Report

I incorporated Craig's comments into the draft of the web roadmap report and sent the result around for comment. I feel that this project is essentially done and could be quickly wrapped up.

Then I turned my attention to my bag of unsolved problems and pulled out bouncefile, which is supposed to delete users from our public mailing lists whose email messages bounce. For some reason the script doesn't work. The problem seems to be that Majordomo isn't handling the delete requests and I haven't yet been able to figure out why.

Two Things

As I mentioned, I had second thoughts on my LDAP Manager fix. I made one change, tested it, moved it to develop, yadda yadda, and requested it be moved to test again. I revised the ext command to eliminate the alternate phone number and use the freed up space to widen some fields that are sometimes too narrow to hold their contents. This was done at the request of Lisa Sherbert, but I had a similar idea in the back of my head for a while.

Back in the Saddle

I'm back after six days off. I went through my email to separate the wheat from the chaff and came up with a list of work. Harry pointed out that the LDAP management fix got removed from development. I looked at that and got cold feet (again) about my fix. I'll make it less drastic tomorrow and resubmit. I've had problems commiting to the Zope cvs repository. I think I've resolved those problems. There was a small problem with my search terms cron job caused by the renaming of the center site. I fixed that. Jim asked about the twogyro error message. I reproduced the error and mailed the result to him and Mike.

Documentation

I submitted a move request for my LDAP Manager fix and sent Steve my suggestions for goals during the coming year. I talked to Harry about the ldap operations I was still unclear about: updating permissions and changing the schemas. We walked through the process and I've written it up as a text file (ldap_instructions.txt) which I will put online as a new procedure.

Fixed Bug

I got the fix for the LDAP manager to work and moved it to to the other instances on battra and onto the development system. I was about to submit a move request, but got cold feet and want to do a little more testing.

Problem Found but Not Solved

I found the cause of LDAP problem. The cause is that the list comparison subroutine is comparing a list that has been split accross newlines with one that hasn't. I've tried to write Python code to get it right, but so far haven't succeeded.

Bug Chasing

I chased down several bugs today. The first, an error message from the script that updates the curators list, went away when the script was rerun, so I took it to be a temporary error. The second, a bug in netstats, was a disk full problem again. The tird, a bug in the ldap manager has sommering to do with the carLicense field. The code erroneously thinks it needs to be updated and then chokes when it tries to update it. I'm still trying to track this down.

TWiki and Zope

The morning was spent checking out two TWiki problems for NVO and Sage. Neither looked like a real problem and I told the TWiki owners that. In the afternoon I looked for the bug in the ldap manager that Ran reported. Oddly enough my debugging writes say the changed field is the car license number when I edit the mailstop field. It will take some more digging to get to the bottom of this.

IDL Problems

There was a problem in running the twogyro script on production. It looks like the reason is that the default version of IDL is different. I hope the confuion will be resolved tomorrow.

Script Testing

I spent the day testing the twogyro script. I uncovered two problems, one mine and one somebody else's. My problem was I was assuming the script name didn't have a path on it. So I added code to strip it off. And the idl script that my script called has a bug in it. So we're asking the author to correct it.