I tried to register yesterday, twice with 2 email addresses. The website said it sent me mail, I never got a mail. Someone else, please confirm this is broken. A bug I'd like to file is that I'd like an option to search *word. Currently you can only search word*. The example where I would find this useful is searching for urls and email addresses. For example, I want to find emals from *xapian.org, can't do it now. I want to find urls including *xapian.org*, can't do it. Another small infrastructure bug is that https://lists.xapian.org/mailman/listinfo/xapian-devel says you can simply send an email to the list without subscribing, but it seems no one is paying attention to the moderation queue, so those messages just in moderation forever. This is a common problem among projects, but you can easily change the mailman page to say "You must subscribe to the list to send messages."
Hi Ian, Can you fix you "From:" header - currently it has a double name and an extra set of <>, which messes up replying and probably other things that need to parse mail headers: | From: Ian Kelling <Ian Kelling <ian at iankelling.org>> On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 01:13:14PM -0700, Ian Kelling wrote:> I tried to register yesterday, twice with 2 email addresses. The website > said it sent me mail, I never got a mail. Someone else, please confirm > this is broken.There's a bug in the trac account manager plugin which results in those emails not getting sent correctly sometimes. James tracked it down but I'm afraid I've not had a chance to install a workaround yet. I'll send you the token directly shortly.> A bug I'd like to file is that I'd like an option to search > *word. Currently you can only search word*. The example where I would > find this useful is searching for urls and email addresses. For example, > I want to find emals from *xapian.org, can't do it now. I want to find > urls including *xapian.org*, can't do it.That's as documented, so not a bug as such: | FLAG_WILDCARD | | Support wildcards. | | At present only right truncation (e.g. Xap*) is supported. https://xapian.org/docs/apidoc/html/classXapian_1_1QueryParser.html#ae96a58a8de9d219ca3214a5a66e0407e I have a work in progress branch to extend wildcard support, which supports your case amongst others: https://github.com/ojwb/xapian/tree/extended-wildcards But for URLs and email addresses, I'd recommend indexing them split at the punctuation, which is how TermGenerator/QueryParser handle them.> Another small infrastructure bug is that > https://lists.xapian.org/mailman/listinfo/xapian-devel says you can > simply send an email to the list without subscribing, but it seems no > one is paying attention to the moderation queue, so those messages just > in moderation forever. This is a common problem among projects, but you > can easily change the mailman page to say "You must subscribe to the > list to send messages."The moderators are sent a list each day of held messages, and yours wasn't in yesterday's so it's been on hold less than a day as far as I can tell. The queue is processed most days, so the text on the website seems accurate to me: https://xapian.org/lists | Posts from non-subscribers currently require approval (we'd rather not | have to impose this restriction, but we also want to avoid relaying spam | to our subscribers). So if you aren't subscribed, there's likely to be a | delay before your message is approved and relayed to the list. Please be | patient and don't resend a message just because it doesn't appear right | away. I've added that paragraph to the mailman templates in case people somehow end up there without going via the website. Cheers, Olly
Olly Betts <olly at survex.com> writes:> Hi Ian, > > Can you fix you "From:" header - currently it has a double name and an > extra set of <>, which messes up replying and probably other things that > need to parse mail headers: > > | From: Ian Kelling <Ian Kelling <ian at iankelling.org>>Thank you.> > On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 01:13:14PM -0700, Ian Kelling wrote: >> I tried to register yesterday, twice with 2 email addresses. The website >> said it sent me mail, I never got a mail. Someone else, please confirm >> this is broken. > > There's a bug in the trac account manager plugin which results in those > emails not getting sent correctly sometimes. James tracked it down > but I'm afraid I've not had a chance to install a workaround yet. > > I'll send you the token directly shortly. >Thank you.> >> A bug I'd like to file is that I'd like an option to search >> *word. Currently you can only search word*. The example where I would >> find this useful is searching for urls and email addresses. For example, >> I want to find emals from *xapian.org, can't do it now. I want to find >> urls including *xapian.org*, can't do it. > > That's as documented, so not a bug as such:Yes, I should have said feature request.> > | FLAG_WILDCARD > | > | Support wildcards. > | > | At present only right truncation (e.g. Xap*) is supported. > > https://xapian.org/docs/apidoc/html/classXapian_1_1QueryParser.html#ae96a58a8de9d219ca3214a5a66e0407e > > I have a work in progress branch to extend wildcard support, which > supports your case amongst others: > > https://github.com/ojwb/xapian/tree/extended-wildcards >Amazing!> > But for URLs and email addresses, I'd recommend indexing them split at > the punctuation, which is how TermGenerator/QueryParser handle them. > >> Another small infrastructure bug is that >> https://lists.xapian.org/mailman/listinfo/xapian-devel says you can >> simply send an email to the list without subscribing, but it seems no >> one is paying attention to the moderation queue, so those messages just >> in moderation forever. This is a common problem among projects, but you >> can easily change the mailman page to say "You must subscribe to the >> list to send messages." > > The moderators are sent a list each day of held messages, and yours wasn't > in yesterday's so it's been on hold less than a day as far as I can tell. > > The queue is processed most days, so the text on the website seems > accurate to me: > > https://xapian.org/lists > > | Posts from non-subscribers currently require approval (we'd rather not > | have to impose this restriction, but we also want to avoid relaying spam > | to our subscribers). So if you aren't subscribed, there's likely to be a > | delay before your message is approved and relayed to the list. Please be > | patient and don't resend a message just because it doesn't appear right > | away. > > I've added that paragraph to the mailman templates in case people somehow > end up there without going via the website.Well, I feel silly not being patient and not reading enough. Sorry.> > Cheers, > OllyThank you so much, and thank you for your work on Xapian. - Ian
[Cross-posted to xapian-discuss and xapian-devel to help ensure people see this, sorry for if you get this twice. Reply-To set to xapian-discuss] On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 11:05:44PM +0100, Olly Betts wrote:> There's a bug in the trac account manager plugin which results in those > emails not getting sent correctly sometimes. James tracked it down > but I'm afraid I've not had a chance to install a workaround yet.I patched trac.xapian.org earlier today. Thanks to James for tracking down the bug (and apologies for taking a while to actually apply the fix). In case you're interested we believe this is the problem we've been hitting: https://trac-hacks.org/ticket/12228 If anyone still has issues with trac registration (or password reset or the like), please let us know. Cheers, Olly