Hi, We've tested a couple of things on the askbot staging instance that I think could really improve the performance of askfedora: 1. Use python-django-post_office as email back end[1]: We run a cron job to send out mails periodically using post-office asynchronously. This reduces the delay in comment posting and operations quite a bit. 2. Send periodic reminders to request people to accept the best answer for questions they've asked.[2] This should hopefully reduce the number of "unanswered" questions on the forum, specially questions that have been answered but no answer accepted. The changes are minor ones and could wait for the freeze to finish, but I expect them to improve usability quite a bit. What do you folks think? [1] https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/3763 [2] https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/3762 Apart from the puppet changes below, the ask production database will have to be updated to include python-post-office as explained here[3]. [3] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-post_office Puppet changes: diff --git a/modules/askbot/manifests/init.pp b/modules/askbot/manifests/init.pp index 98afdb0..0c6e01e 100644 --- a/modules/askbot/manifests/init.pp +++ b/modules/askbot/manifests/init.pp @@ -26,11 +26,8 @@ class askbot { package { "python-psycopg2": ensure => present } - if $puppetEnvironment == 'staging' { - # cron job for reminders: #3762 - package { "django-post_office": - ensure => present - } + package { "django-post_office": + ensure => present } fedmsg::certificate { "askbot": service => "askbot", @@ -76,19 +73,17 @@ class askbot { target => '/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/askbot/static/admin/', } - if $puppetEnvironment == 'staging' { - file { "/etc/cron.d/cron-ask-send-reminders": - owner => "root", - group => "root", - mode => 0644, - source => "puppet:///askbot/cron-ask-send-reminders", - } - file { "/etc/cron.d/cron-post-office-send-mail": - owner => "root", - group => "root", - mode => 0644, - source => "puppet:///askbot/cron-post-office-send-mail" - } + file { "/etc/cron.d/cron-ask-send-reminders": + owner => "root", + group => "root", + mode => 0644, + source => "puppet:///askbot/cron-ask-send-reminders", + } + file { "/etc/cron.d/cron-post-office-send-mail": + owner => "root", + group => "root", + mode => 0644, + source => "puppet:///askbot/cron-post-office-send-mail" } exec { 'askbot_collectstatic': diff --git a/modules/askbot/templates/settings.erb b/modules/askbot/templates/settings.erb index f04615a..3dc543a 100644 --- a/modules/askbot/templates/settings.erb +++ b/modules/askbot/templates/settings.erb @@ -37,10 +37,7 @@ EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX = '' EMAIL_HOST='bastion' EMAIL_PORT='25' EMAIL_USE_TLS=False -EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend' -<% if environment == "staging" %> EMAIL_BACKEND = 'post_office.EmailBackend' -<% end %> #incoming mail settings #after filling out these settings - please @@ -187,9 +184,7 @@ INSTALLED_APPS = ( #'followit', # 'avatar', #requires setting of MEDIA_ROOT and MEDIA_URL -<% if environment == "staging" %> 'post_office', -<% end %> ) MEDIA_ROOT='/var/lib/askbot/upfiles/ask' -- Thanks, Warm regards, Ankur: "FranciscoD" Please only print if necessary. Looking to contribute to Fedora? Look here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Join_SIG http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha http://ankursinha.in/blog
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