Transition Technology: Ticket Query

#676: Alternative to Skype for TTech Meetings

chris — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 13:33:51 GMT

Jim has pointed out that:

Skype costs us 15-30 minutes of grinding pain every time we do this!

So what are the alternatives and what are our requirements?

#638: Question about notifications option for content creators

ed — Thu, 28 Nov 2013 12:32:57 GMT

Content creators (news, Rob's blog, social reporters) struggle with the notifications. the problem is that they forget to click the option to 'do not send notifications for this update' and then notifications are sent out. It is easy for us to think this is easy for them, but when you are bashing stuff out in a hurry, it's easy to forget this fiddly bit.

CAN WE set drupal to NOT send notifications out as standard for some of the content types?

And change it so that the content creators (news, Rob's blog, social reporters) choose to SEND notifications out instead (of NOT sending them) ?

#711: Emails & Telephone calls

paul — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 13:47:56 GMT

#609: Videos not showing if added via video link

ed — Tue, 15 Oct 2013 08:33:43 GMT

e.g. of project profile: https://www.transitionnetwork.org/projects/new-forest-transition-school-community-energy-saving-project

none showing on video page: https://www.transitionnetwork.org/video

#562: Users being subscribed to widgets newsletter on registratoin

ed — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:11:22 GMT

Ed added new users to system via user-->add user. They are being automatically subscribed to the widget owners newsletter. Please investigate and stop this.

#601: TTech Meeting 3rd October 2013

chris — Thu, 03 Oct 2013 09:03:42 GMT

This is a ticket for notes and times for the online meeting held on 3rd October 2013.

The ticket for the last meeting is ticket:585

#852: TN site down

sam — Fri, 15 May 2015 18:23:38 GMT

Hi all

According to pingdom and testing in my browser TN is currently unavailable.

Is anyone around over the weekend to take a look?

Thanks

Sam

#826: Switching MX records from United to Google

ed — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 17:15:41 GMT

TN are switching the MX records from United to Google on Friday 23/1/15.

Will this affect the website/Web Architects in any way that we need to plan for in advance? Scripts, web forms etc? Anything you can think of?

#579: Special email alert for Rob Hopkins blog posts on TN.org

ed — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 13:49:30 GMT

Can we create a specific email alert for new blog posts from Rob Hopkins' blog (/blogs/rob-hopkins)?
Can Ed do this?
See below:

Proposed new alert: ~

From: [Rob Hopkins at Transition Network <site@…>] Subject: New blog post from Rob Hopkins' Transition Culture To: [subscriber email] Reply to: [<site@…>]

Hello. I've written a new blog Transition Culture blog post

You can read it and leave comments here: [LINK]

[BLOG POST TITLE] [LINE BREAK - FULL CLEAR LINE] [BLOG POST TEASER] [LINE BREAK - FULL CLEAR LINE]

Best regards, Rob

-- [TN EMAIL SUBSCRIPTION AUTO-BLURB] This is an automatic message from Transition Network To manage your subscriptions, browse to http://www.transitionnetwork.org/user/285/notifications You can unsubscribe at http://www.transitionnetwork.org/notifications/unsubscribe/subscription/...

#815: Security updates need to be applied for a couple of contributed modules:

paul — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 13:45:16 GMT

DBTNG Hierarchical Select

#728: Re-patch location module

sam — Tue, 20 May 2014 12:53:16 GMT

Bugger just realised that I didn't finish the pull request into the main branch: https://trac.transitionnetwork.org/trac/ticket/681

So the location module patch is not on the live site.

I have now done the patch correctly I think: https://github.com/transitionnetwork/transitionnetwork.org-d6.profile/pull/2

Shall I additionally add the patch to the live site using Drush as I did before?

Thanks

Sam

#566: Profile photo does not work

ed — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 14:17:35 GMT

Using this user account: https://www.transitionnetwork.org/users/patricia-benson https://www.transitionnetwork.org/people/patricia-benson

I can't get the photo to sit correctly. I have already deleted her first user account as the first photo she put in was sideways - the system presented that the right size, but sideways. Then I couldn't get the system to forget the original photo so had to delete the account and start again. Now I've tried adding bigger, smaller pictures and they all come out far too big - the system is enlarging them up to wider than the space alloted.

Very odd. Too tired and busy to do this now - will revisit in July after holiday.

#600: Numbers missing from Initiatives search page

ed — Mon, 30 Sep 2013 11:46:20 GMT

When users do a search on /initiatives we are missing a number which pertains to the results of the report:

It should say "XXX initiatives match your search criteria"

The XXX bit is missing

please check and resolve

#553: Invalid response from server ERROR message

ed — Tue, 28 May 2013 15:13:43 GMT

Trying to add a user. Get error message: "Received an Invalid response from the server" then served a blank screen. Same with project profile:

https://www.transitionnetwork.org/admin/user/user/create https://www.transitionnetwork.org/node/add/project-profile

This has also happened for a user trying to add a project.

Ed can add an event and blog post, ingredient, panel page.

#560: Install drupal-based project management system onto our servers

ed — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 17:00:28 GMT

Please can you install a suitable project management drupal-based tool onto the suitable server? I am thinking of Open Atrium. It's for staff and partners to use for management stuff (ie not a ticketing system or mediawiki).

Open Atrium?

Can you let me know how long it would take to install to a point where I can manage it and get a pilot project up and running?

#607: Getting three copies of stats reports

ed — Mon, 14 Oct 2013 08:27:59 GMT

I'm getting three copies of the stats reports (weekly) that I've set up here: https://stats.transitionnetwork.org/index.php?module=PDFReports&action=index&idSite=1&period=day&date=today

Please investigate

#705: Create a contents page on TransitionCulture.org Wordpress site

ed — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 15:33:43 GMT

Create a contents page on TC.org to see a listing of all the blog posts. Mike suggests: "use category post list widget to pull in the titles and then use widgetise pages to add widget to a standard page.:

Sam to follow up. MAX time: 1 hour.

#565: Blogs breadcrumbs incorrect on listings views

ed — Tue, 25 Jun 2013 13:21:56 GMT

Blogs breadcrumbs are wrong at main all blogs view and one author's full list view: https://www.transitionnetwork.org/blog https://www.transitionnetwork.org/blogs/ed-mitchell

Jim can you sort this in under 15 minutes (which is what you have left)

#630: Archiving Transition Town Totnes site

ed — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 11:54:35 GMT

Please estimate to archive TTT site as per conversation with Ed:

convert to html
host on Penguin (incl. any likely issues for Penguin doing this)
any ongoing maintenance

Then Ed will discuss with Frances at TTT as per agreement with Chris

#803: Adding a CNAME value to TN.org zone files

ed — Mon, 27 Oct 2014 16:14:09 GMT

I need to add a CNAME value to verify transitionnetwork.org for google apps.

Can I do this on my own using the zone files in gandi or is it better that you do it Chris?

The value will be automatically generated as part of the verification process for setting the apps up, so I'll need to add it promptly

https://support.google.com/a/answer/60216

#684: Adding Paul and Nick to Transition Network on github.org

chris — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 10:42:23 GMT

It looks like Ed and Jim are the only one with permissions to add members to Transition Network on GitHub as they are listed as owners and the rest of us are members.

Paul and Nick can you post you account names to this ticket so you can be added?

Jim could you make me and/or Ben owners as well so we can add people?

#643: Add paginator for /films view

ed — Mon, 09 Dec 2013 11:40:08 GMT

Please add pages links for this view: https://www.transitionnetwork.org/admin/build/views/edit/Films?destination=films#views-tab-page_1

10 per page should do it

#744: Add CSS Injector module to the D6 mix

annesley — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 10:50:03 GMT

CSS Injector module allows admin dynamic adding of CSS in to a live production server without code updates. this is to respond quickly to client needs whilst implementing the requests in the correct place in the themes on the next promotion from dev.

#759: [Security-news] SA-CONTRIB-2014-071 - FileField - Access bypass

paul — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 21:59:46 GMT

View online: https://www.drupal.org/node/2304561

Advisory ID: DRUPAL-SA-CONTRIB-2014-071
Project: FileField? [1] (third-party module)
Version: 6.x
Date: 2014-July-16
Security risk: Critical [2]
Exploitable from: Remote
Vulnerability: Access bypass

The FileField? module enables you to define and use fields that contain files.

The module doesn't sufficiently check permission to view the attached file when attaching a file that was previously uploaded. This could allow attackers to gain access to private files.

This vulnerability is mitigated by the fact that the attacker must have permission to create or edit content with a file field.

/A CVE identifier [3] will be requested, and added upon issuance, in

accordance with Drupal Security Team processes./

FileField? 6.x-3.x versions prior to 6.x-3.13.

Drupal core is not affected. If you do not use the contributed FileField? [4] module, there is nothing you need to do.

If you use the FileField? module for Drupal 6.x, upgrade to Filefield

6.x-3.13 [5], and also update to Drupal core 6.32 [6] (see SA-CORE-2014-003 [7]).

Ivan Ch [8]

Nate Haug [9]
Ivan Ch [10]
David Snopek [11] of the Drupal Security Team.

The Drupal security team can be reached at security at drupal.org or via the contact form at http://drupal.org/contact [12].

Learn more about the Drupal Security team and their policies [13], writing secure code for Drupal [14], and securing your site [15].

Follow the Drupal Security Team on Twitter at https://twitter.com/drupalsecurity [16]

_ Security-news mailing list Security-news@… Unsubscribe at https://lists.drupal.org/mailman/listinfo/security-news

#857: Tiny MCE weirdness

sam — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 15:24:33 GMT

Hi Paul,

Myself & Rob have both run into an intermittent issue where when editing a panel page the WYSYWG editor (Tiny MCE) sometimes appears, sometimes doesn't.

When it doesn't appear you are left with the plain text html editor.

There seems to be no obvious pattern to it. So might be a tricky one to debug.

I see the version of Tiny MCE we are using is quite old, so I was thinking perhaps we should just try upgrading it on a dev server and see if that fixes it?

If this seems reasonable could you stick the latest Tiny MCE on your dev server so we could test it out there? Or if you have any other ideas for getting to the bottom of it..

Thanks

Sam

#890: Site offline.

sam — Sat, 12 Dec 2015 10:54:36 GMT

It's serving a page, so may be Drupal level problem rather than server level?

https://www.transitionnetwork.org/

#671: Replace core Search module with Apache Solr

jim — Sat, 11 Jan 2014 21:11:14 GMT

Issue & background During work on #610, it was discovered that of a 1/4GB database dump for TN.org, ~80% (180Mb) of it was related to the Drupal 6 core Search module.

It's worth noting this was raised when we migrated the site to the Puffin server in March 2013, but it's generally the case that the core Search module does not scale easily beyond a few thousand nodes.

www.transitionnetwork.org has 23,803 nodes at time of writing -- this is probably approaching the sensible limit of the core module's capability.

Note also, any future D7 or D8 version of the site would also hugely benefit from using Solr, so the server config part is time well spent.

Proposed solution

Add the Apache Solr option to BOA, re-run the installer to get it installed and configured automatically.
Add the ApacheSolr module and any related required modules to the TN D6 makefile -- it's not clear if the 6.x-3.x branch or 6.x-1.x branch is the right choice at present.
Build a new platform containing these modules, migrate a clone of STG to it.
Enable the modules, configure them, disable core Search.
Create a feature that wraps up config for Solr and required modules. Add to Git, add reference to feature to makefile
Test, tweak, repeat 3 & 4 & 5 as needed.
Migrate PROD to the new plaform, enabled feature, index site.

This could be parked until D7/8 migration, or not... Ed's call.

#764: Policy decisions re-assessment on BOA and Drupal security updates

annesley — Tue, 22 Jul 2014 14:10:38 GMT

on-line meeting 5 / August @ 14:00 GMT: we are phasing out the current D6 / BOA system. the new system may not use either. The TN.org website is not attractive to high level hackers or DOS attacks.

what are the risks with cancelling all further Unix, BOA and Drupal updates completely that do not allow direct un-mitigated access to the backend via bad PHP code / SQL?

#690: Paul learning the ways of the force.

paul — Thu, 20 Feb 2014 15:00:41 GMT

I'm not a jedi yet

#### Transition Network

Week ending 16 February Monday (0,45) Phone call | Emails (not issues) | Creating a test site on Aeigr Tuesday (0.45) Reading Wiki pages | Setting up local server (Generated notes for WIki) Wednesday (0.45) Reading wiki pages: setting up a platform / cloning a stage site. Friday (3.00) Reading wiki pages , listening to Jim's talks, Emails (not issues). (Generated notes for WIki for setting up a local server)

Finished reading wiki. I'll re-read these as required on my own time going forward.

Week ending 23 February Monday (0,15) Emails (not issues) (Mailing list) Thursday (0,30) Phone call / Emails (not issues)

Total 6, 00 hours

#804: Investigating the site security following SA-CORE-2014-005 (Drupal 7.32)

paul — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 15:20:25 GMT

It was discovered that TN could have have been compromised from the recent security vulnerability (even though we are running Drupal 6) as the site is using the DBTNG module. However the site doesn't appear to have been compromised. I'll post my findings shortly.

#856: Blocked IP?

sam — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 13:12:52 GMT

Hi Chris

I was trying to SSH into the site and got my password wrong a couple of times.

Shortly afterwards the site appeared to be unavailable from this location.

It seems fine in pingdom/proxy servers.

My guess is something like fail2ban or similar has added this IP to a blacklist?

I wouldn't be too bothered except it's Ade's address and I think he probably wants access..

Could you check the logs if there is a blacklist and remove 146.198.11.57

Thanks

Sam

#740: Add 'class button block' to Soundcloud block

sam — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 09:55:05 GMT

Hi Ben

Could you add 'class button block' to the block class settings for this block:

https://www.transitionnetwork.org/admin/build/block/configure/block/98?destination=blogs%2Frob-hopkins

Or shall I give myself 'developer' permissions so I can add these myself?

Thanks

Sam

#735: Add Annesley to github

ed — Tue, 03 Jun 2014 11:05:40 GMT

Once Annesley is on TRAC, we can point him at this ticket, he can give us his github id and we can add it https://github.com/orgs/transitionnetwork/members