User:LFaraone/Work/2011-W6

Tasks done

• Combine Planet Laptop and Planet Sugar into one feed using Yahoo Pipes. (pipe published here)
• Footer link to Dashboard in Drupal
• Copy over database + files to www-staging.l.o from one.l.o

Notes

• Drupal is currently a point release behind (6.19 vs 6.20), are we handling upgrades or is GT?
  • Some other plugins, notably Google Analytics, are currently marked "not supported", and several others have updates available
• Attempts to migrate one database to www-staging resulted in a variety of odd failures:
  • Not all tables were migrated when restoring from webif via backup created from webif on one, but restoring www-staging was without problems.
  • Attempts to use mysqlimport resulted in Access Denied errors (for the specific tables, not in general)

  Eventually solved via command mysql -u drupal -p drupal < drupal-one.sql.

Future tasks

• Investigate the means by which we could import feeds a la planet.
  • We'll want to have a subset of Planet syndicated, subject to manual approval [medium, 3hr]

• Determine a migration path for URLs on the old blog.laptop.org instance to Drupal
  • Current URL schemes are incompatible.

• Figure out if we want to keep Wordpress for blog.l.o, and somehow integrate it with Drupal. This eliminates the above URL issue, but add new ones, namely:
  • Unify visual style. b.l.o looks decidedly un-one.l.o-like.
  • Single-user-login between Drupal and Wordpress.

• Duplicate database for www-staging if it turns out to be needed, double check this.

• Follow up on mailman migration with Ed et al. (talk with SJ/Adam re formulating specific rationale for upgrade)