What do you find difficult on a Dreamhack?

[sophie]

Hi all!

As the maintainer of the Dreamhacks service, I'm curious about how everybody's getting on with it and whether there's anything people would really like to have to make dev work easier.

For example, one thing I'm going to be working on is a way to make it easier to set up, start and stop the various auxiliary services that Dreamwidth uses, such as memcached, Gearman, and TheSchwartz. I'm hoping that this'll make it easier to work on bugs that need these services.

But I'd also really like to hear from people about the things they find most difficult when working on a Dreamhack. This can be anything - maybe our wiki's confusing or not quite up-to-date, or maybe you can't figure out the command you need to type to do something.

I want to make things as accessible as I can to everybody, new and experienced alike, so please let me know in the comments what you really wish was easier to do on a Dreamhack! I'll go through the comments later and see what I can do to help - for example, by programming a script for everybody to use on the server, editing the wiki, or simply answering a question if that's all that's needed!

Comments

[ninetydegrees]

I knew of this page but it didn't really help. I can put some workers in workers.conf then run them with $LJHOME/bin/worker-manager --debug and some things works but others don't, like sending community invites or PMs, and I don't know why. I know I'm doing something wrong. I just don't know what it is.

[fu]

Hmmm, now I'm wondering if we could structure the example workers.conf to provide different use cases.

Like, everything you need for imports to run in one group, everything you need for notification emails to run in another, everythingf or exports...

would that help?

[sophie]

Personally, I think that would be awesome. In fact, we should talk; it would be an awesome thing for the Dreamhack script I'm working on to be able to toggle groups on and off, and if we do this in a consistent manner we should be able to do this pretty well!

[fu]

I didn't think of taking it that far, that's a great idea! Yes let's talk about this ;-)