On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 22:50:27 +0530 Rahul Sundaram <metherid@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > * If FAS is unavailable, how does askbot behave? No one can auth? or > > falls back on a local file? or ? > > Askbot has openid support. Will support using Google, Twitter etc as > you can see in http://askbot.org. Nice. > > * Do we have any idea how much load/capacity this will take? I > > guess it will depend on how much it takes off and how much people > > use it. Are posts/answers stored in db? Or on the filesystem? > > Stored in the db. Supports MySQL or Postgres. Postgres is > recommended by upstream since it supports full text search. I don't > know how much load it will take. I have tested it but not with > thousands of users. Yeah, thats hard to say for sure. > > * Will there be any guidelines or the like for content? Should all > > questions be fedora related? Do we want to remove posts that are > > offensive? (Not a technical issue, but thought I would mention > > it, it would be good to have guidelines for moderation before > > content appears to meet people's expectations) > > We would recommend people post Fedora related questions in the FAQ but > if there is a community to answer general open source questions, that > is alright too. As people vote up/vote down answers, answer other > questions etc and gain points they incrementally get more > administrative access in the forum and become moderators. Moderators > have very similar rights to admins. Offensive posts (both questions > and answers) can be flagged by anyone and administrators/moderators > can close it and suspend/block users as necessary. Sure, just wanting to know if there were general guidelines thought of already, or if they will evolve from the community. > > > > * Are updates of the app pretty transparent? ie, just yum update? > > or do they require database changes? > > Just yum update so far. If db changes are necessary, it requires two > commands (backup db for safety) > > * python manage.py syncdb > * python manage.py migrate ok. > > > > * Is there any security history for the application? Have their been > > security issues and have they been fixed in a timely manner? > > No security issues so far but upstream has been responsive to issues > we have reported and fixed them within days. Thats a good sign. > > * Is there themeing available? Would we want to involve the design > > folks in making a fedora branded theme for it? > > Yes indeed. This is my TODO list > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Askbot > > Upstream theming support is not awesome but good enough for our > purposes and upstream is willing to work on enhancing is as needed Cool. well, I think this sounds like a interesting and potentially useful resource, so I would be happy to sponsor it and work with you on it. I guess the next step is a publictest instance to set things up and do some further testing. Then, once thats good, we can work on adding it into puppet and a stg node, then finally production. I will see about getting you a publictest in the next few days. kevin
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