Code tour, 8/4-8/10

[denise]

This week we resolved 43 bugs, all of which were resolved FIXED. One's a security issue, which we decline to specify so other sites can have a chance to take the patch first. Welcome this week to new contributors carynb, badgerbag, and chemicallace.

None of these patches will be live until the next code push.

( Code tour, 8/4-8/10 )

update on 15914

[yvi]

Remember the 'blocking-launch-athon' (of which I am sure there will be a second version once a date for launch is set)?

http://tinyurl.com/cjw9wk - We are down to 43 bugs in total, 21 of which are still unassigned.

That's 5 fixes and 6 previously unassigned bugs taken up so far \o/ We can do it! :)

We also had three new people starting dev last week, which I count as a success for the second part.

Database configuration moved to config-private.pl

[afuna]

If you're using dw-nonfree for testing, especially on Dreamhacks, you probably noticed that every time we have to update config-local.pl, we end up breaking your dev environments. That is because the repository's config-local.pl, which contains a different database name, overwrites yours. There are ways around this, but really database configuration information is site/installation-specific, and should be in config-private.pl, not config-local.pl.

So we just committed a fix which moves the database information hash to config-private.pl for both the main DB and the schwartz (workers/ESN/etc) DB.

This means that your installation will break as before; but it will not break on subsequent updates. To fix it this one last time, first open up $LJHOME/docs/config-private.pl.txt, and look for %DBINFO and %THESCHWARTZ_DBS. Then copy these structures into $LJHOME/etc/config-private.pl; replace with your own DB and username.

Note: for Dreamhacks, it's going to be:

user => 'dh_username',
dbname => 'dreamhack_username',

underscore, not hyphen, and double-check that it's dh_*, dreamhack_*, and not dw_*, dreamwidth_* respectively.

If you're self-hosting, then change your user/dbname again, if applicable.