Thanks so much for all of your help with this Daniel. The Planet feeds have been a bit neglected for a long while but I know that the people who read them really really appreciate that we keep them going. The new version is really nice and has fixed a couple weird issues we've been having.
To 2.0! On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Daniel Zahn <dz...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi, > > i am planning to replace the current Planet Wikimedia software early next > week. > > For those who might not even know planet: What is planet? --> > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Planet_Wikimedia > > This is the current English planet as an example: --> > http://en.planet.wikimedia.org/ > > The original planet software we have used up until now is > unfortunately unmaintained and not available as a distribution package > nor was it puppetized. > > First there was the original planet software (planetplanet.org), then > development stopped and then later it was continued as Planet 2.0. > Though there is also "Planet Venus", " "a radical refactoring of > Planet 2.0", and that is available as an Ubuntu package in universe :) > > --> http://intertwingly.net/code/venus/ , > http://packages.ubuntu.com/da/precise/planet-venus > > --- > quote from http://lwn.net/Articles/421348/: > > ".. However, Planet's development seems to have slowed considerably — > if not entirely stopped. The last updates in Jeff Waugh's repository > are dated early 2007. > > Development seems to have carried on, somewhat quietly, with Planet > Venus. It's not reflected on the Planet site at all, but digging > through the mailing lists one finds development has continued under > the name Venus or Planet Venus. Venus is "a radical refactoring of > Planet 2.0," and development discussions continue on the old Planet > mailing lists."... > --- > > Planet Venus uses html5lib, XSLT and Django templates to parse the > feeds and create HTML. You can read more about it here: > http://planet.wmflabs.org/html/ > > And here is a nice .svg showing the architecture is uses to parse > feeds: http://planet.wmflabs.org/html/venus.svg > > I had this running in labs for a while at http://planet.wmflabs.org/ > and puppetized it. > > You can find the puppet code in ./manifests/role/planet.pp and > ./manifests/misc/planet.pp in the operations/puppet git repository. > And recent changes can be found under topic branch "planet". > > > https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=operations/puppet.git;a=blob;f=manifests/role/planet.pp;hb=HEAD > > > https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=operations/puppet.git;a=blob;f=manifests/misc/planet.pp;hb=HEAD > > Additionally, with the help of James Alexander (thanks!), we recently > went through a major cleanup of feed URLs, fixing lots of > redirected/moved feed URLs and removed broken feeds. > > This can be found here: > > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Planet_Wikimedia#Requests_for_Update_or_Removal > which also links to gerrit. > > The new planet is already up here on a production host now: > > http://zirconium.wikimedia.org/planet/ > > The English planet looks like this: > http://zirconium.wikimedia.org/planet/en/ > > That index.html page will disappear, it is just there to link to the > different language planets for testing. So to get it live i will just > switch DNS to point to the zirconium host and make the index redirect > to the page on meta, as it does now. > > The feeds are currently all updated at 00:00 UTC via cron. > > If you see any issues with that, please speak up soon. > > And have a nice weekend, > > Daniel > -- > Daniel Zahn <dz...@wikimedia.org> > Operations Engineer > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- James Alexander Manager, Merchandise Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
