[UCIMC-Tech] Website Newswires Not Updating, etc
Mike Lehman
rebelmike at earthlink.net
Thu Jan 3 19:04:06 UTC 2013
Chris,
Thanks for the update. Little point in doing things piecemeal, given the
limited resources.
I certainly have no problem continuing my editing and admin work, but my
tech chops are pretty non-existent. So put me down wherever that's fits
on the volunteer list.
How much is the paid Mollom subscription? If we need it to continue
anonymous, open publishing, then we need it. It's not IMC if it's not
anonymous, open publishing, so there shouldn't be too much debate on it,
unless the fee for Mollom is high. If so, then maybe we need Plan B, but
not sure what that would be at this point.
Short-term, if it's possible and we really don't have any other option
in getting things working again, it's reasonable to require user
registration as a temp measure. It's a bit of a compromise, but a few
other IMCs have done this under similar circumstances IIRC. It can't go
on indefinitely, as people might rumor-monger over that, but there's so
little global IMC stuff at the moment I'm not sure that would be much of
an issue. You do have to supply a valid email addy to register, but
that's no big deal under the circumstances and an email addy is hardly
identifying info, even if not specifically anonymous. I'd be happy to
write a message to that effect and post it if you want to go with this
as a stop-gap.
I think splitting between the news IMC site and the organizational IMC
site is a good idea. Too much conflation of the two is simply not a good
idea for reasons I can go into at length if people want me to. There's a
long backstory to it of which I am probably one of the few who knows the
history of where all the pieces fit together. There are good
journalistic, legal, and organizational reasons for us to continue
making that differentiation and I doubt that anyone else is likely even
aware of this need to maintain a separation, which having a separate
organizational site would help make clear.
I realize the BoD is probably as overwhelmed as everyone else in
addressing this. However, they should be aware that it is the website -
not the building, etc -- that defines us as an IMC. That makes it more
of a priority than people may initially realize.
Mike
On 1/3/2013 12:41 PM, Chris Ritzo wrote:
> It is sort of related. The database on the site is so huge that it
> makes it a problem to migrate. I updated the site a few weeks back to
> ensure that it would be secure, but problems remain. Creating content
> (such as events for the calendar) gives a WSOD now, and the site
> really need to have a Mollom paid subscription if we're going to
> continue supporting anonymous posting. There have been several
> instances of spam comments when the free subscription is overwhelmed.
> Cron is definitely not running automatically. The CiviCRM add-on is
> also messed up- I attempted an upgrade a while back and it removed the
> top Civi Menu, and recently I checked the old donation form which
> appeared to be broken as well.
>
> Rather than focus on these small issues like whether the global
> newswire is updating, we really need to gather a group of editors and
> admins to decide what to do for an upgrade to the site. Kristina W
> began working on this as an americorps member. As I see it, we need:
> - a relevant news site that preserves the open publishing component of
> the current site
> - a separate organizational website about the IMC
> - people to manage the sites and maintain them
>
> I'm open to being a part of this group if anyone else is willing. My
> guess from past experience- no one will step up and will just continue
> to expect volunteer techies to fix or build things. This is entirely
> unsustainable.
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Josh King <jking at chambana.net
> <mailto:jking at chambana.net>> wrote:
>
> Hi Mike,
>
> I imagine this is related to the site migration work that Chris is
> doing. I'll take a look at this problem specifically when I get a
> chance; I'm guessing that the periodic cron jobs are not being run for
> the site.
>
> On Thu 03 Jan 2013 12:12:42 PM EST, Mike Lehman wrote:
> > I wanted to check in again on this issue to see if anyone has had a
> > chance to see what's up. The website is basically non-functional for
> > readers at this point and has been since the 31st.
> >
> > One additional issue I've found since a few days back when this
> > started with the website update is that user account settings
> are also
> > not accessible. I get this error message:
> > Fatal error: Class 'CRM_Contact_BAO_ContactType' not found in
> >
> /home/docs/ucimc.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/drupal/civicrm.module
> <http://ucimc.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/drupal/civicrm.module>
> > on line 713
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > On 12/31/2012 9:33 AM, Mike Lehman wrote:
> >> More follow-up. Someone posted a continuing event to the Community
> >> Calendar.
> >> http://ucimc.org/content/middle-market
> >> It also does not appear to update the public calendar view when
> fresh
> >> entries are posted, as with the Newswires.
> >> Mike
> >>
> >> On 12/30/2012 11:44 AM, Mike Lehman wrote:
> >>> There seems to be some issue with the Newswires updating from the
> >>> database. We've received several new articles (along with new spam
> >>> -- deleted), but these aren't visible on the Newswire on the front
> >>> page. They also don't appear on the separate Local and Global
> >>> Newswire pages. I looked at them to see if there was some admin
> >>> action needed, but they appear to be the exactly same as older
> >>> articles posted before the website update, which do appear
> properly.
> >>>
> >>> Also, the Recent Comments have disappeared from front page,
> not even
> >>> a link to them. However, they are available here:
> >>> http://www.ucimc.org/comments/recent
> >>> And this Comments page does appear to be updating properly, as
> >>> comments posted since the website update do appear on it, unlike
> >>> with the article pages as noted above.
> >>> Mike
> >>>
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