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2018-02-28searchidxpart: chomp line before splitting
This was adding a needless newline into doc_data
2018-02-28use PublicInbox::MIME consistently
It works around some bugs in older Email::MIME which we'll find useful.
2018-02-28searchidxpart: binmode
Probably unnecessary, but set binmode for consistency across platforms.
2018-02-28v2writable: cleanup unused pipes in partitions
Leaking these pipes to child processes wasn't harmful, but made determining relationships and dataflow between processes more confusing.
2018-02-28v2/ui: retry DB reopens in a few more places
Relying more on Xapian requires retrying reopens in more places to ensure it does not fall down and show errors to the user.
2018-02-28v2/ui: some hacky things to get the PSGI UI to show up
Fortunately, Xapian multiple database support makes things easier but we still need to handle the skeleton DB separately.
2018-02-22v2writable: warn on duplicate Message-IDs
This should give us an idea of how much a problem deduplication will be.
2018-02-22searchidxpart: increase pipe size for partitions
We want to reduce the time in the main V2Writable process spends writing to the pipe, as the main process itself is the primary source of contention. While we're at it, always flush after writing to ensure the child sees it at once. (Grr... Perl doesn't use writev)
2018-02-22v2writable: round-robin to partitions based on article number
Instead of relying on the git object_id hash to partition, round-robin to these partitions based on the NNTP article number. This reduces the partition pipes as a source of contention when two (or more) sequential messages end up going to the same partition.
2018-02-22v2: parallelize Xapian indexing
The parallelization requires splitting Msgmap, text+term indexing, and thread-linking out into separate processes. git-fast-import is fast, so we don't bother parallelizing it. Msgmap (SQLite) and thread-linking (Xapian) must be serialized because they rely on monotonically increasing numbers (NNTP article number and internal thread_id, respectively). We handle msgmap in the main process which drives fast-import. When the article number is retrieved/generated, we write the entire message to per-partition subprocesses via pipes for expensive text+term indexing. When these per-partition subprocesses are done with the expensive text+term indexing, they write SearchMsg (small data) to a shared pipe (inherited from the main V2Writable process) back to the threader, which runs its own subprocess. The number of text+term Xapian partitions is chosen at import and can be made equal to the number of cores in a machine. V2Writable --> Import -> git-fast-import \-> SearchIdxThread -> Msgmap (synchronous) \-> SearchIdxPart[n] -> SearchIdx[*] \-> SearchIdxThread -> SearchIdx ("threader", a subprocess) [* ] each subprocess writes to threader
2018-02-20v2: support Xapian + SQLite indexing
This is too slow, currently. Working with only 2017 LKML archives: git-only: ~1 minute git + SQLite: ~12 minutes git+Xapian+SQlite: ~45 minutes So yes, it looks like we'll need to parallelize Xapian indexing, at least.
2018-02-19git: reload alternates file on missing blob
Since we'll be adding new repositories to the `alternates' file in git, we must restart the `git cat-file --batch' process as git currently does not detect changes to the alternates file in long-running cat-file processes. Don't bother with the `--batch-check' process since we won't be using it with v2.
2018-02-19v2writable: initial cut for repo-rotation
Wrap the old Import package to enable creating new repos based on size thresholds. This is better than relying on time-based rotation as LKML traffic seems to be increasing.
2018-02-16www: stop assuming mainrepo == git_dir
It won't be in v2
2018-02-16search: stop assuming Message-ID is unique
In general, they are, but there's no way for or general purpose mail server to enforce that. This is a step in allowing us to handle more corner cases which existing lists throw at us.
2018-02-16extmsg: fix broken Xapian MID lookup
This likely has no real world implications, though, as we fall back to Msgmap lookups anyways. Broken since commit 7eeadcb62729b0efbcb53cd9b7b181897c92cf9a ("search: remove unnecessary abstractions and functionality")
2018-02-15import: allow the epoch (0s) as a valid time
Despite email not existing until 1971; "Jan 1, 1970 00:00:00" seems like a common default timestamp for some test emails to use as a Date: header.
2018-02-15import: quiet down warnings from bogus From: lines
There's a lot of crap in archives and git-fast-import accepts empty names and email addresses for authors just fine.
2018-02-15import: pass "raw" dates to git-fast-import(1)
For LKML, it appears we need an even more liberal parser than RFC2822 date parser in git. I have not validated Date::Parse parses dates correctly, but this at least prevents git-fast-import(1) from choking.
2018-02-15address: extract more characters from email addresses
There's a lot of weird characters which show up in LKML archives which we did not support before. Furthermore, allow spaces before the '>' in the From: line as at least some non-spam poster used it.
2018-02-14searchidx: fix comment around next_thread_id
I decided not to copy the notmuch implementation regarding serialization of integers to Xapian metadata.
2018-02-14search: free up 'Q' prefix for a real unique identifier
This will allow easier-compatibility with v2 code which will introduce content_id as the unique identifier. The old "XMID" becomes "XM" as a free text searchable term. "Q" becomes "XMID" as a boolean prefix. There's no user-visible changes in this, but there needs to be a schema version bump later on... (more changes planned which can affect v1)
2018-02-14import: APIs to support v2 use
Wrap "get-mark" and "checkpoint" commands for git-fast-import while documenting/cementing parts of the API.
2018-02-13searchmsg: add mid_mime import for _extract_mid
Oops, I guess this code was never called and may not be needed. But for now, import it so it can run properly.
2018-02-12import: initial handling for v2
Call order will need to change a bit since this is going to be tied to Xapian
2018-02-09import: begin supporting this without ssoma.lock
We'll reuse this class in v2, but won't be utilizing per-git-repository ssoma.lock files. Meanwhile, stop treating ::Inbox objects as an afterthought and allow importing name and email into them.
2018-02-08import: stop writing legacy ssoma.index by default
For machines which have never seen ssoma, they don't need the index so stop creating it.
2018-02-08watch_maildir: allow '-' in mail filename
Hostnames can contain '-' and this allows public-inbox-watch(1) to work on machines which generate Maildir files with '-' in them.
2018-02-07update copyrights for 2018
Using update-copyrights from gnulib While we're at it, use the SPDX identifier for AGPL-3.0+ to ease mechanical processing.
2018-02-03view: allow expanding directly to "nested" view
Sometimes, it can be desirable to jump directly to the "nested" view when viewing a thread skeleton. This makes it possible. While we're at it, shorten some of the text to ensure it still fits in 80 columns.
2018-01-30view: close <pre> in reply instructions
We leave the mailto: link out when obfuscating address, so do not stuff the "</pre>" closing tag into it. Instead, keep the closing tag in the same context as the opening one, making it easier to keep track of.
2018-01-29reply: follow obfuscation rules for HTML in sh args
Namely, we do not want to obfuscate the mail address of the site itself.
2018-01-29view: adjust wording for reply-to-list configs
This makes the wording less confusing when showing archives for lists where the convention is reply-to-list. I still hate reply-to-list, but it's still better than no archives or list at all.
2018-01-26atom: show metadata before message body
This can allow streaming parsers (SAX) to work a little more efficiently as they can handle/discard all the metadata before the big content.
2018-01-16hval: only allow domain obfuscation in address
Obfuscating username portions of the email address leads to having subsequent parts of the address not being obfuscated; which could mean we show someone else's email entirely. In other words, obfuscating "john.doe@example.com" becomes might mean "doe@example.com" is picked up by scanners. In other news, email address obfuscation is still a horrible usability issue and only exists to appease misguided people.
2017-12-21view: avoid deduping a single word in subject skeletons
It is usually pointless to replace a single word with a '"' character.
2017-12-08search: force large mbox result downloads to POST
This should prevent crawlers (including most robots.txt ignoring ones) from burning our CPU time without severely compromising usability for humans.
2017-12-07searchview: nofollow on mbox downloads
Some search results are gigantic, and search engines are unlikely to be able to handle gzipped mboxes anyways.
2017-12-01search: allow downloading search results as mbox
Allowing downloading of all search results as an gzipped mboxrd file can be convenient for some users.
2017-11-29view: avoid warning from negative repeat counts
Perl 5.22 started warning about this.
2017-11-29searchview: s/threaded/nested/
We want to be consistent with the view change in commit b223e6f49debb99b9132bc85d97a065ebcee00b9
2017-11-16watch: use "spam" in commit message for removals
This makes it easy to identify the reason for message removals.
2017-11-16learn: use "spam" as subject for removal commits
Sometimes an email is an innocent removal "rm" for a misdirected, off-topic post, while most removed messages are "spam". Allow anybody to look at history and easily distinguish the reason for removing the message.
2017-10-18view: s/threaded/nested/ in view
We always do threading, so perhaps it's not a good name. "Nested" is probably more appropriate and closer to what people are used to seeing.
2017-10-04mbox: support inline filename via Content-Disposition header
This is hopefully more sensical than "raw" files from resulting downloads.
2017-10-03search: try to fill in ghosts when generating thread skeleton
Since we attempt to fill in threads by Subject, our thread skeletons can cross actual thread IDs, leading to the possibility of false ghosts showing up in the skeleton. Try to fill in the ghosts as well as possible by performing a message lookup.
2017-10-03threading: deal with improperly-terminated References headers
We should not blindly join References and In-Reply-To headers as a single string, because some messages can have an open angle brace '<' in References: without a corresponding '>'.
2017-07-13www: Atom stream respects timezone
Oops, we must not discard the timezone when parsing dates for the Atom stream.
2017-06-29view: cull redundant phrases in subjects
There is no need to show the same phrases over and over again in thread skeletons, it adds to visual noise and makes things more difficult to read.
2017-06-29hval: only perform one substitution when obfuscating
Only one substitution character is necessary when obfuscating email addresses.