and use system(...) == 0 or die constructs instead. - more unless($debug) constructs, as some userx stuff is still geing done in debug mode This - minus the log facility and the debug stuff - has shown us a lot of errors in the database, which sometimes goes un-noticed. (If you want some raw info on this, please mail me.) Might be handy for other sites, too. :-) Any comments/flames/etc? 8-) Best, Elfyn - -- Elfyn McBratney beu on irc.freenode.net/savannah.[non]gnu.org PGP Key ID: 0x456548B4 PGP Key Fingerprint: 29D5 91BB 8748 7CC9 650F 31FE 6888 0C2A 4565 48B4 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBVrowaIgMKkVlSLQRAvO0AJ42Q1OnEFjibqJkkWR7ZLCsqbUFYACdHtQg Aw7kCMDwXcY7O/BxHOTKpUM= =xMl1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
