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Redmine CUNY Academic Commons - Design/UX #18995 (New): Clarifying 'delete account' texthttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/189952023-10-06T23:06:22ZColin McDonald
<p>After discussing the deleted account problems in <a class="issue tracker-3 status-4 priority-4 priority-default" title="Support: Sites missing pages, menus, icons, banners (Reporter Feedback)" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/18982">#18982</a> during the community call today, we agreed we should strengthen/clarify the text and prompts on the Delete Account screen in Settings.</p>
<p>I've attached how it looks/reads right now, though of course this will change visually with the upcoming release.</p>
<p>Boone, for starters, can you help us confirm the content types that will be removed when an account is deleted? Posts, pages, uploaded media, files in any Group libraries, etc? Is it easy to get a list of those?</p>
<p>Then we will figure out how much to say on the screen itself, while linking out to documentation that covers the other deletion implications. We should at least say up front that before deleting your account, you should attempt to contact fellow admins of any jointly-managed Sites or Groups to ensure they have re-attributed anything they want to save before your deletion.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #18841 (New): Downtime planninghttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/188412023-09-14T23:27:45ZColin McDonald
<p>In light of recent issues with our server, we'd like to have a more concrete plan in place should the Commons experience significant downtime. Let's gather ideas, next steps, and preparatory materials here.</p>
<p>As a starting point, during the last few meetings we discussed establishing a Commons archive or backup. We need to hash out what that would mean:</p>
<p>- What content would we save and what wouldn't we?<br />- Would we save full site/group configurations (members, preferences, etc) prioritize Library and Media uploads, etc?<br />- Where would this archive live, and how would it be updated/tested/maintained?<br />- What would be the plan for using this in the event of an outage?<br />- Could we maintain an external list of site/group admin emails for emergency outreach?</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Bug #18213 (New): Google Analytics 4 migration documentation for usershttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/182132023-05-12T15:40:30ZBoone Gorgesboone@gorg.es
<p>Individual sites on the Commons can have their own Google Analytics tracking. See <a class="issue tracker-1 status-5 priority-4 priority-default closed" title="Bug: StatPress performance & migrate to per-site Google Analytics (Resolved)" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/10722">#10722</a>. Since <a class="issue tracker-3 status-5 priority-4 priority-default closed" title="Support: Google Analytics 4 tagging (Resolved)" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/13511">#13511</a>, we have supported Google Analytics 4 in addition to the legacy Universal Analytics. In Summer 2023, Google will be phasing out UA, so we should make some changes on the Commons:</p>
<p>1. Amend our help documentation to indicate that GA4 is the proper system to use, and to guide people on how to migrate their legacy UA accounts to GA4. Those users will then need to be directed on how to enter their new GA4 identifier in place of the old UA- identifier on their Commons sites.<br />2. We should change the language on the Commons dashboard panel so that it no longer indicates that both UA and GA4 are supported.<br />3. Scott, if you think it makes sense, we could build a system to build a list of sites using the old UA IDs. We can then either (a) email them, or (b) have something in the Commons (like an admin notice?) telling them to make the necessary changes, or (c) something else or some combination of these.</p>
<p>Scott, what do you think?</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Design/UX #17677 (New): Cataloguing notification typeshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/176772023-02-16T18:54:32ZBoone Gorgesboone@gorg.es
<p>Following up on a recent dev call, here's a list of unique notification types on the Commons:</p>
<pre>
| added_reader |
| bbp_new_reply |
| comment_mention |
| followedpaper_comment |
| followedpaper_edit |
| friendship_accepted |
| friendship_request |
| group_invite |
| membership_request_accepted |
| membership_request_rejected |
| member_promoted_to_admin |
| member_promoted_to_mod |
| mypaper_comment |
| new_at_mention |
| new_membership_request |
| new_message |
| new_wire_post |
| pending_booking |
</pre>
<p>We can eliminate several that are related to Social Paper: <code>added_reader</code>, <code>comment_mention</code>, <code>followedpaper_comment</code>, <code>followedpaper_edit</code>, <code>mypaper_comment</code>. In addition, <code>new_wire_post</code> is linked to a feature that we no longer have on the Commons. This leaves us with:</p>
<p>1. bbp_new_reply - Created by bbPress for user A when user B posts a reply to a forum topic or reply written by A. <br />2. friendship_accepted - Created by BP for user A when user B accepts a friendship request that A sent to B.<br />3. friendship_request - Created by BP for user A when user B sends a friendship request to A.<br />4. group_invite - Created by BP for user A when user B invites A to join a group.<br />5. membership_request_accepted - Created by BP for user A when A requests membership in a group, and the group's admin approves the request<br />6. membership_request_rejected - Created by BP for user A when A requests membership in a group, and the group's admin rejects the request<br />7. member_promoted_to_admin - Created by BP for user A when A is promoted in a group from 'member' to 'admin'<br />8. member_promoted_to_mod - Created by BP for user A when A is promoted in a group from 'member' to 'mod'<br />9. new_at_mention - Created by BP for user A when A is at-mentioned anywhere tracked by BuddyPress. Notably for our purpose, this includes blog posts, blog comments, forum posts.<br />10. new_membership_request - Created by BP for user A when A is the admin of a private group, and user B requests membership in that group<br />11. new_message - Created by BP for user A when A receives a private message<br />12. pending_booking - Created by the events-manager plugin for user A when user A has created an event with booking, and user B books for that event. events-manager is <strong>not</strong> a plugin that we run on the main site, so this must be something that happens on secondary sites</p>
<p>Of these, a number are purely informational. 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12 A right-hand notifications pane could have a message that summarizes the information ("So-and-so replied to your forum post") and then links to that content.</p>
<p>Several of them have obvious follow-up actions. 3, 4, 10, perhaps 11. A right-hand notifications pane could have a link that points you to the page where you'd perform the action, or perhaps it could show you the interface for actually performing the action (ie, accepting the friendship).</p>
<p>I hope this is a helpful start.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #16092 (Hold): Don't show main site in Site search resultshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/160922022-05-11T22:40:36ZBoone Gorgesboone@gorg.es
<p>From <a class="external" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/15261#note-31">https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/15261#note-31</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>- The CAC home site seems to appear in search results. Can we filter that out?</p>
</blockquote>
<p>I don't know whether this is something we actually want to do. If there's general agreement, please let me know and I'll look into technical feasibility.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #12911 (New): Block access to xmlrpc.php based on User-Agenthttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/129112020-06-09T21:10:11ZBoone Gorgesboone@gorg.es
<p>Branching off of #12898.</p>
<p>On today's dev call, we decided we'd try blacklisting certain User-Agent strings in xmlrpc.php requests.</p>
<p>I downloaded the last 7 complete days of access logs and did some parsing to get a list of unique user agents. The attached CSV file has these agents, with the corresponding counts.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Bug #12436 (Assigned): Nightly system downtimehttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/124362020-02-18T16:21:55ZBoone Gorgesboone@gorg.es
<p>I'm opening this ticket to track recent outages on the Commons. A number of us receive automated notices when the database server is forced to reboot. Beginning roughly one month ago, we started getting these notices several times per week. These notifications indicate when the DB server is forced to reboot, so they indicate at best the end of a problematic period. I receive additional notifications when requests begin to take an inordinately long time, which serves as an indicator of when the incidents begin.</p>
<p>I've been keeping track of specifics over the last few weeks, and I've discerned the following patterns:</p>
<p>- The most common downtime is just after 05:00 UTC (midnight EST, UTC-5), with my incident reports rolling in sometimes around 12:03am and sometimes around 12:07am.<br />- Occasionally, the incidents have begun an hour or two earlier, shortly after 03:00 or 04:00 UTC.<br />- Incidents seem always to begin several minutes after the hour<br />- Reboots usually take place between 3 and 6 minutes after the beginning of the incident<br />- On some occasions, the reboots don't seem to fix the underlying issue, and another cycle of slow requests + db reboots immediately follows.<br />- Sometimes this'll happen a few nights in a row, while sometimes the site will go a few days without any notifications.</p>
<p>All of this strongly suggests that the problem is with an automated cron task, specifically one that takes place around midnight. I've begun to do an analysis of the tasks scheduled for around this time, cross-referencing with the logs. Ideally, we'd be able to narrow down the culprit by identifying the last cron task that begins just before the outages. This is not possible, for a couple reasons: First, the performance issues may only kick in a minute or two after the task begins running (as the system's resources are gradually used up). Second, the Cavalcade logs don't natively keep track of when a task begins running, but only when it finishes (see <a class="external" href="https://github.com/humanmade/Cavalcade-Runner/blob/master/inc/class-runner.php#L377">https://github.com/humanmade/Cavalcade-Runner/blob/master/inc/class-runner.php#L377</a>).</p>
<p>So the best we can do is to make some educated guesses. I'll follow up in a comment with initial thoughts.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #11517 (Assigned): wp-accessibility plugin should not strip 'targ...https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/115172019-06-04T15:08:25ZBoone Gorgesboone@gorg.es
<p>The default setting of wp-accessibility is to strip 'target="_blank"' from links. See <a class="issue tracker-1 status-8 priority-4 priority-default closed" title="Bug: Links not opening in new tab (Duplicate)" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/11512">#11512</a>, <a class="issue tracker-3 status-5 priority-4 priority-default closed" title="Support: open link in a new tab not working (Resolved)" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/11002">#11002</a>.</p>
<p>In <a class="issue tracker-1 status-8 priority-4 priority-default closed" title="Bug: Links not opening in new tab (Duplicate)" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/11512">#11512</a>, Gina suggests that this should not be the default behavior:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Since the plugin appears to insert such a warning in the HTML, would it be possible to configure it so that it does not default to removing the target attribute from links? Removing the target attribute is likely to be confusing for other users of the Teaching template.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>I personally am not a fan of target="_blank". See <a class="external" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/10712#note-2">https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/10712#note-2</a> and follow-up conversation. Moreover, I'm not a huge fan of messing with the default settings of third-party plugins, because it complicates updates and puts us out of step with their documentation, etc. But if others feel strongly that the current behavior is potentially confusing, it's probably possible to change the default behavior, either globally or in the case of the Teaching Template only.</p>
<p>I'm assigning this to Laurie as she's been the point person for building these templates, but general feedback is welcome.</p> NYCDH Community Site - Feature #10631 (New): DATA VIS - Flyer and Cardshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/106312018-10-29T18:19:49ZAlex IrklievskiAIrklievski@gc.cuny.eduNYCDH Community Site - Feature #10630 (New): Digital Humanities - Flyer and Cardshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/106302018-10-29T18:14:33ZAlex IrklievskiAIrklievski@gc.cuny.eduNYCDH Community Site - Feature #10628 (New): Data Science - Flier and Cardshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/106282018-10-29T18:07:24ZAlex IrklievskiAIrklievski@gc.cuny.eduNYCDH Community Site - Feature #10627 (New): Compu Linguistics - Flyer and Cardshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/106272018-10-29T18:01:39ZAlex IrklievskiAIrklievski@gc.cuny.eduNYCDH Community Site - Feature #10626 (Assigned): Cognitive Neuroscience - Flyer and Cardshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/106262018-10-29T17:52:37ZAlex IrklievskiAIrklievski@gc.cuny.eduNYCDH Community Site - Feature #10625 (New): IMS - Flyer and Cardshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/106252018-10-29T17:44:21ZAlex IrklievskiAIrklievski@gc.cuny.eduNYCDH Community Site - Feature #10624 (New): QMSS - Flyer and Cardshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/106242018-10-29T17:36:33ZAlex IrklievskiAIrklievski@gc.cuny.edu