Activity
From 2018-10-19 to 2018-11-17
2018-11-17
- 06:05 PM Bug #10722 (Resolved): StatPress performance & migrate to per-site Google Analytics
- We disabled StatPress for new users some time ago, but for existing users, it's a true beast. The database tables are...
- 05:59 PM Feature #10684: We should short-circuit wpdb charset check
- I've run the scripts on the following tables:
- postmeta https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/976af... - 10:41 AM Bug #10721 (Resolved): Site template description not visible on iOS
- Using iPhone, only see template screenshots in selector, no descriptive text or links to demos. Lots of white space b...
- 10:39 AM Feature #10712: Open Site Template demo links in new window?
- Think js warning plus instruction on how to open in new window would do the trick
- 10:33 AM Feature #10712: Open Site Template demo links in new window?
- We could add one of those "you are about to leave the page" JS warnings if someone has entered something into the for...
- 10:31 AM Feature #10712: Open Site Template demo links in new window?
- Yes— I’m aware of accessibility issues and best practices here... but are we asking people to enter information (site...
- 10:13 AM Feature #10712: Open Site Template demo links in new window?
- I agree that we should not open links in new windows. I was a big fan of target="_blank" in the early days of the web...
- 08:20 AM Bug #10720: GES email queue triggers many failed user lookups
- adding Ray as a watcher
- 08:17 AM Bug #10720 (Resolved): GES email queue triggers many failed user lookups
- When BP sends emails, it sets the From and Reply-To field using the BP_Email_Recipient class. We (in RBE and in bp-cu...
2018-11-16
- 10:06 AM Feature #9943: Site templates
- Luke - I've opened #10712 to discuss it.
- 09:57 AM Feature #9943: Site templates
- Boone-- did we discuss opening links to Demo sites via the Site Template picker in a new window? Might make sense in ...
- 10:06 AM Feature #10712: Open Site Template demo links in new window?
- From https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/9943#note-30:
> did we discuss opening links to Demo sites via the Site Te... - 10:03 AM Feature #10712 (Resolved): Open Site Template demo links in new window?
2018-11-15
- 04:47 PM Bug #10564: PHP 7.2 Incompatibility Problems
- I feel like the Commons has just gotten a really good scrubbing with a hard-bristle brush. Thank you so much for clea...
- 12:31 PM Bug #10564: PHP 7.2 Incompatibility Problems
- Quick follow-up related to the update_metadata() issue - I tracked it down to pressforward. More details https://gith...
- 12:11 PM Bug #10564 (Resolved): PHP 7.2 Incompatibility Problems
- I have fixed many more instances. See https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/search?q=10564&type=Commits.
Lo... - 01:52 PM Support #10709 (Resolved): PressForward theme activation
- Sure thing. I've enabled the theme for that site, but have *not* activated it - I'll leave that for you to do yoursel...
- 01:50 PM Support #10709 (Resolved): PressForward theme activation
- Can the pressforward theme be activated for this website:
sejungsageyim.commons.gc.cuny.edu - 12:04 PM Bug #10705 (Resolved): SimplePie throws many errors on PHP 7.2
- Added in https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/ba4a86493c88e73d210d46041e6b126ad0437f7b. Seems to be wo...
- 11:47 AM Bug #10702: Plugin Package tag appearing incorrectly at top of plugins.php
- Awesome - thanks, Ray!
- 12:40 AM Bug #10702 (Resolved): Plugin Package tag appearing incorrectly at top of plugins.php
- Fixed in https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/427d3217e28fe97a0171c175a0e789cbced7eec0
The problem ... - 12:15 AM Bug #10702: Plugin Package tag appearing incorrectly at top of plugins.php
- Hi Boone, can you see if you pulled the latest changes from the @cac-plugin-packages@ submodule on production?
I f... - 11:43 AM Bug #10706 (Resolved): bp-multiple-forum-post triggers query loop on AJAX heartbeat
- https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/bp-multiple-forum-post/commit/74b7c368b682d30733a88eca69fc7b0e4417835a looks...
- 11:39 AM Bug #10706 (Resolved): bp-multiple-forum-post triggers query loop on AJAX heartbeat
- Previously: #6746
Something about the way that BP's AJAX heartbeat activity query works causes bp-multiple-forum-p... - 12:54 AM Feature #10659: Post to multiple groups via email
- > One thing I wonder about -- to what extent should we be worried about the spam issue? should there be some mechanis...
2018-11-14
- 11:10 PM Bug #10705 (Resolved): SimplePie throws many errors on PHP 7.2
- See https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/36669. This will likely never be fixed in WP, so I'm going to put in place...
- 11:04 PM Bug #10704 (Resolved): the-events-calendar filling error log due to bad database queries
- https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/902df21471cfdb34abc5f049d5ad6a8576162d0f This seems to solve it. ...
- 11:02 PM Bug #10704 (Resolved): the-events-calendar filling error log due to bad database queries
- I've opened a support issue describing it: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-error-due-to-incorrect-postme...
- 07:00 PM Bug #10564: PHP 7.2 Incompatibility Problems
- A number of themes have been completely removed as part of this initiative in conjunction with #10034. See https://re...
- 06:58 PM Bug #10564: PHP 7.2 Incompatibility Problems
- I've completed the process for themes:
- arras-theme https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/623b5f78d... - 03:19 PM Bug #10564: PHP 7.2 Incompatibility Problems
- Thank you, Boone!
- 03:00 PM Bug #10564: PHP 7.2 Incompatibility Problems
- A bunch more updates. Some are hotfixes (as in the case of abandoned plugins). Some are cases where I've determined t...
- 03:53 PM Bug #10560: PressForward Feed Reader hung up on TLC feed; won't retrieve other feed items
- Things seem to have cleared up for me as well. Apologies for the delay, and thanks, Paul for checking your feeds. Man...
- 12:55 PM Bug #9068 (Resolved): PHP 7.2 compatibility
- Closing in favor of #10564
- 12:55 PM Bug #10701: Site creation performance
- I've verified the wp_installing() change - it cuts the number of queries in half - and pushed it to production https:...
- 11:32 AM Bug #10701 (Resolved): Site creation performance
- Performance during site creation is abysmally slow. This is largely because of database i/o: large numbers of tables ...
- 11:44 AM Bug #10702 (Resolved): Plugin Package tag appearing incorrectly at top of plugins.php
- At https://dev.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-admin/plugins.php?plugin_status=all&paged=1&s I'm seeing a "Plugin Packages: Mu...
- 10:35 AM Bug #9235 (Resolved): Better RBE error messaging when duplicate content is detected
- 10:34 AM Design/UX #4350 (Resolved): Option to exit 'Create a Group' setup
- 10:34 AM Feature #9942 (Resolved): Plugin Packages
- 10:34 AM Feature #9940 (Resolved): CUNY OneSearch widget
- 10:34 AM Feature #9939 (Resolved): Campus branding widget
- 10:34 AM Feature #9938 (Resolved): License widget
- 10:34 AM Design/UX #9651 (Resolved): Leaving site w/ multiple users
- 10:34 AM Feature #7112 (Resolved): Add Copyright option/question to users on blog creation wizard
2018-11-13
- 05:42 PM Bug #10700: White screen: page not loading/rendering
- Awesome, thanks Boone!
- 05:37 PM Bug #10700 (Resolved): White screen: page not loading/rendering
- Thanks for the report. It looks like there was an error in this morning's release that led to some Anthologize files ...
- 05:25 PM Bug #10700 (Resolved): White screen: page not loading/rendering
- Hi Boone,
One of the faculty members I worked with in the past emailed me this afternoon asking if her site was do... - 05:32 PM Bug #10560 (Resolved): PressForward Feed Reader hung up on TLC feed; won't retrieve other feed items
- Thanks, Paul. Not sure what I can do about the slowness of fetching. Latency is likely due to the slowness of fetchin...
- 03:32 PM Bug #10560: PressForward Feed Reader hung up on TLC feed; won't retrieve other feed items
- It looks like it's working for me.
It's still incredibly slow, though. - 11:15 AM Bug #10560: PressForward Feed Reader hung up on TLC feed; won't retrieve other feed items
- Lisa, could you please check to see whether importing is working properly, and report back when you get a chance?
- 03:05 PM Design/UX #10439: Create Style Guide for Commons
- Thanks for sharing the initial research, Sonja! I've added Ray as a watcher, as he may have opinions regarding implem...
- 09:07 AM Design/UX #10439: Create Style Guide for Commons
- For this project I'm looking to create a living style guide (incl. pattern library) – it will be driven by design, bu...
- 02:30 PM Feature #9943: Site templates
- One more post-release todo for me that I forgot to mention: changing the privacy level of the demo sites, so that the...
- 02:28 PM Feature #9943 (Resolved): Site templates
- Thanks, Luke - this is great.
The "Site Layout" section on cdev's https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/sites/create/ now re... - 02:15 PM Feature #9801: Add courses item to main Commons nav
- Boone Gorges wrote:
> In Anna's case, the issue is likely that the groups are hidden. The Courses directory, in this... - 02:13 PM Feature #9801 (Resolved): Add courses item to main Commons nav
- Marking resolved in advance of tomorrow's release.
- 02:12 PM Feature #9801: Add courses item to main Commons nav
- In Anna's case, the issue is likely that the groups are hidden. The Courses directory, in this iteration, won't show ...
- 11:44 AM Bug #10675 (Resolved): NextGEN Gallery and other tools using "Freemius" cause excessive db i/o
- Tentatively closing.
- 11:16 AM Bug #10332 (Rejected): Dropped from Commons group
- Unfortunately, we only recently started adding the kind of logging info we'd need to be able to debug this further. G...
- 11:10 AM Design/UX #10658: Condense sitewide footer
- Tentatively putting into 1.15 but we may consider moving back, depending on implementation details.
- 11:04 AM Bug #10581 (Rejected): Commons seems quite slow today
- Thanks, Raffi. We're undergoing a process of identifying latency issues. See eg #10684 and related performance tickets.
- 11:02 AM Bug #10564: PHP 7.2 Incompatibility Problems
- I've integrated into the CircleCI setup. https://circleci.com/gh/cuny-academic-commons/cac/tree/1%2E13%2Ex (I had to ...
- 10:51 AM Feature #9942: Plugin Packages
- > I just noticed that the Plug In Package picker has Lorem Ipsum text in the description field immediately below the ...
- 09:36 AM Feature #9942: Plugin Packages
- I just noticed that the Plug In Package picker has Lorem Ipsum text in the description field immediately below the he...
- 10:50 AM Feature #10684: We should short-circuit wpdb charset check
- Thanks for the sanity check, Ray!
Last night, I ran the conversion script for _options tables, and then put https:... - 10:45 AM Bug #10682 (Resolved): DiRT Directory Client runs unneeded database queries
- This seems to take care of the worst offenders.
2018-11-12
- 11:02 AM Feature #10684: We should short-circuit wpdb charset check
- > Ray, could I ask you to do a review of what I've done so far?
Thanks for the well-researched post, Boone.
Th... - 10:09 AM Feature #9943: Site templates
- Scott was able to access the site and make the changes. Demos are now populated with content, visibility set to "Disc...
2018-11-11
- 10:08 PM Feature #9801: Add courses item to main Commons nav
- Hi Boone,
One note. I spoke to a colleague Anna Akasoy, last week who told me that she is teaching a few courses o...
2018-11-10
- 12:56 PM Feature #9943: Site templates
- Quick follow-up - there may have been a cloning issue with roles not being copied properly - please give another quic...
- 12:52 PM Feature #9943: Site templates
- Luke/Scott - Can you please let me know what you mean by "edit"? Exactly what are you doing, and exactly what are you...
- 09:00 AM Feature #9943: Site templates
- Boone: Scott is reporting that though he's an admin on https://academic-portfolio-template-demo.commons.gc.cuny.edu/ ...
2018-11-09
- 10:39 PM Bug #10675: NextGEN Gallery and other tools using "Freemius" cause excessive db i/o
- https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/c9d582f4009ae8840dd48918b9f038725d3bf048 is a more permanent work...
- 06:53 PM Bug #10560: PressForward Feed Reader hung up on TLC feed; won't retrieve other feed items
- Oh! sorry... my misunderstanding!
- 06:49 PM Bug #10560: PressForward Feed Reader hung up on TLC feed; won't retrieve other feed items
- Hi Lisa - I've already ported the change to the Commons (that's what I meant in comment 8 above). Please let us know ...
- 06:38 PM Bug #10560: PressForward Feed Reader hung up on TLC feed; won't retrieve other feed items
- Thanks, Boone and Ray. We have a couple projects waiting on the fix, and I'm glad to hear that there's a short term s...
- 02:31 PM Bug #10560: PressForward Feed Reader hung up on TLC feed; won't retrieve other feed items
- I was seeing lots of instances of this fatal in the error logs, so I've applied the fix from the PressForward repo as...
- 04:13 PM Feature #10684: We should short-circuit wpdb charset check
- wp_bp_activity is another high-impact place to make this change, since it's a single table, and is updated frequently.
- 12:32 PM Feature #10684: We should short-circuit wpdb charset check
- Ray, could I ask you to do a review of what I've done so far? Two things:
1. I wrote a script that converts all op... - 04:07 PM Bug #10686 (Resolved): BuddyPress Docs should limit activity filtering to cases where activity scope includes Docs types
- Implemented in https://github.com/boonebgorges/buddypress-docs/issues/645 and merged into the Comons in https://githu...
- 03:28 PM Feature #10687: Stop mirroring BP last_activity to usermeta
- https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/c88ba8bddfff0fa32a847b2c7858201c9b29805b
- 03:11 PM Feature #10687 (Resolved): Stop mirroring BP last_activity to usermeta
- This was an easy win so I went ahead and implemented.
- 02:38 PM Bug #10690 (Resolved): wp-post-to-pdf should use writeable cache location
- Fixed in https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/34e46ca7e85a6ba29c15330b46d22b709a63a1de
- 02:38 PM Bug #10690 (Resolved): wp-post-to-pdf should use writeable cache location
- The wp-post-to-pdf plugin (which has been abandoned for some time) uses tcpdf, which needs a cache location for thing...
- 02:26 PM Bug #10564: PHP 7.2 Incompatibility Problems
- In https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/77ddf400f6dc9e81a8b85faef48970f59de9e7fc I added a composer se...
- 02:22 PM Bug #10689 (Resolved): Featured Image Error
- Hi Chloe - Thanks for the report. This is due to an incompatibility between the GalleryPress plugin and some recent s...
- 12:00 PM Bug #10689 (Resolved): Featured Image Error
- I get a HTTP error message when try to set a featured image for posts on the GC Art History Commons page. Screenshot ...
- 10:28 AM Feature #9943: Site templates
- Thanks, Luke.
I've cloned all content and settings in the following cases:
teaching-template -> teaching-template... - 09:19 AM Feature #9943: Site templates
- Ok, Teaching Template is done. Please clone https://teaching-template.commons.gc.cuny.edu/ to https://teaching-templ...
2018-11-08
- 10:45 PM Feature #10684: We should short-circuit wpdb charset check
- I've done some thinking and research about how this might be best effected, and I have a couple notes to jot down.
... - 05:42 PM Feature #10684 (Resolved): We should short-circuit wpdb charset check
- Looking over the processlist log, I see that there is some correspondence between (a) moments when there are many 'sl...
- 09:06 PM Feature #10687 (Resolved): Stop mirroring BP last_activity to usermeta
- Our usermeta table is bloated, and writing to it takes a (relatively) long time. Let's implement https://buddypress.t...
- 05:55 PM Bug #10686 (Resolved): BuddyPress Docs should limit activity filtering to cases where activity scope includes Docs types
- See #10685. The same is true of Docs. See bp_docs_access_protection_for_activity_feed().
- 05:50 PM Bug #10685 (Resolved): Social Paper activity filter should only apply when activity scope includes SP types
- Social Paper filters activity queries to ensure that items related to private SPs are not included in activity stream...
- 05:43 PM Bug #10679 (Rejected): Site response time
- Thanks, Scott. This is part of ongoing performance issues, which we're monitoring and attempting to debug. Nothing to...
- 02:37 PM Bug #10679: Site response time
- Response time is now much better. Nov 8 - 2:30 PM
- 01:54 PM Bug #10679 (Rejected): Site response time
- I have noticed both yesterday and today that the site has long response times. For example, Nov. 8th from 1:30 to 2:0...
- 05:13 PM Bug #10564: PHP 7.2 Incompatibility Problems
- wordpress-thread-comment: https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/40af153b040305b0ce528bbb47dc9d6980ab0a3b
- 05:11 PM Bug #10564: PHP 7.2 Incompatibility Problems
- Here's one from bdpress: https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/ffd40d2d9c0100f23e92456b9ba81be7ed2daa90
- 04:07 PM Bug #10682: DiRT Directory Client runs unneeded database queries
- DDC hides the user tab when the displayed user has no tools. https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/0fe5...
- 04:03 PM Bug #10682 (Resolved): DiRT Directory Client runs unneeded database queries
- I'll see if I can narrow some down and eliminate.
- 04:07 PM Feature #9943: Site templates
- Boone-- https://academic-portfolio-template.commons.gc.cuny.edu is ready for cloning to https://academic-portfolio-te...
- 03:54 PM Feature #10681 (Resolved): Avoid domain mapping database query for *.commons.gc.cuny.edu domains
- Fixed in https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/db8399518d6a00b897a594f721bbc3b1e1ba155a
- 03:52 PM Feature #10681 (Resolved): Avoid domain mapping database query for *.commons.gc.cuny.edu domains
- The very first database query run on every pageload is to the domain mapping table, which determines whether the curr...
- 03:36 PM Bug #10680 (Resolved): wp_bp_activity table has extra 'component' index
- Looking into some other issues, I see that the wp_bp_activity table has a component_name index (which is provided by ...
- 01:19 PM Support #10657: child theme problems
- Thanks, Marilyn. I've created her account and added her as a watcher here.
- 12:12 PM Support #10657: child theme problems
- She would like to be added to Redmine. I let Matt know on the ZD ticket, and here's her contact info in case you'd li...
- 11:30 AM Bug #10678: Newsletter Plugin Not Sending Out Newsletters
- Hi Mark - Thanks very much for the additional info, which helps me narrow down what's happening.
We do not use WP'... - 07:23 AM Bug #10678: Newsletter Plugin Not Sending Out Newsletters
- When I say "again" I am simply referring to the fact that my last bug report was in reference to the same plugin.
... - 10:21 AM Support #10663: Access "Trash"
- Hi Kristen - Thanks fo the follow-up. I still don't see anything in the database indicating a page called 'open-acces...
2018-11-07
- 10:03 PM Bug #10678 (Reporter Feedback): Newsletter Plugin Not Sending Out Newsletters
- Hi Mark - I am unfamiliar with the way that this Newsletter plugin works. Could you please provide me with more speci...
- 09:56 PM Bug #10678 (Reporter Feedback): Newsletter Plugin Not Sending Out Newsletters
- Hi,
The Newletter plugin for the CPCP website (https://cpcp.commons.gc.cuny.edu) is again having issues. Newslette... - 05:29 PM Bug #10675: NextGEN Gallery and other tools using "Freemius" cause excessive db i/o
- Interesting. Thanks, Boone, for this continuing work
- 05:05 PM Bug #10675: NextGEN Gallery and other tools using "Freemius" cause excessive db i/o
- The Freemius tool seems kind of icky generally. In https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/3a8add2802f596...
- 03:46 PM Bug #10675: NextGEN Gallery and other tools using "Freemius" cause excessive db i/o
- Hotfixes:
https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/1a89462e0d091490653f22569c7d8b17bdaa8371
https://gith... - 03:40 PM Bug #10675 (Resolved): NextGEN Gallery and other tools using "Freemius" cause excessive db i/o
- Spotted while examining recent performance issues: Plugins that use the Freemius library https://github.com/Freemius/...
- 09:02 AM Support #10663: Access "Trash"
- Hi Boone,
I'm just following up because this is the exact URL i'm looking for: https://gcdidev.commons.gc.cuny.edu...
2018-11-06
- 12:13 PM Feature #9943: Site templates
- ...
- 12:03 PM Feature #9943: Site templates
- Luke, thanks very much for the update.
Your plan sounds good to me. To be clear, I assume you mean that each of 't... - 10:51 AM Feature #9943: Site templates
- Just an update on where we are with this process; Boone, please let us know if you see any red flags.
Paul and I... - 11:08 AM Bug #10665 (Resolved): Runaway database queries triggered by some BPGES queue events
- Updated in https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/7c756ab6909104df5fbea180862163d14affd6eb
- 11:05 AM Bug #10665 (Resolved): Runaway database queries triggered by some BPGES queue events
- See https://github.com/boonebgorges/buddypress-group-email-subscription/issues/158
I'm going to port the most rece... - 11:05 AM Design/UX #10658: Condense sitewide footer
- Thanks, Sonja!
- 10:40 AM Design/UX #10658: Condense sitewide footer
- I'll take a stab at this to make sure the condensed footer looks good on smaller devices too.
- 08:27 AM Feature #10659: Post to multiple groups via email
- Thank you, Ray. I could use this functionality on an almost daily basis, because I am often, for instance, sending up...
- 02:39 AM Feature #10659: Post to multiple groups via email
- It's possible, but it will require some changes to RBE to allow multiple "To" addresses.
Currently, only one "To" ...
2018-11-05
- 05:02 PM Support #10663 (Rejected): Access "Trash"
- Sounds good. Thanks!
- 04:47 PM Support #10663: Access "Trash"
- Hi Boone,
I myself am not too sure what happened.. - but I assumed I had put it in the trash and that's why I coul... - 04:40 PM Support #10663 (Reporter Feedback): Access "Trash"
- Hi Kristen - I think you have *access* to "Trash", it's just not appearing in this case because you have no pages wit...
- 04:14 PM Support #10663 (Rejected): Access "Trash"
- Hi Boone,
I'm trying to recover a page from the trash on the site: gcdidev.commons.gc.cuny.edu
I believe the pa... - 02:27 PM Support #10657 (Reporter Feedback): child theme problems
- Thanks, Marilyn. Some responses below. Please let Alison know that she's welcome to participate directly here on Redm...
2018-11-04
- 12:44 PM Feature #10659 (Duplicate): Post to multiple groups via email
- Increasingly, I have announcements that I need to post to multiple groups. Though we have an interface that allows us...
- 12:00 PM Design/UX #10658 (Resolved): Condense sitewide footer
- Perhaps this should wait for our redesign, but in the interest of improving the site in the meantime, I wonder if the...
2018-11-03
- 06:27 PM Support #10657 (Abandoned): child theme problems
- Alison Slon, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Technology at BMCC, has written to Zendesk with the follow...
2018-11-02
- 01:58 PM Feature #9801: Add courses item to main Commons nav
- A brief update to note that Matt's assistants completed the review of courses earlier this week. This morning, I wrot...
- 10:27 AM Support #10606 (Resolved): problems with testing environment
- Thanks, Marilyn!
2018-11-01
- 08:59 PM Support #10606: problems with testing environment
- Feel free to close this now, thanks again!
- 03:36 PM Bug #10654 (Resolved): Trashing bbPress item can cause one zillion db queries
- A request to
[REQUEST_URI] => /groups/[groupname]/forum/topic/post-transcripts-indexes-here/?action=bbp_toggle_... - 01:33 PM Publicity #10647 (Resolved): Add JTD to list of Publications on the Commmons
- Hi - This has been added.
2018-10-31
- 09:34 PM Publicity #10647 (Resolved): Add JTD to list of Publications on the Commmons
- Hi Scott --
can you please add this new journal to the list of publications on the CAC? Thank you!
https://comm... - 05:06 PM Feature #9939: Campus branding widget
- Thank you for testing, Scott! I don't want to try making per-theme adjustments this late in the game, but let's defin...
- 02:17 PM Feature #9939: Campus branding widget
- Just tested and looks great. Using 2012 theme, the brand might look better if it was left aligned, but that can be d...
- 05:06 PM Feature #9943: Site templates
- Thanks, Scott! The behavior is expected - the academic portfolio template currently on cdev only has Jetpack activate...
- 02:20 PM Feature #9943: Site templates
- Jetpack was the only plugin that was automatically activated when I tested the Academic portfolio. Not sure if an iss...
- 04:51 PM Bug #10645 (Resolved): Facebook link in groups
- Thanks for bringing this to our attention, Gina. Fixed in https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/f3d2277...
- 11:32 AM Bug #10645 (Resolved): Facebook link in groups
- I just attempted to add the CETLS Facebook page to the BMCC CETLS group. I added our Facebook id and the Commons gene...
- 10:16 AM Bug #10605: cac-onboarding email sending routine can cause near-infinite db requests
- Deployed! Let's see what happens.
2018-10-30
- 10:49 PM Bug #10605: cac-onboarding email sending routine can cause near-infinite db requests
- > I'm tempted to deploy these changes as a hotfix. I'd do it at a time when I'll be around to catch any fatals that m...
- 01:02 PM Bug #10605: cac-onboarding email sending routine can cause near-infinite db requests
- Thanks for having a look, Ray!
The fact that this loop only appears to occur during the deprecated mail filters is... - 02:21 AM Bug #10605: cac-onboarding email sending routine can cause near-infinite db requests
- > The simplest fix I can see for the Commons is to unhook `bp_core_deprecated_email_filters()`. Ray, do you see a pro...
- 05:07 PM Bug #10574 (Resolved): Typing an apostrophe breaks free-entry portfolio fields
- Found it! I was using a bad technique for converting an HTML string to a jQuery object. https://github.com/cuny-acade...
- 04:55 PM Bug #10595 (Resolved): Confirmation page after site creation has double footer
- Thanks, Marilyn.
I found the issue, which is related to site templates. During the site cloning process, I wasn't ... - 01:06 PM Bug #10633 (Duplicate): Tribe__Meta__Chunker->is_supported_post_type runaway queries
- Thanks, Ray! I lean in the direction of a broader fix than just addressing the email tokens. I think we ought to swit...
- 02:43 AM Bug #10633: Tribe__Meta__Chunker->is_supported_post_type runaway queries
- > The issue here feels very close to #10605, but that other bug presumably wouldn't be addressed by the `switch_to_bl...
2018-10-29
- 03:23 PM Bug #10629 (Resolved): 'tags' blog tag cloud causing runaway queries
- I've disabled (but not removed) the plugin in https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/791d70c1cd65631a2d3...
- 02:07 PM Bug #10629 (Resolved): 'tags' blog tag cloud causing runaway queries
- From recent performance logging, I see that the tag cloud on individual posts at http://tags.commons.gc.cuny.edu/ can...
- 03:12 PM Bug #10633: Tribe__Meta__Chunker->is_supported_post_type runaway queries
- I think that this specific issue could be at least mitigated by BuddyPress. I've opened https://buddypress.trac.wordp...
- 02:34 PM Bug #10633 (Duplicate): Tribe__Meta__Chunker->is_supported_post_type runaway queries
- Two times in the last three days I've gotten emails from my long-running-request tool that indicate some sort of prob...
2018-10-28
- 03:26 PM Bug #10595: Confirmation page after site creation has double footer
- Happening for me as well.
- 03:24 PM Support #10606: problems with testing environment
- That was it. I'll update the instructions.
- 07:12 AM Support #10606 (Reporter Feedback): problems with testing environment
- Hi Marilyn - Make sure your /etc/hosts file is pointed at 146.96.128.252, not 146.96.128.253 (note the final 2 in pla...
- 08:43 AM Feature #9943: Site templates
- Boone,
Your theory about the Hosts file is correct. I added one of the new sites to the Hosts file and Chrome starte... - 08:07 AM Feature #9943: Site templates
- Screenshot of Chrome Window After clicking the link to a site called Green Monster. Page re-renders identically when ...
- 08:06 AM Feature #9943: Site templates
- I've confirmed the activity behavior and fixed it in https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac-site-templates/comm...
2018-10-27
- 04:51 PM Bug #10356: RBE error
- Belated thanks for this, Ray. the email looks good
- 03:32 PM Support #10606 (Resolved): problems with testing environment
- When I change the hosts file and try to go to https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/, I get a "There is a problem with this web...
- 11:07 AM Feature #9943: Site templates
- I'll take a look at these issues later, Steve, though at a glance, it sounds like the activity thing is a legit bug a...
- 10:53 AM Feature #9943: Site templates
- As of 10:30 on Saturday morning, I cannot get to my recently created sites (Purple Moose and Red Rooster). The sites ...
- 10:38 AM Feature #9943: Site templates
- When I create a new site from a template, several posts that Paul wrote as part of creating the template, are showing...
2018-10-26
- 03:02 PM Bug #10605 (Resolved): cac-onboarding email sending routine can cause near-infinite db requests
- Here's an odd query loop coming out of one of my debugging tools:...
- 02:51 PM Bug #10604 (Resolved): bbPress forum edit screen causes excessive queries
- Fixed in https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/111ca0c0ec6431ee0ca6b114b3be5769b0e3222f and deployed as...
- 02:47 PM Bug #10604 (Resolved): bbPress forum edit screen causes excessive queries
- bbPress puts a "Forum" dropdown on the topic edit panel, which is customized for BP. See https://bbpress.trac.wordpre...
- 02:07 PM Support #9886: cuny.is SSL
- cuny.is is now SSL-only, so we're all set here. https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/db380aa0d5babfc19...
2018-10-25
- 05:29 PM Feature #9943: Site templates
- Ray, I've added some integration with cac-plugin-packages: https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac-site-template...
- 10:24 AM Feature #9943 (In Progress): Site templates
- Implementation note (to self and Ray) that at least one template site must have a plugin package activated (Teaching ...
- 02:59 PM Feature #10229: Remove 1 item from main nav bar when we add courses
- Boone Gorges wrote:
> By "all sites" I mean that the toolbar is visible across all subsites in the network. So, for ... - 01:46 PM Feature #10229: Remove 1 item from main nav bar when we add courses
- Click events anywhere on the toolbar are registered as the same sorts of events in GA, but we know which specific ite...
- 01:44 PM Feature #10229: Remove 1 item from main nav bar when we add courses
- the admin bar also has two parts -- the part aligned to the left, which replicates the main site nav bar, and the par...
- 01:38 PM Feature #10229: Remove 1 item from main nav bar when we add courses
- By "all sites" I mean that the toolbar is visible across all subsites in the network. So, for example, at https://gce...
- 01:35 PM Feature #10229: Remove 1 item from main nav bar when we add courses
- Thanks Boone for these insights! Very interesting indeed!
For a future nav design considerations it would be intere... - 02:40 PM Design/UX #10598: CUNY User Surveys
- Matt Gold wrote:
> Hi Sonja -- here is a link to discussion forum threads in our team related to surveys. https://co... - 02:31 PM Design/UX #10598: CUNY User Surveys
- Hi Sonja -- here is a link to discussion forum threads in our team related to surveys. https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/gr...
- 02:30 PM Design/UX #10598: CUNY User Surveys
- Stephen shared:
*2016 Survey presentation* – Here is a presentation that was published with an analysis of the resu... - 02:29 PM Design/UX #10598: CUNY User Surveys
- Stephen shared:
*2016 Commons Survey* – This analysis of the survey is more granular than the previous document I s... - 02:27 PM Design/UX #10598 (Resolved): CUNY User Surveys
- I'm simply creating this ticket to start a list of relevant CUNY user surveys that have been conducted in the past an...
- 02:35 PM Feature #10576 (Resolved): plugin needed for ESRI Story Map
- Thanks for sharing these details, Olivia.
The plugin you've linked seems way more complex than what you need. That... - 02:03 PM Bug #10588 (Resolved): Missing social icons in Lucid Theme
- Thanks for the report, Jessica.
It looks like this is a bug in the Lucid theme that only became evident with a Com... - 01:44 PM Bug #10597 (Resolved): cuny.is admin unavailable
- It works now. thanks. I think I may have seen a Db restart notice from IT, so maybe it had something to do with that....
- 01:43 PM Bug #10597 (Reporter Feedback): cuny.is admin unavailable
- I'm not seeing the same thing. I can access cuny.is/admin without a problem. I see two possibilities:
1. It was a ... - 11:19 AM Bug #10597 (Resolved): cuny.is admin unavailable
- it looks to me like the administrative interface for cuny.is is unavailable, likely due to recent work on the server ...
- 01:17 PM Feature #9942: Plugin Packages
- Raymond Hoh wrote:
> Thanks for the feedback, Sonja. I've added the "i" info icon to the dashboard widget.
Thank... - 10:34 AM Feature #9942: Plugin Packages
- > I wonder if the notice "Some plugins are inactive..." on the dashboard widget will grab admin's attention the way i...
- 10:18 AM Bug #10595 (Resolved): Confirmation page after site creation has double footer
- Not sure if this is happening on production, but noted on cdev. See screenshot.
If this is an easy fix, I'll put i...
2018-10-24
- 06:21 PM Feature #10421: Creative Commons license needs to be updated?
- Thanks, Boone. The thing that's tricky about this is that we should probably let all members know if there is a chang...
- 12:33 PM Feature #10421: Creative Commons license needs to be updated?
- Bumping this ticket - Matt, could you review Ray's comment above and let us know what you think needs to be changed? ...
- 06:10 PM Feature #10229: Remove 1 item from main nav bar when we add courses
- very interesting. thank you, Boone.
- 12:29 PM Feature #10229 (Resolved): Remove 1 item from main nav bar when we add courses
- Circling back with some info that we've gathered from our new custom Analytics events. I wish we'd done this a while ...
- 04:44 PM Bug #10588 (Resolved): Missing social icons in Lucid Theme
- We are using Lucid for https://jtds.commons.gc.cuny.edu/ (site is still in development, but I can grant admin access ...
- 01:08 PM Bug #10581 (Rejected): Commons seems quite slow today
- Slower than usual.
- 12:34 PM Feature #502 (Duplicate): Create Site Templates
- This ticket has merged with #9943, so let's continue discussion there.
- 12:32 PM Feature #10226: Add "My Courses" to drop down list
- We'll have to address some of the conceptual questions about course "membership" before moving forward with this.
- 12:29 PM Design/UX #10580 (New): Primary nav item review
- This is primarily about the main nav under the Commons logo throughout the main site, but probably also affects the "...
2018-10-23
- 11:58 PM Feature #10576 (Resolved): plugin needed for ESRI Story Map
- Hi Boone!
I would like to embed an ESRI Story map into an article on the GCDI Tagging the Tower Site (https://dig... - 02:01 PM Design/UX #4350: Option to exit 'Create a Group' setup
- thanks, Sonja!
- 12:46 PM Design/UX #4350: Option to exit 'Create a Group' setup
- Matt Gold wrote:
> Thank you, Ray! this looks good to me. I've added Sonja as a watcher and temporarily assigned thi... - 10:36 AM Design/UX #4350: Option to exit 'Create a Group' setup
- Thank you, Ray! this looks good to me. I've added Sonja as a watcher and temporarily assigned this issue to her for h...
- 04:22 AM Design/UX #4350 (In Progress): Option to exit 'Create a Group' setup
- Resurrecting this one since it's an easy win.
I've implemented the "Cancel" button during the group creation proce... - 11:48 AM Bug #10564: PHP 7.2 Incompatibility Problems
- Let's keep this open as they trickle in over the next week or two.
- 11:47 AM Bug #10356 (Resolved): RBE error
- About to ship this. Thanks, Ray.
- 11:47 AM Bug #10553 (Resolved): File category view persists after clicking away
- buddypress-group-documents uses a cookie to save this setting (or, at least, our fork does). I've added some logic th...
- 11:36 AM Support #10529 (Resolved): Plugin Request - https://wordpress.org/plugins/sign-up-sheets/
- Added in https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/be474badcf66bb81e5e55ae3a4f5f2f0d76eb47b. It will be ava...
- 11:35 AM Feature #10354: Opt out of Having a Profile Page
- Added Sonja as a watcher. We need to settle some conceptual questions about what it means to be a Commons member etc ...
- 10:52 AM Bug #10363 (Resolved): Domain mapping for CETLS site
- 10:52 AM Support #10407 (Resolved): toolbar problem
- Closing due to lack of feedback. Please feel free to reopen if the problem recurs.
- 10:51 AM Bug #10537 (Resolved): jpegs not showing
- Thanks!
- 10:51 AM Bug #10560: PressForward Feed Reader hung up on TLC feed; won't retrieve other feed items
- Thanks, Ray. It looks very likely that the fatal error is related. I'll take a bit of time to dig into PF and maybe o...
- 09:05 AM Bug #10560: PressForward Feed Reader hung up on TLC feed; won't retrieve other feed items
- Thanks to you both, Ray and Boone, for following up! Let me know if I can help.
- 10:50 AM Bug #10561 (Resolved): CETLS site redirecting to GC
- Sorry for not following up on Friday. A few hours after I sent the inquiry to IT, Lihua replied that they had, in fac...
- 10:49 AM Bug #10562 (Rejected): Commons is down
- Closing in favor of #10564.
- 10:48 AM Bug #10563 (Resolved): cllicking on links from site menu leads to 500 error
- Lihua responded that he hadn't changed anything, which means I must have done it at some point. Let's close this tick...
- 10:47 AM Bug #10565: Escape Characters show in Academic Interests on People Page
- This has uncovered a more serious problem in #10574. I'm pushing it out of this release so that we can get a broader ...
- 10:46 AM Bug #10574 (Resolved): Typing an apostrophe breaks free-entry portfolio fields
- Haven't tested across browsers, but at least in Firefox:
1. Edit portfolio
2. Create 'Academic Interests' field
...
2018-10-22
- 06:05 PM Feature #5016: Allow comments to be posted on events
- I meant to bump this last week, so bumping now.
If we want this in 1.15, let's discuss how important this feature ... - 06:02 PM Bug #9235 (Staged for Production Release): Better RBE error messaging when duplicate content is detected
- > It would be really helpful though if these error message emails included the subject of the email and the forum the...
- 11:58 AM Bug #10560: PressForward Feed Reader hung up on TLC feed; won't retrieve other feed items
- I came across a fatal error while debugging some PHP 7.2 stuff on Friday, but forgot to mention it.
I opened an is... - 11:13 AM Bug #10560: PressForward Feed Reader hung up on TLC feed; won't retrieve other feed items
- For my own notes: wp-content/blogs.dir/3479/files/pressforward.log
- 11:12 AM Bug #10560 (In Progress): PressForward Feed Reader hung up on TLC feed; won't retrieve other feed items
- Thanks for the report and the screenshots, Lisa. It's hard to pin down what might be happening asynchronously, so I'v...
- 10:26 AM Bug #10560: PressForward Feed Reader hung up on TLC feed; won't retrieve other feed items
- Was finally able to interrupt the feed retrieval process and start over, but it ended up hanging on another feed.
... - 11:02 AM Support #10571 (Reporter Feedback): newsletter queue problem
- The DISABLE_WP_CRON message is annoying but is likely not new, and it's not clear to me that it is related to the cur...
- 10:45 AM Support #10571 (Abandoned): newsletter queue problem
- This is related to https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/10290 - Rukshana Jalil writes "I am trying to figure out why m...
- 10:56 AM Bug #10570: CUNY DHI landing page broken after menu bar
- Thanks, Boone!
- 10:52 AM Bug #10570 (Resolved): CUNY DHI landing page broken after menu bar
- Thanks for the report, Lisa. It does appear to be due to a PHP 7.2 incompatibility. I've fixed it in https://github.c...
- 10:29 AM Bug #10570 (Resolved): CUNY DHI landing page broken after menu bar
- The page was working fine until a new post was published. When the new post was published this morning, the rest of t...
- 10:41 AM Bug #10564: PHP 7.2 Incompatibility Problems
- backtype-connect caused some fatals due to incorrect use of wpdb::prepare(). Fixed in https://github.com/cuny-academi...
2018-10-19
- 04:26 PM Feature #9942: Plugin Packages
- Ray, in today's meetings, the team finalized the spec for which plugins will be included. We'd like the following cha...
- 03:59 PM Bug #10564: PHP 7.2 Incompatibility Problems
- Thanks, Ray.
https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/66fcd9aed135fc097cde087f0c4cc1f9ee1310c6 contains... - 03:32 PM Bug #10564: PHP 7.2 Incompatibility Problems
- I fixed a few other fatal errors unrelated to the PHP 7.2 upgrade that showed up in the logs:
https://github.com/cun... - 01:59 PM Bug #10564 (In Progress): PHP 7.2 Incompatibility Problems
- Renamed the issue so we can track other problems with plugins and themes since the PHP 7.2 deployment.
Plugins:
-... - 11:51 AM Bug #10564 (Resolved): PHP 7.2 Incompatibility Problems
- Deployed as a hotfix on production here - https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/b827169a6e77861bc966e0f...
- 11:48 AM Bug #10564: PHP 7.2 Incompatibility Problems
- Thanks for catching this - I have already found some other bugs in a theme and put hotfixes in place. I will open a s...
- 11:46 AM Bug #10564 (Resolved): PHP 7.2 Incompatibility Problems
- Saw this in the error logs.
Sociable is one of the plugins we hide from sites that do not have it already activate... - 02:27 PM Support #10556 (Resolved): Access to PressForward Theme
- Done. (It's enabled, but not activated.)
- 01:19 PM Support #10556: Access to PressForward Theme
- Let's put it on the in.commons.gc.cuny.edu website.
- 01:29 PM Bug #10565: Escape Characters show in Academic Interests on People Page
- Thanks for the report - I'll have a look.
- 01:27 PM Bug #10565 (Resolved): Escape Characters show in Academic Interests on People Page
- On the members page https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/ there is escape character shown. Did not show on the person’...
- 11:38 AM Bug #10563: cllicking on links from site menu leads to 500 error
- Sounds good. I'll follow up with Lihua shortly.
- 11:37 AM Bug #10563: cllicking on links from site menu leads to 500 error
- I didn't add the @session_save_path()@ entry.
- 11:33 AM Bug #10563: cllicking on links from site menu leads to 500 error
- I don't recall adding session_save_path() to cac-env-config.php. Did you? I wonder if Lihua did it as part of the mig...
- 11:26 AM Bug #10563: cllicking on links from site menu leads to 500 error
- I looked at the server logs and saw this:...
- 11:25 AM Bug #10563: cllicking on links from site menu leads to 500 error
- Some of these are coming back after a cache flush.
- 11:22 AM Bug #10563: cllicking on links from site menu leads to 500 error
- If you find instances, please share URLs.
https://medieval.commons.gc.cuny.edu/
https://americanstudiescp.commons... - 11:18 AM Bug #10563 (Resolved): cllicking on links from site menu leads to 500 error
- https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/sites/
viewing as non-logged in user - 11:27 AM Bug #10561 (Reporter Feedback): CETLS site redirecting to GC
- Hi Gina - This should be working now. Please have a look.
- 10:47 AM Bug #10561: CETLS site redirecting to GC
- Thanks, Gina. The GC IT is undertaking a major upgrade of the server infrastructure today and I suspect this issue is...
- 10:24 AM Bug #10561 (Resolved): CETLS site redirecting to GC
- The CETLS site (http://cetls.bmcc.cuny.edu, https://bmcccetls.commons.gc.cuny.edu/) is currently redirecting to the ...
- 10:58 AM Bug #10562: Commons is down
- Thanks!
- 10:56 AM Bug #10562: Commons is down
- Hi Marilyn - The Commons is undergoing a server migration. See https://dev.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2018/10/12/system-main...
- 10:55 AM Bug #10562 (Rejected): Commons is down
- Tom Harbison submitted a Zendesk ticket ":15-10:20 various pages on the Commons were loading very slowly for me. From...
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