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1. topic_vector to_tsvector english topic_body trecord topic_id UPDATE topic SET fts_vectors topic_vector WHERE topic topic_id trecord topic_id i 1 p i total_topics 100 RAISE NOTICE Progress p END LOOP END LANGUAGE plpgsql 5 14 GroupServer 12 11 Absinthe Acquired Arbitrarily 51 GroupServer Documentation Release 14 06 6 Populate the topic table with FTR data This may take some time SE H ECT topic_ftr_populate 7 Create an index for the FTR data This may take some time CREATE INDEX topic_fts_vectors ON topic USING gin fts_vectors 8 Create an index for the topics sorted by the last post date CREATE INDEX topic_last_post_date_idx ON topic last_post_date DESC 9 Create a trigger to update the FTR data CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION topic_fts_update RETURNS TRIGGER AS DECLARE topic_text TEXT BEGIN topic_text topic_body NEW topic_id j NEW fts_vectors to_tsvector english topic_text RETURN NEW END LANGUAGE plpgsql CREATE TRIGGER topic_update_trigger_01 BEFORE INSERT OR UPDATE ON topic FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE topic_fts
2. Packages System Ubuntu CentOS 6 1 or RHEL 6 1 python2 7 python devel Python python2 7 dev python setuptools python virtualenv See CentOS and RHEL below GNU C gt gec ctt Make build essential make postgresql postgresql postgresql server dev 9 1 postgresql server Fosters OE Database libpa dev postgresql 1libs postgresgl devel Postfix Email Server a peers post fix dev Redis redis server redis JPEG Support libjpeg62 dev libjpeg devel zlib zlib PNG Support Ap ip J ev SMTP Test swaks swaks 1 3 Download GroupServer is distributed as a tar file To download the latest version of GroupServer visit lt http groupserver org downloads gt and click Download You must then extract GroupServer from the tar file into a directory such as opt home or usr local When the tar file is extracted a new directory will be made This directory contains the configuration files for GroupServer In addition the installation process will download and install some dependencies into the directory see Run the Installer Finally GroupServer will be run from the same directory see Start Zope Permissions You may need to be the root user to extract the archive If you do then you must change the ownership of the new GroupServer directory and all of its contents GroupServer can only be run by users with normal privileges 1 4 Set up Setting up GroupServer is done in four steps first pick a host name then configure GroupServe
3. 1 The email address of the new member does not have to be verified as Facebook has already verified the address This reduces the number of steps required for sign up from three to two 2 Much of the profile information does not have to be added as it is copied in from Facebook The new member has a choice to use the older signup system that just uses email or the new Facebook signup The latter option is automatically available after the administrator has setup Facebook signup Setup You must acquire two values from Facebook to enable Facebook Signup Application ID Value This is the identifier for your Facebook application Application Secret Value This is the secret key that is passed from your site to Facebook To get these values you will need to register your site as an application with Facebook Do this by visiting lt https developers facebook com gt and following the instructions Facebook will then supply you with an App ID and App Secret Once you have these you can carry out the following tasks 38 Chapter 5 Release notes GroupServer Documentation Release 14 06 1 Log into the PostgreSQL database used GroupServer by using the following command psql Upgsql_user pgsql_dbname Note that pgsql_user and pgsql_dbname are the database user and database name that were set during installation Both can be found in the instance cfg file in the installation directory of GroupServer Run the following SQL
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5. GroupServer Documentation Release 14 06 5 11 1 Introduction The main update that is present in the Frozen Yoghurt release of GroupServer is a new stylesheet for devices with narrow displays There is also a new converter for HTML formatted messages In addition a number of minor fixes are part of this release You can get Frozen Yoghurt immediately Work is now starting on GroupServer 11 08 Banana Split Eaten in a Comfortable Silence Acknowledgements Thanks to Steven Clift for his support with the new stylesheet Thanks also to Le Coyote and Alice Murphy for testing an early release of Frozen Yoghurt 5 11 2 New Stylesheet Devices with narrow displays such as mobile phones and tablets now have a dedicated stylesheet The system uses CSS3 Media Queries to reformat the page when the browser window is narrow Pages that have been specifically optimised for small screen devices include e The site homepage e The group page e The topic page and e The image page Many other pages work on small screens including the post page and the topics page 5 11 3 HTML Formatted Messages Email messages can be in multiple formats including plain text and HTML Sometimes email messages are formatted using just HTML When this occurs GroupServer converts the HTML version of the message into a plain text version It is this plain text version of the post that is displayed on the Web pages The code that converts the HTML message in
6. Absinthe Acquired Arbitrarily 53 GroupServer Documentation Release 14 06 The script smtp2zope used to be used to marshal an email message from Postfix into GroupServer With the improved email handling this script should be deleted The replacement script is called smtp2gs It will be created when you update the products The command is simpler to use than the old script the options for the script are shown by running bin smtp2gs help Alternatively the README for the gs group messages add smtp2gs product documents the options The directory potfix_config in your GroupServer installation will contain an example aliases file for Postfix that uses smtp2gs This can be used to replace the old calls to GroupServer from Postfix ZMI Scripts Two scripts in the ZMI have to be replaced to gain some of the significant performance improvements 1 Visit the ZMI for your site By default it is at lt http localhost 8080 manage gt 2 Goto the folder example ListManager 3 Select the xwf_email_header script 4 Replace the contents of the script with the following groupld list_object listId siteId list_object siteld site getattr context Content siteld group_object getattr site groups groupld we copy the propertysheet because we won t be able to access it in the lower layer group_properties for p in group_object propertyItems group_properties p 0 p 1 group_properties id
7. 2 An unintentional site effect of rewriting the database interface was a fix for Bug 203 97 As part of the update to the group Feature 419 was closed 5 14 GroupServer 12 11 Absinthe Acquired Arbitrarily 49 GroupServer Documentation Release 14 06 The biggest change that is needed to update GroupServer to the Absinthe release is to update the rational database to support the new search system and some of the performance improvements The tables that are used to store the posts topics and topic keywords all need to be updated First create a backup While every effort has been made to crate a upgrade path that is smooth and with low risk there is still a chance that something can go wrong As such it is prudent to create a backup First create a backup of the relational database S pg_dump U gsadmin groupserver gt gs backup sql Where gsadmin is the PostgreSQL user that you set up when installing GroupServer and groupserver is the name of the database If you use relstorage create a backup of the ZODB pg_dump U gszodbadmin groupserverzodb gt gs zodb backup sql Where gszodbadmin is the PostgreSQL user for relstorage that you set up when installing GroupServer and groupserverzodb is the name of the database Posts Note Update the post s table after you create a backup Begin by updating the table that stores the posts 1 Log in to the PostgreSQL command line psql hlocahlost Ugsadmin groupserver Where gsadm
8. 29 GroupServer Documentation Release 14 06 The Slushy release of GroupServer contains two main enhancements You can get Slushy immediately Work is now starting on GroupServer 11 05 Eskimo Pie with Middle Class Guilt 5 8 1 Enhancements The two main enhancements to GroupServer are e Posts can now be hidden see Hide a Post below and e Full email addresses can now be used to issue invitations There are also some minor fixes Hide a Post The most significant change to GroupServer is the introduction of an interface to allow posts to be hidden Both administrators and the author of the post can hide it People trying to view the post by itself or in a topic will see the reason the post was hidden instead of the message Anyone trying to view a file or image that was added as part of the post will see an error page that states why the post was hidden Full Email Addresses Prior to Slushy GroupServer would only accept the portion of an email address with an in it such as support onlinegroups net Now the Invite a New Member page can handle the full address This address can include a name such as OnlineGroups Net Support lt support onlinegroups net gt Other pages will be converted to support full addresses over time Minor Fixes Minor fixes in Slushy include e A fix to the Join and Leave Log so it now uses jQuery UI tabs e A fix to the view link in the content editor so it works and e Resolving
9. Chapter 5 Release notes GroupServer Documentation Release 14 06 New style pages The main update to GroupServer has been the implementation of new pages on the Web interface Issue 3423 The navigation has been extensively reworked there is an updated layout for most pages and pages have been integrated with Twitter Bootstrap The profile images are now mostly square with new code to improve their performance In addition the pages have been made more responsive and the performance of the pages has been improved Acknowledgements The pages were redesigned by Mike Harding from Cactuslab to whom all praise should be given Navigation The navigation scheme for GroupServer has changed dramatically in this release moving away from the context menu along the left and dropping the site menu along the top entirely In their place is a system based on breadcrumbs Issue 3510 The Profile page is the only page left that makes use of the context menu Updated layout The Group page and Site homepage have been updated so they have asymmetric columns with less important information placed in the smaller column on the right Both make use of Twitter Bootstrap the updated profile images and the updated lists The Group page gets an updated About area and Change about page Issue 3871 The Site homepage gets a new Welcome area Issue 3869 in addition to an updated Introduction Issue 3870 The layout of the To
10. False and hasattr d groups interfaces Products GSContent interfaces IGSFullPageContentFolder ignore contentFolders site_root Content objectValues folders sites s for s in contentFolders if s getId not in ignore and s getProperty is_division False and hasattr s groups print lt html gt lt head gt lt title gt Site update lt title gt lt head gt lt body gt for site in sites print lt hr gt print lt p gt s lt code gt s lt code gt lt p gt site title_or_id site getld remove_marker_interfaces site interfaces print lt p gt Removed the content marker lt p gt print lt body gt lt html gt return printed Click the Save Changes button Click the Test tab The marker interfaces for all the sites should be updated 5 13 GroupServer 12 05 Faloodeh Consumed with an Eye on History 43 GroupServer Documentation Release 14 06 Update the Group Marker Interface Updating the marker interfaces in a group is similar to how you update the site marker interface 1 Log into the ZMI for your GroupServer Installation 2 Navigate to your GroupServer instance in the ZMI called groupserver by default 3 Add a script by selecting Script Python from the Add menu near the top right of the ZMI page e Give the new script the Id remove_xwf_chat_group_marker e Click the Add and edit button 4 Change the contents of the script to
11. an error with the Change Email Settings page that occurred when someone had no preferred email address set gt 5 8 2 Get Slushy To get Slushy go to the Downloads page for GroupServer and follow the GroupServer Installation documentation Those who already have a functioning installation can update an existing GroupServer system Updaie an Existing GroupServer System To upgrade an existing GroupServer system to Slushy you must first update the database and then update the packages 46 The new Hide a Post interface closes Ticket 316 and many minor tickets that were related to hiding a post 47 Support a full email address closes Ticket 445 48 Switching the Join and Leave Log to use tabs from jQuery UI closes Ticket 641 49 Fixing the issue with the view link closes Ticket 642 50 Fixing the coding error on with the Change Email Settings page closes Ticket 660 30 Chapter 5 Release notes GroupServer Documentation Release 14 06 Update the Database The hide a post update requires a change to the database tables that are uses to record information about topics and posts It also requires the creation of a new table to record information about why posts have been hidden Too update the database carry out the following steps 1 Log into the PostgreSQL database used GroupServer by using the following command psql Upgsql_user pgsql_dbname Note that pgsql_user and pgsql_dbname are the database user and database name that
12. are present in the Soft Serve release are an update to the code that determines 1f someone can post and a rebuild of the site administration pages In addition there are other minor fixes that have been made You can get Soft Serve immediately Work is now starting on GroupServer 11 07 Frozen Yoghurt Accompanied by Carols 5 10 GroupServer 11 06 Soft Serve from Mr Whippy 33 GroupServer Documentation Release 14 06 Acknowledgements Thanks to Le Coyote and DJS for their very helpful suggestions and testing early releases of Soft Serve 5 10 2 Can Post When someone posts to a group the system checks to see if the user has the correct permissions The code that does this is known as the can post code In Soft Serve this code has undergone two main changes 1 Email addresses can be blocked from posting This mechanism known as blacklisting extends the existing system that prevented addresses on the black list from receiving posts There is no user interface for this system 2 The code has been moved to its own product 5 10 3 Site Administration Pages The site administration pages did not work well All the site administration pages have been updated In particular the pages that allow an administrator to set the site timezone and change the site name have been fixed so they work correctly 5 10 4 Minor Fixes Minor fixes in Soft Serve include the following e If a member with a single unverified
13. ball Copy the file groupserver 11 07 versions cfg to your existing GroupServer installation Copy the file groupserver 11 07 buildout cfg to your existing GroupServer installation In your existing GroupServer installation run bin easy_install U setuptools bin python bootstrap py bin buildout 5 11 GroupServer 11 07 Frozen Yoghurt Accompanied by Carols 37 GroupServer Documentation Release 14 06 The setuptools have to be updated and bootstrap py rerun because the version of Zope used by GroupServer has undergone an update 5 11 6 Footnotes 5 12 GroupServer 11 08 Banana Split Eaten in a Comfortable Si lence Authors Michael JasonSmith Richard Waid Dan Randow Contact Michael JasonSmith lt mpj17 onlinegroups net gt Date 2011 08 31 Organization GroupServer org Copyright This document is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3 0 New Zealand License by OnlineGroups Net 5 12 1 Introduction The main update that is present in the Banana release of GroupServer is a Facebook signup system You can get Banana Split immediately Acknowledgements Thanks to Steven Clift for his support for the Facebook signup system 5 12 2 Facebook Signup Previously new members had to provide all their profile information during signup Now new members have the option of logging into Facebook to retrieve the profile information Signing up using Facebook is beneficial in two ways
14. case of Apache the rewrite rule would look like the following RewriteRule http localhost 8080 skin green groupserver Content initial_site VirtualHostB 4 3 Change the skin 17 GroupServer Documentation Release 14 06 18 Chapter 4 Configuring a web proxy CHAPTER 5 Release notes 5 1 GroupServer 10 09 Spaghettieis with a Wafer of Confusion Authors Michael JasonSmith Richard Waid Alice Murphy Dan Randow Contact Michael JasonSmith lt mpj17 onlinegroups net gt Date 2010 09 09 Organization GroupServer org Copyright This document is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3 0 New Zealand License by OnlineGroups Net The changes below form the bulk of what is new in the Spaghettieis release of GroupServer Work is now progressing on GroupServer 10 10 Gelato while Viewing the Sights 5 1 1 Invitations All the pages that deal with issuing and responding to invitations have changed Issuing a Single Invitation The biggest visible change with invitations is to the page used to issue a single invitation The administrator can write a personal message to the invited member The administrator can preview the message and preview the response page Hopefully this will encourage more invitations to be written as they are less likely to get marked as spam and are more likely to get a response The from address of the invitation is now set to the address of the administrator
15. group marker interface will be removed e Select gs group type support interfaces IGSSupportGroup in the Available Marker Interfaces list f Click the Add button The support group marker interface will be added 8 Change the announcement groups to the correct marker interface by carrying out the following for each group 44 Chapter 5 Release notes GroupServer Documentation Release 14 06 a Navigate to the group b Click on the Interfaces tab c Select gs group type discussion interfaces IGSDiscussionGroup in the Provided Interfaces list d Click the Remove button The discussion group marker interface will be removed e Select gs group type announcement interfaces IGSAnnouncementGroup in the Available Marker Interfaces list f Click the Add button The announcement group marker interface will be added 9 Finally remove the legacy group support from your site a Copy the file groupserver 12 05 versions cfg to your existing GroupServer installation under the name versions cfg b Copy the file groupserver 12 05 buildout cfg to your existing GroupServer installation under the name buildout cfg c In your existing GroupServer installation run bin buildout N d Restart your GroupServer instance 5 14 GroupServer 12 11 Absinthe Acquired Arbitrarily Authors Michael JasonSmith Richard Waid Dan Randow Contact Michael JasonSmith lt mpj17 onlinegroups net gt Date 2012 11 12
16. group_object getId xmailer getValueFor xmailer mailto getValueFor mailto replyToProp list_object getProperty replyto if replyToProp sender replyto None else replyto getValueFor mailto CEY group_properties division_id site aq_explicit getld group_properties division_title site aq_explicit title except group_properties division_id group_properties division_title files LEY storage context FileLibrary2 get_fileStorage for file_id in file_ids file storage get_file file_id if file files append file except pass 54 Chapter 5 Release notes GroupServer Documentation Release 14 06 return context email_header REQUEST list_object list_object group_properties group_properties getValueFor getValueFor title title mail mail body body files files post_id post_id mailto mailto replyto replyto xmailer xmailer strip Click the Save Changes button Click ListManager at the top of the page to return to the List Manager folder Select the xwf_email_footer script o N nN Replace the contents of the script with the following groupld list_object listId siteId list_object siteld site getattr context Content siteld group_object getattr site groups groupld we copy the propertysheet because we won t be able to access it in the
17. groupserver 5 Restart Apache service apache2 restart 4 2 3 Add a virtual host to nginx Open etc nginx sites avaliable groupserver in a text editor 1 Add the following to the file 16 Chapter 4 Configuring a web proxy GroupServer Documentation Release 14 06 upstream gs server localhost 8080 server listen 80 server_name groups example com location rewrite x VirtualHostBase http Shost 80 groupserver Content initial_site VirtualHostRoc proxy_pass http gs include proxy_params server listen 80 server_name zmi groups example com location rewrite x VirtualHostBase http Shost 80 VirtualHostRoot 1 break proxy_pass http gs include proxy_params e Change the server_name from groups example com to that of you new virtual host e Make a similar change to the second server keeping the zmi at the start 2 Link the configuration for your host cd etc nginx sites enabled ln s 100 groupserver groupserver 3 Reload the nginx configuration service nginx reload 4 3 Change the skin One of the advantages of adding a proxy is it allows the skin to be easily changed GroupServer ships with two skins green and blue To change the skin you must alter the rewrite rule In the case of nginx the rewrite rule will look like the following rewrite skin blue VirtualHostBase http host 80 groupserver Content initial_site VirtualHo In the
18. he or she cannot post before they try to post The Can Post system is now self documenting and it allows for more extensible groups More Extensible Groups Along with the new can post code the definition of what constitutes a group has been redefined GroupServer has always supported three different types of group Discussion Group A group where only group members can post Announcement Group A group where only certain group members can post Support Group A group where anyone can post but only group members can view the posts These group types previously existed as a set of configuration options Now there are specific marker interfaces for each of these group types Currently only the can post system uses them extensively but other systems will follow in the future Profile Improvements The primary improvements to profiles is a new Verify Email Address notification Like the new notifications in the group the new Verify email message has a HTML version which is shown by default by most email clients The wording of the Verify email has also been changed so it is hopefully easier to understand All the notifications with an HTML component are possible because of a new system for sending notifications This system is documented as part of the gs profile notify component Site Homepage The site homepage has been completely rewritten but it looks largely unchanged Now the page provided by the new gs site home prod
19. or Ubuntu Note You will need to be the root user to carry out most of these tasks 1 Copy the configuration files from the GroupServer installation into the Postfix configuration directory cp postfix_config groupserver x etc postfix Change the ownership of the files to the Postfix user and group For Ubuntu this would be chown nobody nogroup etc postfix groupserver x If you are on a system other than Ubuntu running the following will display the user name of the Postfix user usr sbin postconf grep default_privs cut f3 d Open the file etc postfix main cf in a text editor Find the line that begins with alias_maps Add the item hash etc postfix groupserver virtual to the end of the alias_maps line Use a comma to separate the new item from the existing items Find the line that begins with alias_database 13 GroupServer Documentation Release 14 06 7 Add the item hash etc postfix groupserver virtual totheend of the alias_database line Use a comma to separate the new item from the existing items 8 Add the following to the bottom unless it is previously defined smtpd_authorized_verp_clients 127 0 0 1 9 Generate the Postfix hashes postmap etc postfix groupserver virtual postalias etc postfix groupserver aliases 10 Restart Postfix service postfix restart 14 Chapter 3 Configuring Postfix CHAPTER 4 Configuring a web proxy Authors Michael Ja
20. page for GroupServer and follow the GroupServer Installation documen tation Those who already have a functioning installation can update an existing GroupServer system Update an Existing GroupServer System To update an existing GroupServer system to Frozen Yoghurt you must update the database and then update the packages Update the Database The new options code requires the creation of a new table to record information about the properties of the various parts of GroupServer see Minor Fixes To update the database carry out the following steps 1 Log into the PostgreSQL database used GroupServer by using the following command psql Upgsql_user pgsql_dbname Note that pgsql_user and pgsql_dbname are the database user and database name that were set during installation Both can be found in the instance cfg file in the installation directory of GroupServer NULL NULL NULL NULL Run the following SQL to create the options table CREATE TABLE option component_id EX NOT option_id EX NOT site_id EX NOT group_id EX NOT value EX i CREATE UNIQUE INDEX option_idx ON option component_id Update the Packages option_id site_id group_id To upgrade the pages in an existing GroupServer system to Frozen Yoghurt carry out the following steps l HN E a Download the Frozen Yoghurt tar ball from the GroupServer download page Uncompress the tar
21. set to the email address of the site support Setting the Reply to to the address of the administrator that issued the invitation closes Ticket 681 64 In an announcement group there is a distinction between group members that post posting members and members that just view posts normal members Prior to Soft Serve all group members saw the link on the homepage to the Start a Topic page A normal member would see an error if he or she followed that link Just showing the link on the homepage to the posting members closes Ticket 530 65 Prior to Soft Serve the initial GroupServer instance site and group had names that contained example Now the instance is called groupserver the initial site is called initial_site and the initial group is called example_group Renaming the instance and site Ticket 690 66 Fixing the coding error on the Members page closes Ticket 680 34 Chapter 5 Release notes GroupServer Documentation Release 14 06 Update an Existing GroupServer System To upgrade an existing GroupServer system to Soft Serve you must first update the packages and then update the ZMI Update the Packages Carry out the following steps to update the package versions 1 RN AeA W N Download the Soft Serve tar ball from the GroupServer download page Uncompress the tar ball Copy the file groupserver 11 06 versions cfg to your existing GroupServer installation Copy the file groupserver 11 06 buildout cfg to your exi
22. to show and the attachments to hide has been rewritten to allow more attachments through Issue 4073 Join and leave log The Join and leave log has been moved to the Members page Issue 3683 WMYeditor updated The WYMeditor is used to provide editing of HTML content such as the About area in a group It has been updated to work with Query 1 9 Issue 3868 Keywords on the Topic page Keywords summarising what has been discussed are now shown at the top of the Topic page Issue 877 Privacy on the Group page The privacy setting for a group is shown on the Group page near the email address for the group Issue 3914 Accessibility WAI ARIA attributes have been added throughout GroupServer to improve the accessibility Python 3 updates The slow journey to convert GroupServer from Python 2 to Python 3 has been started At this stage three sets of changes have been made or are being made e Ensuring the code is consistent with PEP 8 e Switching to Unicode literals where possible PEP 3112 and e Switching to absolute import PEP 328 5 15 3 Get Ouzo To get Ouzo go to the Downloads page for GroupServer and follow the GroupServer Installation documentation Those who already have a functioning installation can update an existing GroupServer system Update an Existing GroupServer System To update a system running the Absinthe release of GroupServer 12 11 to Ouzo 14 03 carry out the following steps 1 Download the Ouz
23. topic and post titles 37 The new Unexpected Error page is detailed in a post to GroupServer Development 38 The traversal errors were those caused by not handling errors that were thrown by pages in the messages profile and files area 3 Recording more information about email addresses changing closes Ticket 432 40 Updating search closes Ticket 227 28 Chapter 5 Release notes GroupServer Documentation Release 14 06 e An Edit this page link is sometimes shown to logged out users on editable pages The Accept Invitation page looks a lot better You can get Pineapple Snow immediately Work is now starting on GroupServer 11 04 Slushy followed by a Pounding Headache 5 7 1 Updated Change Email Settings Page The Change Email Settings page has had an extensive redesign Email addresses can be dragged from one list to another in order to characterise them The old interface relied on menus and multiple buttons and was far harder to use In addition the new interface automatically updates when an email address is verified The new interface uses the jQuery UI JavaScript library just like the group homepage jQuery UI is an excellent library builds on the already great jQuery library 5 7 2 Get Pineapple Snow To get Pineapple Snow go to the Downloads page for GroupServer and follow the GroupServer Installation documen tation Those who already have a functioning installation can update an existing G
24. was setup during installation Both can be found in the instance cfg file in the installation directory of GroupServer 2 Run the following SQL to update the post and topic tables ALTER TABLE topic ADD COLUMN hidden TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE ALTER TABLE post ADD COLUMN hidden TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE 3 Finally create the hidden post table by running the following SQL commands CREATE TABLE hidden_post post_id TEXT REFERENCES post ON UPDATE CASCADE date_hidden TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE NOT NULL hiding_user TEXT NOT NULL reason TEX Y CREATE UNIQUE INDEX hidden _post_pkey ON hidden_post USING BTREE post_id date_hidden Update the Packages Carry out the following steps to update the package versions 1 Download the Pineapple Snow tar ball from the GroupServer download page 2 Uncompress the tar ball 3 Copy the file groupserver 11 04 versions cfgto your existing GroupServer installation 4 In your existing GroupServer installation run bin buildout N 5 9 GroupServer 11 05 Eskimo Pie with Middle Class Guilt Authors Michael JasonSmith Richard Waid Dan Randow Contact Michael JasonSmith lt mpj17 onlinegroups net gt Date 2011 05 27 Organization GroupServer org Copyright This document is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3 0 New Zealan
25. 510 25 Creating the new help pages closes Ticket 485 26 The new group properties page closes Ticket 292 27 The GroupServer Development group hosted a lively debate about topics 5 3 GroupServer 10 11 Kulfi Craved while Caving 23 GroupServer Documentation Release 14 06 5 3 2 Delivery Settings Page The page used to change the email delivery settings of a group member has been updated The biggest advantage to the new page is that administrators can now change the delivery settings of group members For members the page looks and behaves much as it did before However the system has undergone a major rework behind the scenes This will make the page easier to maintain extend and change 5 3 3 Start a Group The start a group system has been simplified to a one step process Rather than a separate Preview step the new system dynamically previews the URL and email address of the new group It also dynamically checks if the group identifier is unique It is not possible to create announcement groups with the simplified system However announcement groups are still supported by GroupServer and will continue to be supported To create an announcement group first create a discussion group Then use the ZMI to change the group_template property to announcement 5 3 4 Group Homepage About Tab The new group homepage about tab replaces the little used Charter page The new tab provides a blank area where a site administrato
26. 9 GroupServer Documentation Release 14 06 Contact Michael JasonSmith lt mpj17 onlinegroups net gt Date 2012 05 02 Organization GroupServer org Copyright This document is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3 0 New Zealand License by OnlineGroups Net 5 13 1 Introduction The changes to GroupServer in the Faloodeh release cover sites groups and profiles making them all more usable and extensible You can get Faloodeh immediately 5 13 2 Changes to GroupServer The changes in Faloodeh are mostly group improvements profile improvements and a new site homepage In addition we have made steps towards easier installation and there have been some minor changes Group Improvements The most visible change to groups in this release of GroupServer is to the notifications However the primary im provement is new code to determine if someone can post to a group Underlying this is a system for more extensible groups Minor changes to groups include the following Better Links in Posts Now http youtu be links are turned into embedded YouTube videos and www links are turned into hypertext links Thanks to Steven Clift at E Democracy Org for sponsoring this im provement Rest of Post Button The button to show the remainder of a post normally just bottom quoted text is now labelled Rest of post Public Access Period The default public access period for files is now set to 72 hours This
27. Documentation Release 14 06 2 4 1 Virtual machines With virtual machines it can be difficult to connect from your desktop which has a Web browser to GroupServer running on the hosted machine The documentation for your chosen virtual environment should cover how to expose the network interface for a hosted Web service such as GroupServer 2 4 Issues and problems 11 GroupServer Documentation Release 14 06 12 Chapter 2 Starting and stopping GroupServer CHAPTER 3 Configuring Postfix Authors Michael JasonSmith Fabien Hespul Contact Michael JasonSmith lt mpj17 onlinegroups net gt Date 2014 06 23 Organization GroupServer org Copyright This document is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4 0 Interna tional License by OnlineGroups net Postfix provides the email interface for GroupServer GroupServer uses Postfix to e Queue email that is delivered to groups and e Pass the email messages to GroupServer Configuration files for the Postfix mail server are created when GroupServer is installed However it is necessary to change some configuration files so Postfix will send email messages on to GroupServer See also If you are new to administering Postfix you may find the Ubuntu Community Postfix Documen tation useful Postfix has to know to run two scripts when email messages come in for your GroupServer site Below are the steps for configuring Postfix for either Debian
28. ER count_word_count_rows ON word_count 3 Drop the old tables that were used for searching DROP TABLE topic_word_count DROP TABLE word_count Even with the FTR data duplicated in the post and topic table there is a nett saving of space once these two tables are dropped 4 Add the function that is used to create the body of the topic CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION topic_body topic_id TEXT RETURNS TEXT AS DECLARE topic_text TEXT subject TEXT retval TEXT BEGIN SELECT string_agg post body INTO topic_text FROM post WHERE post topic_id topic_body topic_id AND post hidden IS NULL SELECT COALESCE post subject INTO subject FROM post WHERE post topic_id topic_body topic_id LIMIT 1 retval left subject topic_text 1048575 RETURN retval END LANGUAGE plpgsql 5 Create the function that will topic table with FTR data CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION topic_ftr_populate RETURNS void AS DECLARE total_topics REAL trecord RECORD topic_vector tsvector topic_text TEXT i REAL DEFAULT 0 p REAL BEGIN SELECT CAST total_rows AS REAL INTO total_topics FROM rowcount WHERE table_name topic FOR trecord IN SELECT FROM topic WHERE fts_vectors IS NULL LOOP RAISE NOTICE Topic trecord topic_id
29. ES trecord topic_id new_keywords i i 1 p i total_topics 100 RAISE NOTICE Progress p END LOOP END LANGUAGE plpgsql Populate the topic_keywords table This may take some time SELECT topic_keywords_populate Products To update an existing GroupServer installation to Absinthe carry out the following steps 1 2 10 Download the Absinthe tar ball from the GroupServer download page Uncompress the tar ball tar cfz groupserver 12 11 tar gz Change to the directory that contains your existing GroupServer installation Make a backup of your custom configuration cp custom cfg custom bk cfg cp config cfg config bk cfg Copy the new configuration files to your existing GroupServer installation cp groupserver 12 11 cfg Restore your custom configuration mv custom bk cfg custom cfg mv config bk cfg config cfg Disable the creation of the database tables echo 1 gt var create tables cfg Disable the creation of a new GroupServer site echo 1 gt var setup gs cfg In your existing GroupServer installation run bin buildout n Restart your GroupServer instance Scripts Some external scripts have changed in the Absinthe release of GroupServer and need to be changed In addition some ZMI scripts should also be updated 5 14 GroupServer 12 11
30. GroupServer Documentation Release 14 06 groupserver org October 23 2014 Contents 1 GroupServer installation 1 lel Quick stait e 24 6534 444 955 40 256 rd eee ibd beets badd 1 JAS AAA NA 2 E3 Download 2 t00 e ehh ee Orie DD AAA A a 2 LA SUP A a e e R eRe a Sees 2 1 3 Run the installer oo eos cir ii A e eee eee Pea 4 1 6 Remove GroupServer sac a A a ee eS a 6 L7 E A E ee a a ee a a a eS a ie ee wl ew Sa S 6 ES IRESOUTCES E gigia oa ic Ge Bh ae a A O fay BU Go EI Be CRORE ok Reed eee 7 2 Starting and stopping GroupServer 9 2A IMtrOGUCHON Ss ere Bae as HR So ee Oe Re See ow ee ee ee Ae 9 2 2 Tyme out GroupServer 4 3 A AA See oO Brees 9 2 3 RUMMINp GroupServer sna sose A a a a a ch a Be a Bee 10 2A ISSUES and problems 25 5 a Pe REHEARSE A ee ee a 10 3 Configuring Postfix 13 4 Configuring a web proxy 15 4 JntrogductiOn 244 5620 rr ee SERRE NS bee es Ee ES HS 15 42 Add avirtualhost suis sew a e Ee eee ee Fe Gb a as 15 45 Change the Skim se sei foe a Xo Gee ee ee a a we ale E eo ee a IR ee 17 5 Release notes 19 5 1 GroupServer 10 09 Spaghettieis with a Wafer of Confusion 19 5 2 GroupServer 10 10 Gelato while Viewing the Sights o o 21 5 3 GroupServer 10 11 Kulfi Craved while Caving o o ooo e e 23 5 4 GroupServer 10 12 Lemon Ice in the Cool of the Evening 26 5 5 GroupServer 11 01 Baked Alaska w
31. License by OnlineGroups net 5 16 1 Introduction The major changes to GroupServer in the Slivovica release include making the system easier to install better at handling email and improving the reliability You can get Slivovica immediately 5 16 2 Changes to GroupServer For new installations of GroupServer the most important change is the updated buildout recipes that should make the process of installing GroupServer more robust For existing systems DMARC support has been added as well as improvements to how incoming SMTP is handled Finally there have been many other minor code improvements 5 16 GroupServer 14 06 Slivovica shots at sunset 61 GroupServer Documentation Release 14 06 Updated buildout recipes GroupServer itself is installed using four recipes that are used by Buildout All four recipes have been improved There is now a base recipe class that is shared by the recipes and unit tests have been added to ensure the recipes work as expected Specific improvements include the following e The recipe that creates the Postfix configuration has been updated fixing a problem that Bill found e The recipe that crates the PostgreSQL tables now uses the setuptools package to extract the SQL files from the different modules The modules are now passed into the recipe from Buildout rather than being written in the recipe e The creation of the GroupServer site is now simpler as only the site administrator is create
32. Michael JasonSmith lt mpj17G onlinegroups net gt Date 2010 11 30 Organization GroupServer org Copyright This document is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3 0 New Zealand License by OnlineGroups Net The changes below form the bulk of what is new in the Kulfi release of GroupServer e Enhancements to groups including a clearer group properties page a more flexible delivery settings page a simplified start a group process and a new group homepage about tab e Management of a group member is now easier e There have been some set password enhancements and notification updates e Finally the buildout process has been improved All these enhancements will be available to new GroupServer installations and those who update an existing groupserver system Work is now progressing on GroupServer 10 12 Lemon Ice in the Cool of the Evening 5 3 1 Group Properties Page The page used to set the group properties has been simplified following a discussion about the properties There are fewer properties as many properties have been replaced by the group homepage about tab The properties that remain have been given clearer names The new group properties page is now a standard zope ormlib form rather than relying on the older GroupServer XForms code This means that standard features of forms on GroupServer are present such as popup help 2 Creating the new favicon for GroupServer closes Ticket
33. Organization GroupServer org Copyright This document is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3 0 New Zealand License by OnlineGroups Net 5 14 GroupServer 12 11 Absinthe Acquired Arbitrarily 45 GroupServer Documentation Release 14 06 Contents e GroupServer 12 11 Absinthe Acquired Arbitrarily Introduction x Acknowledgements Changes Visible to Participants New Search System Better Error Pages New Help System In Context Administration Guide Closed Groups Profile Search SVG Thumbnails Changes to the Underlying System Configuration System Improved Email Handling New Authentication System Relstorage Performance Improvements SQLAIchemy Update x More Flexible Group Page Get Absinthe Update an Existing GroupServer System Resources X LK XXX A 5 14 1 Introduction There are fourteen major changes to GroupServer in the Absinthe release making the system more useful usable and extensible for both group members administrators and developers The changes visible to participants are mostly subtle improvements to existing features rather than new features In contrast the changes to the underlying system are complex and extensive You can get Absinthe immediately Acknowledgements Thanks to Bill Bushey with the support of E Democracy org for the improvements to the SVG thumbnails Thanks to Bill and Marek Kuziel for testing some early versio
34. Performance Improvements There have been some major performance improvements made to GroupServer in the Absinthe release This includes the removal of some old poorly performing code and altering some of the member management code SQLAIchemy Update The entire interface between GroupServer and the PostgreSQL relational database has been rewritten This has allowed GroupServer to update its SQLAIchemy dependency from the ancient 0 3 release to the current 0 7 release More Flexible Group Page The group page was refactored to make it more flexible This allows the addition of the in context administration guide and for other features to be added by skins 5 14 4 Get Absinthe To get Absinthe go to the Downloads page for GroupServer and follow the GroupServer Installation documentation Those who already have a functioning installation can update an existing GroupServer system Update an Existing GroupServer System Updating a system running the Faloodeh release of GroupServer 12 06 to Absinthe is a three step process which includes updating the relational database the products and the scripts Relational Database 92 Rewriting the script that is used to add email messages to a group closes Feature 687 and Feature 3536 9 The creation of a new authentication system closes Bug 3416 94 The removal of the old division_object getter closes Bug 279 95 The optimisation of the member handling code closes Bug 3659
35. Strict mode has been turned on in more of the JavaScript modules that support the GroupServer interface Code written with strict mode turned on is more likely to be correct and is executed more quickly in modern browsers Finally more code now raises errors rather than relying on assert statements As these errors should never happen hopefully no one will notice a difference 5 16 3 Get Slivovica To get Slivovica go to the Downloads page for GroupServer and follow the GroupServer Installation documentation Those who already have a functioning installation can update an existing GroupServer system Update an Existing GroupServer System To update a system running the Ouzo release of GroupServer 14 03 to Slivovica 14 06 carry out the following steps 1 Download the Slivovica tar ball from the GroupServer download page 2 Uncompress the tar ball tar cfz groupserver 14 06 tar gz 3 Change to the directory that contains your existing GroupServer installation 4 Copy the new version configuration files to your existing GroupServer installation cp groupserver 14 06 vz x cfg 5 In your existing GroupServer installation run bin buildout n 6 Restart your GroupServer instance 5 16 4 Resources e Code repository https source iopen net groupserver Questions and comments to http groupserver org groups development e Report bugs at https redmine iopen net projects groupserver 5 16 GroupServer 14 06
36. This will hopefully reduce the chances of the invitation being caught in a spam filter even further The email address entry on the invitation page handles incorrect data better so only email addresses can be entered In the future I would like GroupServer to be more flexible with the format of the addresses that are entered but today is not that day 1 The GroupServer Development online group contains examples of e The invitation message preview and e The response page Setting the From address in invitations correctly will close Ticket 290 3 Being strict about what can be entered as an email address fixes Ticket 325 The fix also corrects the same error with the sign up page 4 More tolerant email address handling will hopefully come in Baked Alaska 19 GroupServer Documentation Release 14 06 Inviting Site Members The page for inviting site members has been spruced up but it has not been overhauled in any major way The invitation message can now be changed However it cannot be previewed because I am lazy and did not want to go through the hassle of writing a preview of the Accept Invitation page for existing site members If someone actually uses Invite Site Members and bothers to write a ticket I may get some motivation to write a preview page Inviting People In Bulk The system for inviting people in bulk by uploading a CSV remains much the same Those who use the page a lot will notice some better handling o
37. Ticket 205 2 Ticket 231 3 Ticket 531 24 Chapter 5 Release notes GroupServer Documentation Release 14 06 5 3 8 Buildout Buildout is the system that GroupServer uses to install the system The buildout process has been improved in three ways First some issues with the environment relating to installing 1xm1 have been resolved Second the standard system is used to add the default administrator and user to the example group This should reduce the chance of errors occurring in the future Finally summary information about the new GroupServer site is displayed at the end of the buildout process This should make it easier to start and view the new GroupServer site 5 3 9 Update an Existing GroupServer System To update an existing GroupServer system to Kulfi you will have to update the package versions update the SQL and update the ZODB Update the Package Versions Carry out the following steps to update the package versions 1 Download the Kulfi tar ball from the GroupServer download page 2 Uncompress the tar ball 3 Copy the file groupserver 10 11 versions cfg to your existing GroupServer installation 4 In your existing GroupServer installation run bin buildout N Update the SQL The set password enhancements require an update to the relational database that stores GroupServer data Carry out the following steps to update the database 1 In instance cfg look up pgsql_dbname and the pgsql_user and note t
38. _update Topic Keywords Finally the system that displays the topic keywords has been changed The keywords are now calculated when someone posts and are stored in the topic_keywords table Previously they were calculated when the list of topics was displayed 1 Download the file 0O3 keywords sql wget no check certificate https source iopen net groupserver gs group messages topic rawfile This contains the SQL that is normally executed when Absinthe is installed 2 Interpret execute the file in PostgreSQL Ni path to the download 03 keywords sql Where path to the download is the full path to where the file 03 keywords sql is stored 3 Create the function to populate the new topic_keywords table CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION topic_keywords_populate RETURNS void AS DECLARE total_topics REAL trecord RECORD topic_text TEXT new_keywords TEXT i REAL DEFAULT 0 p REAL BEGIN SELECT CAST total_rows AS REAL INTO total_topics FROM rowcount WHERE table_name topic 52 Chapter 5 Release notes GroupServer Documentation Release 14 06 4 FOR trecord IN SELECT FROM topic LOOP RAISE NOTICE Topic trecord topic_id topic_text topic_body trecord topic_id SELECT ARRAY SELECT word FROM topic_keywords trecord topic_id topic_text INTO new_keywords INSERT INTO topic_keywords VALU
39. accept or decline invitations stays much as it was It does gain the group summary from the Accept Invitation page that is shown to new members It also shares the fixes to the notifications that are sent to the new member and the group administrators 5 1 2 Join and Leave The pages that are by people to join a group without an invitation have also changed 5 OnlineGroups Net could not ship an Invite by CSV page with an editable message as it is an invitation to spam people However we are not be averse to someone writing a page with an editable message and including that in GroupServer 6 The GroupServer Development group contains an example of the new Invitation Response page 7 Sending a welcome message when joining a group will close Ticket 303 Previously new members only saw a welcome message when signing up or joining a group themselves The same fix also removed a rather nasty hack 8 Logging the declined invitations closes Ticket 278 It is also what allows people to be redurected if they follow invitations that have had a response It will also add another entry in the ongoing saga Why Physical Deletes are the Work of the Devil 2 A simple Cron job would probably be fine at cleaning up the unwanted profiles see Ticket 446 10 Telling all group administrators that a new member has joined a group will close an irritating issue with GroupServer 11 Adding the list of invitations to the profile page will close Ticket 347 20 C
40. address resets a password then that address will become verified e The Reply to address of an invitation is now set to the address of the administrator who issued the invitation 63 e Only posting members of an announcement group are shown a link to start a topic 4 e The name of the initial GroupServer instance and GroupServer site have been changed e A coding error with the Members page has been fixed 5 10 5 Get Soft Serve To get Soft Serve go to the Downloads page for GroupServer and follow the GroupServer Installation documentation Those who already have a functioning installation can update an existing GroupServer system 57 Adding the code for blocking a post closed Ticket 459 This enhancement mostly helps Support groups which otherwise lack a way to prevent people from posting 58 There is a long running project to move code from the large Product s eggs to many more smaller gs eggs The move of the Can Post code to gs group member canpost from the old Products GSGroupMember is part of this Moving the code closes Ticket 423 5 Updating the site administration pages closes Ticket 620 6 Updating the site timezone page closes Ticket 662 61 Updating the page that allows a site name to be changed closes Ticket 607 62 Only the simple case of a single address being verified is currently handled Verifying an email address when the password is reset closes Ticket 480 63 Prior to Soft Serve the Reply to address was
41. ake up GroupServer itself come from lt http eggs iopen net groupserver base gt The third party eggs come from lt http eggs iopen net groupserver cache gt This should prove to be more reliable than using the canonical upstream servers Finally there is a new installer the gs_install_ubuntu sh script For an Ubuntu system the new script in stalls the dependencies creates the databases in a secure maner sets up a Python environment and installs all the GroupServer components Minor changes There have been three sets of minor changes to GroupServer in the Faloodeh release Zope events are better supported wsgi is supported and there have been numerous coding improvements An event in Zope is a signal that is raised when an action is carried out 78 You can write code that subscribes to these events and takes additional action This extra code does not need to alter the original code in any way Events are now raised when someone joins a group joins a site leaves a group and leaves a site This should make these actions more extensible and allow others to add extra functionality to GroupServer WSGI is the method that most Python based web applications use to communicate to servers GroupServer can now be served using WSGL as the last problems with WSGI compatibility have been resolved Finally There have been numerous coding improvements Most have centred around the use of caching In addition there are new base clas
42. ased HTML editor that is used to change a biography on the Profile of a member 5 1 5 Share Box The most visible change is to the topics and posts all the Short link links on the topics and posts pages to a JavaScript based share box The share box provides a quick and easy way to share a post or topic on Facebook Twitter or just as a URL 5 2 GroupServer 10 10 Gelato while Viewing the Sights Authors Michael JasonSmith Richard Waid Alice Murphy Dan Randow 2 Administrators being moderated only effects administrators of sites with moderated groups regardless Ticket 235 is closed 3 The alternatives to leaving are shown in an example leave page in the GroupServer Development group 4 Auditing when people join and leave a group closes Ticket 341 5 The GroupServer Development group contains some examples of what the Join and Leave Log looks like to different people Creating the log closes Ticket 341 6 Neither Ticket 420 Ticket 442 or the appearance of the page convey what a monumental task it was to rewrite the Manage Members page It is now a page that can be improved rather than a huge hack 7 It would be best if I kept hacks that used to exist around invitations to myself Invitations now work well closing Ticket 435 8 The fix so the WYMeditor on the Change the Site Introduction page closes Ticket 357 Originally the share box was slated for Pineapple Snow but Richard completed the short link improvements earl
43. ateuser D S R l1 gszodbadmin 3 Create the two databases specified in config cfg using createdb createdb Ttemplate0 0O gsadmin EUTF 8 groupserver createdb Ttemplate0 O gszodbadmin EUTF 8 groupserverzodb 4 Get the Python virtualenv package easy_install virtualenv 5 Set up a virtual Python environment for GroupServer virtualenv no site packages 6 Grab the argparse module bin easy_install argparse 1 1 7 Fetch the system that builds GroupServer bin easy_install zc buildout 1 5 2 8 Run the buildout process bin buildout N 1 5 2 Start Zope Your GroupServer site is supported by Zope To start Zope run the following command bin instance fg Zope will have started when the message Zope Ready to handle requests is displayed in the terminal You should be able to view your GroupServer site at http host zope_port If you kept the defaults the address will be lt http gstest 8080 gt e The host is the one you picked earlier see Pick a Host Name e The port is the one that site listens to see Configure GroupServer Use Cont rol c to stop Zope See also The documentation Starting and stopping GroupServer has more information on running GroupServer including running it as a daemon We document the setup required to receive email with GroupServer in Configuring Postifx Finally the steps required to configure a proxy is docu mented in Configur
44. ature of PostgreSQL closes Feature 224 84 Being able to search for non ASCII characters closes Bug 603 85 Updating the Permission Denied page closes Bug 646 86 Creating the encouragement closes Feature 3501 and Feature 177 87 Creating the closed group closes Feature 449 5 14 GroupServer 12 11 Absinthe Acquired Arbitrarily 47 GroupServer Documentation Release 14 06 2 The group may be finished and the administrator does not want any more posts to be made but he or she still wants the archive available While there is no front end user interface that allows the group type to be changed an administrator can change the type of the group by making a change in the ZMI Profile Search A simple profile search has been added A more complex search system has not been added because the privacy issues are still being resolved SVG Thumbnails GroupServer now correctly displays a thumbnail of an SVG image at the bottom of each post from the list of low hanging fruit where there are other relatively strait forward tasks listed This item was picked 5 14 3 Changes to the Underlying System We have made significant changes to the underlying GroupServer system in the Absinthe release The system will be easier to maintain because of a new configuration system improved email handling and a new authentication system Installation is simpler because relstorage is used by default There have also been some sig
45. be changed after GroupServer has been set up 1 The cfg files are interpreted by the Python ConfigParser module which accepts a syntax very similar to Windows INT files 1 4 Set up 3 GroupServer Documentation Release 14 06 Database storage GroupServer stores most of its data in PostgreSQL Two passwords need to be set by you to protect this data pgsql_password The password required to attach to the PostgreSQL database The install system will create a PostgreSQL database and protect it with this pgsql_password relstorage_password The RelStorage system will store data in a PostgreSQL database for Zope This data is protected by the relstorage_password 1 4 3 Configure PostgreSQL The RelStorage system that is used by GroupServer requires prepared transaction support to be enabled in Post greSQL To enable prepared transaction support carry out the following steps 1 Edit the PostgreSQL configuration file On Ubuntu you must be root to edit this file which is located at etc postgresql 9 1 main postgresql conf 2 Find the line that reads max_prepared_transactions 0 3 Change the line to read max_prepared_transactions 1 4 Restart PostgreSQL On Ubuntu this is done using the following command sudo service postgresql restart 1 5 Run the installer The installer for Ubuntu is a Bash script For CentOS and RHEL you will have to carry out the steps by hand To run the GroupServer installer enter the
46. by GroupServer in response to an event have been given a through update They are now clearer and contain more useful information than before 20 The details of the new group homepage is available in the Group Homepage Rebuild topic in GroupServer Development Deploying the new homepage closes Ticket 426 and a slew of sub tickets 21 Showing a log of the failed attempts to send a message closes e Ticket 15 e Ticket 509 2 Allowing administrators to reissue an invitation closes Ticket 489 2 Updating the notifications closes eight tickets e Ticket 163 Ticket 215 e Ticket 216 e Ticket 221 Ticket 222 Ticket 223 e Ticket 466 Ticket 513 22 Chapter 5 Release notes GroupServer Documentation Release 14 06 5 2 5 New Favicon GroupServer now has a new multi resolution favicon which is shown in the location bar of the browser 5 2 6 New Help System The user manual and administration manuals are out of date and in need of work To help with this a new help system has been introduced It allows for sections of the manuals to be more easily maintained which will hopefully allow for better manuals in the future 5 2 7 Switch to Zope 2 13 Beta GroupServer now runs on the the latest version of Zope 2 The new features in Zope are used for the new group homepage and the new help system 5 3 GroupServer 10 11 Kulfi Craved while Caving Authors Michael JasonSmith Richard Waid Alice Murphy Dan Randow Contact
47. d License by OnlineGroups Net 5 9 GroupServer 11 05 Eskimo Pie with Middle Class Guilt 31 GroupServer Documentation Release 14 06 The main update to GroupServer that is present in the Eskimo Pie release is the new request membership system However there are other minor fixes that have been made You can get Eskimo Pie immediately Work is now starting on GroupServer 11 06 Soft Serve from Mr Whippy 5 9 1 Request Membership The Request Membership system gt allows someone to request membership of a private group The group administra tor is informed of the request by email The administrator can then accept or decline the request using a Web interface Effectively the Request Membership system works like the system that is used to invite people to join groups but in reverse 5 9 2 Minor Fixes Minor fixes in Eskimo Pie include the following e An update to the Start a Group system so the system administrator is made the group administrator gt e When an email address is verified it is made the preferred delivery address if the user has no other preferred delivery addresses gt gt The list of files that are associated with a post are more clearly demarcated from the body of the message Long URLs no longer word wrap in the body of posts e Zope has been updated to 2 3 6 This may cause problems with some configurations as IPv6 support is now present 5 9 3 Get Eskimo Pie To get Eskimo Pie go t
48. d during installation This solves many issues with the email address of the normal group member conflicting with the email address of the site administrator DMARC Support With the Slivovica release of GroupServer messages are more likely to be received by people whose email is provided by hosts that implement strict DMARC With strict DMARC messages are checked to ensure that message was actually sent from the host listed in the From address All mailing lists including GNU Mailman Google Groups and Yahoo Groups modify the message before sending it out and this would cause the DMARC check to fail Like most other mailing lists GroupServer now rewrites the F rom address if the group member uses an email provider that implements strict DMARC The new address includes the name of the sender and the ID of his or her profile see Feature 4108 This ensures that the person who sent the message can still be identified and email message will still get through Incoming SMTP With the Slivovica release of GroupServer email messages are correctly sent to GroupServer when it is running on a non standard port Messages are received by Postfix which then uses the smtp2gs programme to add the message to GroupServer Previously manual intervention was needed if GroupServer was listening to a non standard port Now all components of GroupServer correctly handle the port that is set in the configuration file when GroupServer is first set up This inclu
49. dbname Note that pgsql_user and pgsql_dbname are the database user and database name that was setup during installation Both can be found in the instance cfg file in the installation directory of GroupServer CREATE TABLE user_group_member_request request_id user_id site_id group_id request_date message responding_user_id response_date accepted Update the Packages Carry out the following steps to update the package versions 1 E IS BOO EAN EX PRIMARY EX NOT NUL EX NOT NUL EX NOT NUL IMESTAMP WITH TIME ZON NOT NUL EXT EXT IMESTAMP WITH TIME ZON Download the Eskimo Pie tar ball from the GroupServer download page Uncompress the tar ball KE Copy the file groupserver 11 05 versions cfg to your existing GroupServer installation Copy the file groupserver 11 05 buildout cfg to your existing GroupServer installation In your existing GroupServer installation run bin buildout 5 10 GroupServer 11 06 Soft Serve from Mr Whippy Authors Michael JasonSmith Richard Waid Dan Randow Contact Michael JasonSmith lt mpj17 onlinegroups net gt Date 2011 07 04 Organization GroupServer org Copyright This document is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3 0 New Zealand License by OnlineGroups Net 5 10 1 Introduction The two main updates to GroupServer that
50. des the recipe that creates the alias file for Postfix the smtp2gs script that uploads the email message and the gs form library that smtp2gs uses to connect to GroupServer Minor code improvements Four components have undergone minor updates for Slivovica Add member Fixed an error with the dependencies of the product that added a member to a group Site style Some errors in the CSS have been fixed mbox importing The code that imports mbox files has been updated and it now uses the same core code as the smtp2gs script Starting public groups Public groups are now visible on the homepage of the site as soon as they are started closing Bug 4105 In addition the following general changes have been made to GroupServer Three fundamental products gs core gs dmarc and gs form have been published to PyPI e Sphinx is now used to generate the documentation for gs config gs core gs database gs dmarc gs form and gs group messages add smtp2gs 62 Chapter 5 Release notes GroupServer Documentation Release 14 06 Unit tests have been added to many of the products that make up GroupServer These tests make it more likely that these components that make up GroupServer will work correctly now and in the future Where possible Python 3 support has been added to the products that make up GroupServer The main change has been to switch to Unicode text by default While not all products have been updated many have
51. e New layout based on the layout of OnlineGroups net e Two new color schemes skins 1 Blue based on the E Democracy org Forums 2 Green based on OnlineGroups Net e Fit and finish work to improve the look of GroupServer e Integration of the jQuery UI code into the default CSS Work is now starting on GroupServer 11 01 Baked Alaska with an Eye on the Soviets 5 4 1 Update an Existing GroupServer System To update an existing GroupServer system to Lemon Ice you will have to update the package versions To use the new skins you will have to update the virtual hosting Update the Package Versions Carry out the following steps to update the package versions 1 Download the Lemon Ice tar ball from the GroupServer download page 2 Uncompress the tar ball 3 Copy the file groupserver 10 12 versions cfgto your existing GroupServer installation 4 In your existing GroupServer installation run bin buildout N Update the Virtual Hosting The virtual hosting will need to be updated in order to use the new skins Without the new skins the default black and white color scheme will be shown By default Zope is set up to provide the virtual hosting To change the Zope setup carry out the following 1 Log into the ZMI for your site 2 Select virtual_hosting You should see the page for the Virtual Host Monster 3 Select the Mappings tab You should see a line that starts with the name of your site gstest by default that is follo
52. f required profile attributes but that is about it The invitation message cannot be changed when inviting people in bulk New Members Accepting Invitations The page used to accept invitations has undergone a major rewrite The mechanics enter a password and join stay the same However the biography of the administrator who issued the invitation is now shown as well as some sample statistics about the group New members are now sent a welcome message Hopefully new members will refer to the Welcome message when trying to get back to the group homepage rather than relying on the invitation However if the new member does follow the invitation again he or she will be shown a page that says that the invitation has been accepted and to the group homepage and bookmark it If an invitation is declined it is noted by the system Sadly the unwanted profile is not deleted due to an odd issue with how Zope redirects I plan to implement a system for removing the unwanted profiles but it will have to be a manual process for now All group administrators will now get an email saying that a new member has joined the group declines an invitation then only the person who issued the invitation is informed If someone Existing Members Accepting Invitations The profile page now has a list of invitations on it Clicking on the invitation will go to the Accept Invitations page The page that allows an existing site member to
53. following command gs_install_ubuntu sh You will be prompted for your password This is required to check that your Ubuntu system has met all the require ments Next the installer ensures that the set up is correct The rest of the installation process should be completely automatic The system will create a sandbox for your GroupServer site with its own version of Python placed in bin It will then configure the PostgreSQL databases that store the data for your site Finally it will start the buildout system that will download and install all the require ments for GroupServer around 43MB of packages including e eGenix com mx Base 4 4MB e SQL Alchemy 4 3MB e Ixml 2 8MB e Pillow 2 4MB e Zope 2 13 1 4MB Note You need a functioning network connection to download the packages It is a good idea to make a cup of coffee or go to lunch while buildout processes 4 Chapter 1 GroupServer installation GroupServer Documentation Release 14 06 1 5 1 CentOS and RHEL The process to install GroupServer on CentOS or RedHat Enterprise Linux is manual The basic idea is as follows but it lacks testing Note Commands that have to be run as root are shown on lines that begin with a Commands that must be run as a normal user are shown on lines that begin with a 1 Install the requirements 2 Create the two database users specified in config cfg using createuser createuser D S R l1 gsadmin cre
54. gh AJAX Issue 3873 The list of Files has been moved to the secondary column of the Group page from the main area Responsive The GroupServer web pages are now more responsive to the size of device Issue 3909 This allows the pages to look good from screens found on desktops down to small feature phones This allows people to keep up with conversations anywhere and any time Some pages such as the Image page Issue 3508 have had particular attention to ensure the page works well at multiple sizes Performance The performance Web interface has been massively improved The primary way of doing this has been with refactored JavaScript In addition image compression has been increased and font icons introduced Finally many small changes have been made to the layout of the pages to reduce the time to glass Refactored JavaScript All the JavaScript used by GroupServer has been refactored into separate modules Issue 344 This makes documentation and maintenance far easier at the expense of speed To compensate all JavaScript including that supplied by jQuery and Twitter Bootstrap is deferred until after the paged has been shown In addition all the JavaScript has been minified to reduce the amount of data that is transported and to speed the parsing by the Web browser Finally almost all the JavaScript is asynchronously loaded 101 The product for supplying the profile image content provider is located at lt http
55. hapter 5 Release notes GroupServer Documentation Release 14 06 Copy the file groupserver 12 05 zope2 2 13 13 cfgto your existing GroupServer installation Copy the file yroupserver 12 05 ztk versions 1 0 6 cfg to your existing GroupServer instal lation In your existing GroupServer installation run bin buildout Restart your GroupServer instance Update the Site Marker Interface The site homepage improvements require a modification to the sites in the ZMI before they can be seen To update the sites carry out the following steps 1 2 Ds 6 Log into the ZMI for your GroupServer Installation Navigate to your GroupServer instance in the ZMI called groupserver by default Add a script by selecting Script Python from the Add menu near the top right of the ZMI page e Give the new script the Id add_new_site_homepag e Click the Add and edit button Change the contents of the script to the following mpj17 The new site home page in gs site home works of the single IGSSiteFolder marker As such the old IGSFullPageContentFolder marker from the paragmatic tempalates code is not needed Indeed it gets in the way This code removes the IGSFullPageContentFolder marker interfa a from Products XWFCore XWFUtils import remove_marker_interfaces Se SSH Se site_root context site_root folders Folder Folder Ordered isSite lambda d d getProperty is_division
56. hapter 5 Release notes GroupServer Documentation Release 14 06 Join and Sign Up The Join and Sign Up pages superficially look exactly the same However the code for joining a group is shared with the two Accept Invitations pages so the fixes to notifications are also shared The only specific improvement is a fix to prevent administrators who join moderated groups from being moderated Leave The Leave page now presents some alternative ways of reducing email overload The alternatives are going onto a daily digest of topics or to participate in the group using the web only We hope this will reduce the number of people who leave groups Join and Leave Log People joining and leaving groups is now audited The audit data is then fed into a new Join and Leave Log 5 1 3 Manage Members The Manage Members page looks much the same as it did Those familiar with the page will notice the profile photos and a subtle rewording of the text For example people who have been invited to join the group are now clearly marked as such Underneath the page has undergone a major rewrite thanks to the heroic efforts of Alice The new page now meshes properly with invitations so invites can be withdrawn without causing any problems 5 1 4 Change Site Introduction The page that is used to change the text that appears on the homepage of the site has been updated so it uses the WYMeditor 8 This is the same JavaScript b
57. heir values 2 Run the following command psql U psql_user psql_dbname c ALTER TABLE password_reset ADD COLUMN reset TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE DEFAULT NULL Older installations will also have to update the table used to record invitations psql U psql_user psql_dbname c ALTER TABLE user_group_member_invitation ADD COLUMN initial_invite BOOLEAN DEFAULT FALSE ADD COLUMN withdrawn_date TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE ADD COLUMN withdrawing_user_id TEXT Update the ZODB To get the notification updates into an existing GroupServer system you will have to update the email templates in the ZODB Email lt support onlinegroups net gt or GroupServer Development if you need a hand with this 36 The 1xm1 improvements should resolve the issues that Tom had when installing GroupServer 5 3 GroupServer 10 11 Kulfi Craved while Caving 25 GroupServer Documentation Release 14 06 5 4 GroupServer 10 12 Lemon Ice in the Cool of the Evening Authors Michael JasonSmith Richard Waid Alice Murphy Dan Randow Contact Michael JasonSmith lt mpj17G onlinegroups net gt Date 2010 12 17 Organization GroupServer org Copyright This document is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3 0 New Zealand License by OnlineGroups Net The Lemon Ice release of GroupServer mostly consists of changes to the CSS
58. his should make groups easier to find Work is now starting on GroupServer 11 02 Tartufo Nibbled in Polite Company 5 5 1 Update an Existing GroupServer System Carry out the following steps to update the package versions 1 Download the Baked Alaska tar ball from the GroupServer download page 2 Uncompress the tar ball 3 Copy the file groupserver 11 01 versions cfg to your existing GroupServer installation 4 In your existing GroupServer installation run bin buildout N 5 6 GroupServer 11 02 Tartufo Nibbled in Polite Company Authors Michael JasonSmith Richard Waid Alice Murphy Dan Randow Contact Michael JasonSmith lt mpj17 onlinegroups net gt Date 2011 02 28 5 5 GroupServer 11 01 Baked Alaska with and Eye on the Soviets 27 GroupServer Documentation Release 14 06 Organization GroupServer org Copyright This document is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3 0 New Zealand License by OnlineGroups Net The Tartufo release of GroupServer mostly consists of enhancements so errors are handled better e A new Unexpected Error page provides more detail to the user In addition the pre written message to support contains a full stack trace This information can be used to find and eliminate the error Many errors were generated when non existent pages were accessed These errors have been fixed primarily in the mailing list code This should make problems recorded in the er
59. in is the PostgreSQL user that you set up when installing GroupServer and groupserver is the name of the database 2 Alter the post table to add the full text retrieval FTR or full text search FTS column by executing the following SQL ALTER TABLE post ADD COLUMN fts_vectors tsvector 3 Update the rows of the post table to add the FTR data This may take some time UPDATE post SET fts_vectors to_tsvector english left coalesce subject coalesce body 1048575 4 Create an index for the FTR data This may take some time CREATE INDEX post_fts_vectors ON post USING gin fts_vectors 5 Create an index for the posts sorted by the last post date CREATE INDEX post_last_post_date_idx ON post date DESC 6 Create a trigger to update the FTR data whenever a new post is made CREATE TRIGGER fts_vectors_update BEFORE INSERT or UPDATE ON post FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE tsvector_update_trigger fts_vectors pg_catalog english subject body Topics Because people search topics as well as posts the FTR information needs to be present in both tables 50 Chapter 5 Release notes GroupServer Documentation Release 14 06 1 Add the FTR column to the topic table ALTER TABLE topic ADD COLUMN fts_vectors tsvector 2 Drop the old trigger DROP TRIGG
60. ing a web proxy 1 5 Run the installer 5 GroupServer Documentation Release 14 06 1 6 Remove Groupserver To remove GroupServer you must remove the database the associated database user and the directory that contains the GroupServer install 1 To remove the database run the following commands dropdb gstestdb U postgres dropuser gstest U postgres gstestdb The name of the test database postgres The name of the admin of PostgreSQL gstest The name of the PostgreSQL user 2 Remove the directory that contains the GroupServer install rm r groupserver 14 03 1 7 History Version Date Change 14 06 2014 06 23 Moving the sections for configuring the proxy and Postfix to their own documents 14 03 2014 03 25 Clarifying the Requirements wording 14 03 2014 03 20 Updating to Ouzo 12 11 2012 11 27 Adding the sections CentOS and RHEL and Configure PostgreSQL 12 11 2012 11 19 Adding a link to the Postfix documentation for Ubuntu 12 11 2012 10 25 Removing some odd dependencies 12 05 2012 04 30 Updating the Configure GroupServer and Run the Installer sections 12 05 2012 04 24 Removing unnecessary dependencies and using pip in the Run Buildout section 11 08 2011 12 19 Adding the packages required for XML support and XSLT support on RHEL and CentOS to the list of Req 11 08 2011 12 16 Added the CentOS packages to the list of Requirements with much thanks to Pat
61. ion for the gs_admin and gs_user c 1 00 2010 04 23 Added a link to the downloads page Clarified the security changes that are made to PostgreSQL 1 00 2010 04 06 Fixed some quoting in the requirements 1 00 2010 03 31 Fixed the Requirements added Remove GroupServer and History Conti 6 Chapter 1 GroupServer installation GroupServer Documentation Release 14 06 Table 1 1 continued from previous page Version Date Change 1 00 2010 03 25 Fixed the config options added Quick Start 1 00 2009 10 04 Updated to reflect the new egg based system 1 8 Resources e Code repository https source iopen net groupserver Questions and comments to http groupserver org groups development e Report bugs at https redmine iopen net projects groupserver 1 8 Resources GroupServer Documentation Release 14 06 8 Chapter 1 GroupServer installation CHAPTER 2 Starting and stopping GroupServer Authors Michael JasonSmith Richard Waid Contact Michael JasonSmith lt mpj17 onlinegroups net gt Date 2014 05 27 Organization GroupServer org Copyright This document is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4 0 Interna tional License by OnlineGroups net 2 1 Introduction In this document we present a quick introduction to starting GroupServer First you have to install GroupServer which is covered in the groupserver install txt file in the docs directory of you
62. ions about what the participant should do In addition the mailto that is embedded in the page now includes the URL of the problem page in the body of the email message to the Support address The Unexpected Error 500 page and the Not Found 404 page now work with infrae wsgi for systems that run GroupServer behind a WSGI front end Neither of these error pages redirect to display the error New Help System The old monolithic manuals have been replaced The new more dynamic system will automatically show help for the features that are installed in GroupServer including the custom features Some of the old pages have been retained and updated In Context Administration Guide To help get groups started there is a new system to encourage the group administrator The current advice includes e Start a topic e Invite people e Write some text in the About tab and e Make a group Private rather than Secret Closed Groups Administrators can now close groups There are two reasons for needing to do this 1 The group may be starting and the administrator does not want the members to post until everyone is in the group 80 The Search box that used to appear on every page has now been removed as it is easier to use the Search entry in the Topics tab This closes Bug 3434 81 Searching in posts closes Feature 3497 82 Creating topic keywords that can be clicked closes Feature 878 83 Using the full text retrieval fe
63. is the period that no password is required to access a file making it easier for group members who follow conversations using email to access the files that are posted to the group Notifications Four notifications have been rewritten There are HTML versions of both e The Welcome message which is sent to new group members and e The New Member notification which is sent to the administrator when someone joins a group The Invitation to join a group has undergone a rewrite too along with a new default invitation message from the group administrator Finally the Cannot Post notification has undergone an extensive change along with the rest of the can post system It now has a HTML variant as well as a wording change to hopefully make it easer to understand 71 A sample Welcome message can be viewed at lt http groupserver org groups development new member msg html gt 72 A sample New Member message can be viewed at lt http groupserver org groups development new member admin msg html gt 73 A sample Cannot Post message can be viewed at lt http groupserver org groups development cannot post html gt 40 Chapter 5 Release notes GroupServer Documentation Release 14 06 Can Post The biggest change to groups was a complete rewrite of the system that determines if a user can post This system is used to e Send an email to someone who tries to post but is disallowed and e To tell someone using the web why
64. ite groups and finally initial_group 2 2 3 Access your site If you can access the ZMI without any problems then the next thing to test is if you can access your site If you have configured DNS or your local host file correctly you should be able to access your site at http S host port host The name of the GroupServer host that you set in the config cfg file port The port that GroupServer is listening to that you set in the config cfg file If you left the defaults unaltered then the URL for your GroupServer site will be lt http gstest 8080 gt Log in Log in as an administrator by clicking the Sign in link and entering the admin_email and admin_password you set in the config cfg file 2 2 4 Stop the test To stop testing type Cont rol c in the terminal where GroupServer is running 2 3 Running GroupServer Running GroupServer on a more permanent basis requires starting the Zope instance as a demon To do this run the following command from the GroupServer installation directory bin instance start To stop the Zope instance run the following command bin instance stop 2 4 Issues and problems Should something go wrong there is a log files are written to the var log directory within the GroupServer directory You can ask questions and make comments in the GroupServer Development group or in the gsdevel IRC channel on Freenode 10 Chapter 2 Starting and stopping GroupServer GroupServer
65. ith and Eye on the Soviets o 27 5 6 GroupServer 11 02 Tartufo Nibbled in Polite Company o o 27 5 7 GroupServer 11 03 Pineapple Snow ata Child s Party o o 28 5 8 GroupServer 11 04 Slushy Followed by a Pounding Headache 29 5 9 GroupServer 11 05 Eskimo Pie with Middle Class Guilt o a 31 5 10 GroupServer 11 06 Soft Serve from Mr Whippy 2 200050 be 33 5 11 GroupServer 11 07 Frozen Yoghurt Accompanied by Carols o oo 35 5 12 GroupServer 11 08 Banana Split Eaten in a Comfortable Silence 38 5 13 GroupServer 12 05 Faloodeh Consumed with an Eye on History 39 5 14 GroupServer 12 11 Absinthe Acquired Arbitrarily o o 45 5 15 GroupServer 14 03 Ouzo utilised as an unguent e e 5 16 GroupServer 14 06 Slivovica shots atsunset 2 2 2 20 000 eee eee 6 Indices and tables CHAPTER 1 GroupServer installation Authors Michael JasonSmith Richard Waid Marek Kuziel Alice Murphy Dan Randow Contact Michael JasonSmith lt mpj17 onlinegroups net gt Date 2014 06 23 see History Organization GroupServer org Copyright This document is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4 0 Interna tional License by OnlineGroups net We wrote this documentation f
66. ition of email addresses which helps distinguish between people with similar names Issue 452 Notifications update Most of the notifications in GroupServer have been updated in Ouzo Issue 3892 Premailer is now used to embed CSS into the HTML formatted messages The CSS itself is specified using a system of skins that is very similar to what is used for the Web pages and the default look is very similar to the Web user interface Almost all the notifications have been moved to the file system rather than requiring templates in the ZMI Issue 269 and the use of the new notifications is now far more consistent than before Topic digests The system for producing the topic digests has been completely rewritten Issue 408 The digest email is provided in both HTML and plain text formats In addition the code for sending the digests has been rewritten so it uses 107 The code for determining how images should be displayed is provided by lt https source iopen net groupserver gs image gt 108 The code for inviting people by uploading a CSV file is provided by lt https source iopen net groupserver gs group member invite csv gt 109 The code for adding people by uploading a CSV file is provided by lt https source iopen net groupserver gs group member add csv gt 110 The code for inviting someone by JSON is provided by lt https source iopen net groupserver gs group member invite json gt 111 The code fo
67. lower layer group_properties for p in group_object propertyltems group_properties p 0 p 1 group_properties id group_object getId try group_properties division_id site aq_explicit getId group_properties division_title site aq_explicit title except group_properties division_id group_properties division_title group_properties canonical_host group_object Scripts get option canonicalHost divConfig site DivisionConfiguration group_properties canonical_host divConfig getProperty canonicalHost try from_addr context parseaddr mail get from 1 except from_addr ll if from_addr user context acl_users get_userByEmail from_addr else user None files try storage context FileLibrary2 get_fileStorage for file_id in file ids file storage get_file file_id if file files append file except pass Get the virtual file folder files from the group 5 14 GroupServer 12 11 Absinthe Acquired Arbitrarily 55 GroupServer Documentation Release 14 06 Get the public_access _ period from files pap int getattr group_object files public_access_period 0 Turn the public_access_period to a Boolean pap_set bool pap Pass the Boolean to the email_footer template mailto getValueFor mailto return context email_foo
68. nd the MX record to also point at your new site 15 GroupServer Documentation Release 14 06 Visit the folder groupserver Content initial_site Open the DivisionConfiguration Set the canonicalHost to the domain for your new site Set the canonicalPort to 80 E ee UN Click the Save Changes button 4 2 2 Add a virtual host to Apache To add a virtual host to Apache carry out the following steps 1 Ensure the rewrite proxy and proxy_httpd modules are enabled in Apache a2enmod rewrite proxy proxy_http service apache2 restart 2 Open etc apache2 sites available groupserver in a text editor 3 Add the following to the file lt VirtualHost 80 gt ServerAdmin support example com ServerName groups example com RewriteEngine on RewriteRule http localhost 8080 groupserver Content initial_site VirtualHostBase httep ProxyVia On ErrorLog APACHE_LOG_DIR error log Possible values include debug info notice warn error crit alert emerg LogLevel info CustomLog APACHE_LOG_DIR access log combined lt VirtualHost gt e Change the address for the site from groups example com to that of you new virtual host e Change the email address for ServerAdmin from support example com to the value of the support_email in the config cfg file in the GroupServer directory 4 Link the configuration for your host cd etc apache2 sites enabled ln s groupserver 100
69. nificant performance improvements Developers will notice the SQLAlchemy update and a more flexible group page The changes to the underlying system have been so extensive that we have decided to change the naming scheme for the GroupServer releases The new releases belong to the Awesome Aperitifs series Hence this Absinthe Acquired Arbitrarily release Internally the eggs in this series are given the version 2 0 which you can see by looking at the versions cfg file in the build directory The version number of the release will continue to use the month day format The old series was known as Frozen Treats Faloodeh Consumed with an Eye on History was the aptly named last release in that series Eggs in the Frozen Treats series were given the 1 0 version Configuration System Administration is now simpler especially for production systems as the configuration for important parts of GroupServer are now in a file that is external to the ZODB The new configuration system handles the database the improved email handling and the new authentication system It is based on a INI file located in parts instance gsconfig ini Improved Email Handling The email handling subsystem of GroupServer has been completely rewritten Changes have been made to both the handling of outgoing mail and incoming mail The setup for the outgoing SMTP system has moved from the ZODB accessed through the ZMD to an INI file thanks to the new configuration sy
70. ns of Absinthe 5 14 2 Changes Visible to Participants The most visible change for the participants is a new search system Some better error pages have also been created To help participants and administrators there is a new help system while an in context administration guide will help administrators get their new group going more easily Administrators now have the ability to create closed groups and the new profile search will help administrators find the profiles of participants Finally SVG thumbnails are now shown New Search System The new search system is the most visible change in Absinthe 46 Chapter 5 Release notes GroupServer Documentation Release 14 06 e The Topics tab on both the site homepage and the group page have a Search entry e The Posts tab in a group has as Search entry also allowing posts to be searched e Clicking a topic keyword will search for other topics with that keyword e Searching now uses stems searching for search will match topics that contain the words searches searching or searched for example e Searching is faster as the full text retrieval features of PostgreSQL are used e The display of topics in a site or group is much faster as the keywords are now generated when someone posts rather than when the topic is loaded e Searching using non ASCII characters now works Better Error Pages The Permission Denied page has been improved to add some suggest
71. o tar ball from the GroupServer download page 2 Uncompress the tar ball tar cfz groupserver 14 03 tar gz 3 Change to the directory that contains your existing GroupServer installation 4 Make a backup of your custom configuration 116 The Start a topic page is provided by lt https source iopen net groupserver gs group messages starttopic gt 117 The toggle to show or hide a password is provided by lt https source iopen net groupserver gs profile password gt 60 Chapter 5 Release notes GroupServer Documentation Release 14 06 cp custom cfg custom bk cfg cp config cfg config bk cfg 5 Copy the new configuration files to your existing GroupServer installation cp groupserver 14 03 cfg 6 Restore your custom configuration mv custom bk cfg custom cfg mv config bk cfg config cfg 7 In your existing GroupServer installation run bin buildout n 8 Restart your GroupServer instance 5 15 4 Resources e Code repository https source iopen net groupserver e Questions and comments to http groupserver org groups development e Report bugs at https redmine iopen net projects groupserver 5 16 GroupServer 14 06 Slivovica shots at sunset Authors Michael JasonSmith Contact Michael JasonSmith lt mpj17 onlinegroups net gt Date 2014 06 03 Organization GroupServer org Copyright This document is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4 0 Interna tional
72. o the Downloads page for GroupServer and follow the GroupServer Installation documentation Those who already have a functioning installation can update an existing GroupServer system Update an Existing GroupServer System To upgrade an existing GroupServer system to Eskimo Pie you must first update the database and then update the packages Update the Database The Request Membership update requires the creation of a new table to record information about membership requests To update the database carry out the following steps 1 Log into the PostgreSQL database used GroupServer by using the following command 51 Adding the Request Membership system finally closes Ticket 49 More information in the Request Membership system can be found in the Request Membership topic 52 Setting the group administrator when the group is started closes Ticket 611 53 Setting the verified address as the preferred delivery address closes Ticket 661 54 Enhancing the file notification area closes Ticket 664 55 Fixing the URLs so the do not break over multiple lines closes Ticket 671 56 Updating to Zope 2 3 6 is something I am sure to regret because it has the potential to make GroupServer installation even more tricky than before However it is done and I have closed Ticket 672 32 Chapter 5 Release notes GroupServer Documentation Release 14 06 2 Run the following SQL to create the request membership table psql Upgsql_user pgsql_
73. or people with moderate experience in Linux system administration Installation can be tricky you have to configure at least email sending the web interface and persistent storage All these systems must work or installation will fail If you get stuck please ask us questions in GroupServer Development Other more detailed guides would be gratefully accepted 1 1 nn A W 8 Note GroupServer is developed on Ubuntu and is know to run on CentOS We will gladly accept any modifications you have that will make GroupServer run on more platforms Quick start Install the required packages see Requirements Download the latest version of GroupServer from lt http groupserver org downloads gt and extract the archive see Download Create a new hostname for your GroupServer site Yes you will need a new one see Pick a Host Name Edit config cfg see Configure GroupServer Enable prepared transaction support in PostgreSQL see Configure PostgreSQL Run the following see Run the Installer gs_install_ubuntu sh Start Zope bin instance fg Visit your new site You can remove GroupServer in three steps GroupServer Documentation Release 14 06 1 2 Requirements The installation script for Ubuntu will install all the libraries listed below see Run the Installer The packages that are required to install GroupServer are listed for Ubuntu CentOS and RedHat Enterprise Linux
74. ource iopen net groupserver gs site home gt 5 15 GroupServer 14 03 Ouzo utilised as an unguent 57 GroupServer Documentation Release 14 06 Multiple resolutions The profile images in releases of GroupServer prior to Ouzo were restricted to 81x108 pixels Now the content provider is able to supply profile images at a range of resolutions Issue 588 In addition the image compression enhancements have also been rolled out to the profile image so small images are now directly embedded into the page Square The profile images are now square by default These square images are shown in more places such as in the new Recently active list on the Group page Issue 3873 the Profile link at the top of every page and the Post message area of the Topic and Start topic pages Updated lists At its core GroupServer provides lists of things groups topics posts files and people All these lists have been updated to improve the hierarchy of information e The Groups list on the Site page now lists all the visible groups making the Groups page redundant Issue 3449 e The Files icons for a topic are no longer shown by default Instead a single attachment icon is shown and icons for the files are displayed in a tooltip e Who made the most recent post and when is more prominently displayed e The topic keywords are labelled Keywords e There is a new list of Recently active members on the Group page which is loaded throu
75. pic page and Post page have been updated to move the metadata such as who posted the message and when to the left of the post Issue 3455 The Image page which displays an image that has been posted to a group has been updated to reflect the layout of the Topic page Problems with SVG images have also been resolved Issue 3663 Most of the other pages have been updated to take Twitter Bootstrap and the new navigation into account Twitter Bootstrap The GroupServer user interface is now based on Twitter Bootstrap 2 3 The look of every single page has changed significantly as a consequence The tabs on the Group page and Site page have dropped the use of Query Ul tabs in favour of the Bootstrap Tabs The Popover class is used to show information including the privacy of a group and posts encouragement for the new administrator and the Share widget Profile images Another major change has been with the profile images They are now shown in more places and at multiple reso lutions In addition most of the images are square If a group member has not set an image a missing profile image image is shown 98 The product for supplying the CSS is located at lt https source iopen net groupserver gs content js bootstrap gt 99 The code responsible for laying out the Group page is provided by lt https source iopen net groupserver gs group home gt 100 The code responsible for laying out the Site homepage is provided by lt https s
76. r run the Installer to install the system and finally start Zope 1 4 1 Pick a host name Your new site needs its own hostname The name needs to be known to the web browser that you will use to access the site It will pass the name to the Zope system that runs GroupServer Zope can serve multiple sites as well as its web based management system For a trial system the name can be set up in the hosts 5 file 1 Edit etc hosts as root 2 Chapter 1 GroupServer installation GroupServer Documentation Release 14 06 2 Add the new host name to the localhost entry which is normally the first one For example to add the name gstest change the line to the following 127 0 0 1 localhost gstest 3 Save the host s file 1 4 2 Configure GroupServer The configuration of GroupServer is mostly carried out by modifying the config cfg file which is located in the root of the GroupServer folder First you must configure the GroupServer Site itself Next the Zope system which will run your GroupServer site needs to be configured before the database storage GroupServer site You will need to check all the configuration for your initial site host The domain name used by your new GroupServer instance It must be the same as what you picked a host name earlier see Pick a Host Name port The port that your new GroupServer instance will run on By default 1t is 8080 which is the same as the zope_port see Zope below To r
77. r GroupServer folder or online Here we will cover trying out GroupServer and running GroupServer Finally we try and deal with some issues and problems 2 2 Trying out GroupServer The first time you fire up GroupServer it is reassuring to see all the debugging information in case there is an error 2 2 1 Starting GroupServer for the first time Once GroupServer has been installed you should be able to start it with the command in the GroupServer installation directory bin instance fg This starts the Zope instance which runs GroupServer in foreground mode 2 2 2 Access the ZMI Generally most configuration can be done from the Web interface of GroupServer However the Zope Management Interface can be used to perform some low level tasks and accessing it is a good indication that everything is working correctly The ZMI is accessed by visiting http zope_host zope_port manage GroupServer Documentation Release 14 06 zope_host The name of the Zope host that you set in the config cfg file zope_ port The port of the Zope host that you set in the config cfg file If the defaults are unaltered then the URL for the ZMI will be lt http localhost 8080 manage gt If all is well you will be prompted for a user name and password These will be the zope_admin and zope_password that you set in the config cfg In the ZMI you should see a groupserver folder Within that a Contents folder leading to an initial_s
78. r adding someone by JSON is provided by lt https source iopen net groupserver gs group member add json gt 112 The code for specifying the CSS for the HTML formatted notifications is provided by lt https source iopen net groupserver gs content email css gt 113 The code for specifying the layout of the messages is provided by lt https source iopen net groupserver gs content email layout gt 114 The system for generating the topic digests is provided by lt https source iopen net groupserver gs group messages topicsdigest gt 115 The system for sending the topic digests is provided by lt https source iopen net groupserver gs group messages senddigest gt 5 15 GroupServer 14 03 Ouzo utilised as an unguent 59 GroupServer Documentation Release 14 06 less memory and is more secure Issue 3415 and Issue 3417 Other updates As well as the major rewrite of the user interface a number of smaller changes have been made with the Ouzo release that makes GroupServer more useful more usable and easier to maintain Autocomplete with Start a topic The Start a topic page now has type ahead provided by Twitter Bootstrap that suggests the names of existing topics in the group Issue 282 Show password All password entries for login and setting a password now have a toggle to allow a group member to hide his or her password in public places Issue 519 Attachment detection The code for determining the attachments
79. r is free to write any HTML The W Y Meditor is used to edit the contents of the tab 5 3 5 Management of a Group Member A group administrator is now shown a Manage Member link when viewing the profile of a member This should make managing members even easier than before 5 3 6 Set Password The code used to set and reset passwords has been updated Members will be shown better error messages when they follow password reset links multiple times In addition all the Set Password pages have been updated to use a single text entry rather than two password entries 5 3 7 Notification Updates Some notifications that are stored in the ZMI have been updated In addition better feedback is given for those who fail to change the group delivery settings by email 28 Creating a new email settings page closes Ticket 371 2 Simplifying the process used to start a group closes Ticket 304 30 Creating the About Tab closes Ticket 493 31 GroupServer uses the excellent WYMeditor as its HTML editor Pages that use the editor include Change Profile Change Site Introduction and all pages that are editable with the Content Manager such as About and Policies 32 Creating a link from the profile page to the manage member page closes Ticket 515 33 Knowing when a password has been reset closes Ticket 326 34 Why text entries are used to set passwords is explained in this blog post 35 The clean up to notifications closes three tickets 1
80. rick Leckey 11 08 2011 11 15 Altering the requirements to switch the build essential dependency to make on the advice of David 11 08 2011 10 27 Adding the Download section and clarifying some more of the documentation 11 08 2011 10 26 Correcting some mistakes and clarifying the documentation on the advice of Ross Chesley 11 08 2011 09 01 Reordering the subsections of Configure Zope 11 07 2011 07 08 Adding the build essential depenency and the cut n paste apt get block to the Requirements 11 06 2011 07 05 Adding the prologue 11 06 2011 07 04 Updating the notes because of a change to the name of the initial GroupServer instance 11 06 2011 06 17 Added postfix configuration and spooling notes 11 05 2011 05 26 Fixed a typing mistake and mentioned that the pgsql_dbname and pgsql_user had to be different 10 09 2010 09 01 Changed how the configuration options are set 1 082 2010 07 15 Improved the buildout instructions 1 082 2010 07 07 Changed the Zope 2 10 Python 2 4 instructions to Zope 2 13 Python 2 6 instructions 1 08 2010 06 04 Removed a duplicated instruction from the Quick Start and bumped the version number 1 00 2010 05 31 Typo and minor improvement fixes 1 00 2010 05 01 Fixes because upstream broke our buildout 1 00 2010 04 29 Better automatic configuration so the Configure GroupServer section has been removed 1 0a 2010 04 28 Improved the documentation for gs_port and added documentat
81. ror log maintained by Zope easier to find as there should be fewer items in the log Changes to email addresses are now better recorded This should help diagnose problems better if there is an error subsequent to an address changing The Query code shipped with GroupServer has been updated to the latest stable version 1 4 4 The code that generates the image post and topic pages has been refactored This should make those pages easier to maintain Work is now starting on GroupServer 11 03 Pineapple Snow at a Child s Party 5 6 1 Update an Existing GroupServer System Carry out the following steps to update the package versions 1 Download the Tartufo tar ball from the GroupServer download page 2 Uncompress the tar ball 3 Copy the file groupserver 11 02 versions cfg to your existing GroupServer installation 4 In your existing GroupServer installation run bin buildout N 5 7 GroupServer 11 03 Pineapple Snow at a Child s Party Authors Michael JasonSmith Richard Waid Alice Murphy Dan Randow Contact Michael JasonSmith lt mpj17 onlinegroups net gt Date 2011 03 29 Organization GroupServer org Copyright This document is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3 0 New Zealand License by OnlineGroups Net The Pineapple Snow release of GroupServer contains four main enhancements and corrections e There is an Updated Change Email Settings Page e Searching will now search the
82. roupServer system Update an Existing GroupServer System Carry out the following steps to update the package versions 1 Download the Pineapple Snow tar ball from the GroupServer download page 2 Uncompress the tar ball 3 Copy the file groupserver 11 03 versions cfg to your existing GroupServer installation 4 In your existing GroupServer installation run bin buildout N 5 8 GroupServer 11 04 Slushy Followed by a Pounding Headache Authors Michael JasonSmith Richard Waid Dan Randow Contact Michael JasonSmith lt mpj17 onlinegroups net gt Date 2011 04 29 Organization GroupServer org Copyright This document is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3 0 New Zealand License by OnlineGroups Net 4 The Edit this page link is only shown to the Anonymous user if logged in members can edit the page Showing this link closes Ticket 384 2 The Accept Invitiation was hit by a CSS error Fixing the error closes Ticket 618 and fixes a related error on other pages with radio buttons and check buttons The redesign of the Change Email Settings page closes Ticket 478 and Ticket 472 The topic in GroupServer Development details the new design 4 Automatically updating the Change Email Settings page when an address is verified closes Ticket 276 45 The new Change Email Settings page uses the sortable widgets and the dialog widget from jQuery UI 5 8 GroupServer 11 04 Slushy Followed by a Pounding Headache
83. s source iopen net groupserver gs profile image base gt 102 The product for supplying the square profile image is located at lt https source iopen net groupserver gs profile image square gt 103 The product for supplying the jQuery JavaScript is located at lt https source iopen net groupserver gs content js jquery base gt 104 The product for supplying the Twitter Bootstrap code is located at lt https source iopen net groupserver gs content js bootstrap gt 105 The product for determining what JavaScript is loaded and how is provided by lt https source iopen net groupserver gs content layout gt 106 The code for asynchronously loading the JavaScript is provided by lt https source iopen net groupserver gs content js loader gt 58 Chapter 5 Release notes GroupServer Documentation Release 14 06 The JavaScript code loads and assists with navigating the lists of recent topics posts and files This code has been refactored so the all the lists share the same code Issue 3507 In addition the lists are only loaded when the corre sponding tab is visible Combined this greatly reduces the number of requests required to load the page Strict mode has been enabled for all the core JavaScript modules and some of the other modules This has the combined effect of reducing the number of errors and improving performance by allowing the browser to optimise the code Image compression Many JPEG images that are posted by group member
84. s have very low compression or very high quality depending how you like to look at 1t GroupServer now produces thumbnails with aggressive compression by default Issue 663 As the dimensions of the image are reduced the quality of the image is also dropped making the images far smaller 1 When images are particularly small a data URI is used to directly embed the image into the page reducing the need to make an HTTP request to fetch the image Fonticons The new user interface uses a font to provide the different icons in the interface Issue 3788 These are quick to load and render In addition they are independent of the resolution of the device so work well in the new responsive user interface Adding people The system for adding people to a group has undergone many improvements primarily to the pages that allow the new member details to be uploaded by CSV but also to the system that allows existing site members to be invited to join a group The systems for inviting people in bulk and adding people in bulk using a CSV file have been completely rewritten Issue 3494 Both systems now use AJAX and JSON to parse the CSV file and invite or add individual people This combined with widgets provided by Twitter Bootstrap allows for continual progress updates avoids server timeouts and is massively more usable On a more minor note the page for inviting site members to join a group has been enhanced with the add
85. ses for pages and viewlets with GroupServer sites profiles and groups 5 13 3 Get Faloodeh To get Faloodeh go to the Downloads page for GroupServer and follow the GroupServer Installation documentation Those who already have a functioning installation can update an existing GroupServer system Update an Existing GroupServer System The update an existing GroupServer system to Faloodeh requires you to first update the packages Then there are two tasks to be carried out in the ZMI first update the site marker interface and then the complex task to update the group marker interface Update the Packages To update the packages carry out the following steps 1 Download the Faloodeh tar ball from the GroupServer download page 2 Uncompress the tar ball 3 Copy the file groupserver 12 05 update versions cfg to your existing GroupServer installation under the name versions cfg 4 Copy the file groupserver 12 05 update buildout cfg to your existing GroupServer installation under the name buildout cfg 77 Two other libraries 1ibxm12 and 1ibxs1t are brought into the system by a small script which is part of the buildout process The global libraries are used but they must be symbolically linked symlinked because the virtualenv system does not link to them 78 The Zope events are provided by the ZTK documentation 79 The site member product provides an example of code that both subscribes to an event and raises an event 42 C
86. sonSmith Fabien Hespul Contact Michael JasonSmith lt mpj17 onlinegroups net gt Date 2014 06 23 Organization GroupServer org Copyright This document is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4 0 Interna tional License by OnlineGroups net 4 1 Introduction While GroupServer can run as a stand alone web server it is highly recommended that a proxy is used when making the site available to the public to provide the following services e To mediate between the low level HTTP port port 80 and the high port that Zope runs on normally port 8080 e To rewrite the URL to include a skin directive e To rewrite the URL to support virtual hosting e To provide caching In this document we explain how to add a virtual host to either Apache or nginx Then we explain how to change the skin 4 2 Add a virtual host If you have a new domain that you want to use with your GroupServer installation first you must update the GroupServer configuration and then add a virtual host to Apache or Add a virtual host to nginx 4 2 1 Update the GroupServer configuration If you used a host such as gstest to try out GroupServer then you will need to update the configuration for GroupServer itself 1 Visit the ZMI for your site Log in if necessary 1 Acquiring and configuring a new domain is out of the scope for this documentation However you want the A record for your new domain to point to the IP of your GroupServer site a
87. stem Documentation for the new outgoing SMTP system can be found in the README for the gs email product 88 The issue for creating a selectable group type is Feature 702 89 The creation of a basic profile search closes Feature 3486 2 Handling SVG Thumbnails closes Bug 635 21 Moving the SMTP configuration to an INI file means that the two MailHost instances from the ZODB can be removed which closes Bug 365 48 Chapter 5 Release notes GroupServer Documentation Release 14 06 The script that is used to add email messages to a group the incoming SMTP system has been rewritten It is now easier to use better documented and works Documentation for the new script can be found by running bin smtp2gs h or reading the README for the gs group messages add smtp2gs product New Authentication System A new authentication system has been created for the server side scripts These scripts such as the those involved in the improved email handling now pass a token to the server when they carry out tasks This eliminates the need to store the password of the administrator in various plain text files Relstorage By default the Relstorage product is now used to store the ZODB This system stores the pickled objects in a relational database rather than in the file system The PostgreSQL database is used by GroupServer This allows greater scalability without the need to separately install Zope Enterprise Objects ZEO
88. sting GroupServer installation In your existing GroupServer installation run bin buildout Update the ZMI The update to the site administration pages requires an instance to be deleted from the Zope Management Interface ZMT before it will work To delete the instance carry out to the following tasks 1 a A WwW Start GroupServer bin instance fg View the ZMI If you did not change the defaults the ZMI can be accessed from lt http localhost 8080 manage gt Enter the user name and password of the ZMI administrator Visit the ZMI page for the Example Site This should be under example Content example_site Select the check box next to admindivision Administer Site 6 Click the Delete button The adminidivision instance should be deleted After deleting the admindivision instance you should be able to view the new site administration pages To view these pages you must view the homepage for your site and click on the link to administer the site 5 10 6 Footnotes 5 11 GroupServer 11 07 Frozen Yoghurt Accompanied by Carols Authors Michael JasonSmith Richard Waid Dan Randow Contact Michael JasonSmith lt mpj17 onlinegroups net gt Date 2011 07 28 Organization GroupServer org Copyright This document is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3 0 New Zealand License by OnlineGroups Net 5 11 GroupServer 11 07 Frozen Yoghurt Accompanied by Carols 35
89. ter REQUEST list_object list_object group_properties group_properties getValueFor getValueFor title title mailto mailto mail mail body body user_object user from_addr from_addr files files post_id post_id pap_set pap_set 9 Click the Save Changes button 5 14 5 Resources e Code repository https source iopen net groupserver e Questions and comments to http groupserver org groups development e Report bugs at https redmine iopen net projects groupserver 5 15 GroupServer 14 03 Ouzo utilised as an unguent Authors Michael JasonSmith Bill Bushey Dan Randow Contact Michael JasonSmith lt mpj17 onlinegroups net gt Date 2014 03 20 Organization GroupServer org Copyright This document is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4 0 Interna tional License by OnlineGroups net 5 15 1 Introduction It has been seventeen months since the last release of GroupServer Absinthe 12 11 The major delay was caused by the creation of a new user interface for GroupServer Almost all the changes to GroupServer are user visible and include a new notifications and updated systems for adding people You can get Ouzo immediately 5 15 2 Changes to GroupServer The most significant change to GroupServer in the Ouzo release is the new style pages In addition the system for adding people in bulk has been completely rewritten there has been an extensive notifications update and other updates 56
90. the following from Products XWFCore XWFUtils import remove_marker_interfaces add_marker_interfaces site_root context site_root folders Folder Folder Ordered ignore isSite lambda d d getProperty is_division False and hasattr d groups contentFolders site_root Content objectValues folders sites s for s in contentFolders if s getId not in ignore and isSite s groups isGroup lambda g g getProperty is_group False for site in sites groupsFolder getattr site groups groups filter isGroup groupsFolder objectValues folders oldInterfaces Products XWFChat interfaces IGSGroupFolder newInterfaces gs group type discussion interfaces IGSDiscussionGroup for group in groups print Remove the XWFChat marker from s s group title_or_id group getId remove_marker_interfaces group oldInterfaces add_marker_interfaces group newInterfaces return printed 5 Click the Save Changes button 6 Click the Test tab The marker interfaces for all the groups should be updated to discussion groups 7 Change the support groups to the correct marker interface by carrying out the following for each group a Navigate to the group b Click on the Interfaces tab c Select gs group type discussion interfaces IGSDiscussionGroup in the Provided Interfaces list d Click the Remove button The discussion
91. to add the App ID and App Secret to the options table INSERT INTO option VALUES gs profile signup facebook app_id NULL NULL App ID di INSERT INTO option VALUES gs profile signup facebook app_secret NULL NULL App Secret Y Note the App ID and App Secret in the above SQL are the values provided by Facebook Both values will need to be in quotes Once the data is in the opt ions table the Sign Up page will automatically show the option to sign up using Facebook 5 12 3 Get Banana Split To get Banana Split go to the Downloads page for GroupServer and follow the GroupServer Installation documenta tion Those who already have a functioning installation can update an existing GroupServer system Update an Existing GroupServer System To update an existing GroupServer system to Banana Split carry out the following steps 1 RN AeA WwW N Download the Banana Split tar ball from the GroupServer download page Uncompress the tar ball Copy the file groupserver 11 08 versions cfg to your existing GroupServer installation Copy the file groupserver 11 08 buildout cfg to your existing GroupServer installation In your existing GroupServer installation run bin buildout 5 13 GroupServer 12 05 Faloodeh Consumed with an Eye on His tory Authors Michael JasonSmith Richard Waid Dan Randow 5 13 GroupServer 12 05 Faloodeh Consumed with an Eye on History 3
92. to plain text has been updated The updated code uses the standard Python HTML Parser library to parse the message and also handles URLs better 5 11 4 Minor Fixes Minor fixes in Frozen Yoghurt include the following e The position of the Sticky form in a topic has been moved so it is visible when there is only one post e Files that are part of hidden posts are hidden from the index of files at the top of the topic Files that were part of hidden posts were never able to be viewed e A new configuration system for GroupServer is present but not used The gs option product is part of an ongoing effort to move more data out of the ZODB and into the PostgreSQL relational database The README in the base of the gs option product has more details An error with the Can Post code was fixed 67 The new mobile CSS closes Ticket 444 More information on the mobile stylesheet can be found in the topic in GroupServer Development 68 Updating the converter closes Ticket 596 Fixing the position of the Sticky form in a topic closes Ticket 705 70 Hiding posts that are part of hidden files closes Ticket 692 36 Chapter 5 Release notes GroupServer Documentation Release 14 06 e The word Home has been dropped from the group page as it added nothing and took up valuable space which was especially noticeable with the new stylesheet 5 11 5 Get Frozen Yoghurt To get Frozen Yoghurt go to the Downloads
93. uct can be skinned easily Extra components can be easily added to it in the future Easier Installation Installation should be more reliable for three reasons The first is a change of dependencies The second reason is a more tightly constrained set of software sources Finally there is a new installation script Three dependencies have changed 1 The least dramatic is to use Pillow rather than PIL The former is a friendly fork of the latter which works with the easy_install system that GroupServer uses This change removes the requirement to download and install both zlib and libjpeg The zlib dependency in particular was a problem with its frequent changes 2 The eGenex mx Extension Series is now available as an egg which we now use 74 The Can Post system now produces a Rules List that shows the rules that are checked whenever someone posts to the group Example lists can be seen for the GroupSever Development group and the GroupServer Announcement Group 75 The documentation for how to write a notification is in the product 76 The documentation for how to add components to the new site homepage is in the site homepage product 5 13 GroupServer 12 05 Faloodeh Consumed with an Eye on History 41 GroupServer Documentation Release 14 06 3 Finally the PyXML library is also provided by an egg By default the eggs used by the GroupServer installation process now come from only two sources The eggs that m
94. un on any other port you will need to set up a web proxy admin_email When GroupServer is installed an example site and group are created So you can use the admin istration functions you must log in as an administrator This is the email address of that administrator Posts to the example group will be sent to the administrator at this address This email address must work admin password The password of the administrator of the new GroupServer site The password will be used to log in and can be changed after the site has been created support_email The email address where support messages are sent and were email notifications are send from For testing this can be set to your own email address smtp_host The SMTP host that will be used to send notifications from GroupServer It defaults to localhost assuming you will be running a local SMTP server Zope Your site will run on the Zope system This system must also be configured The default values for zope_host and zope_port are probably correct However for security we recommend you change the name and password of the Zope administrator zope_host The host that will run Zope It defaults to the local machine zope_port The IP port that Zope will listen to It defaults to 8080 Zope will have to run as root to use port 80 and this is discouraged zope_admin The name of the user who will administer Zope zope_ password The password for the Zope administrator It can and should
95. wed path to the site example Content example_site 26 Chapter 5 Release notes GroupServer Documentation Release 14 06 4 Add skin gs_blue to the end of the path for the blue skin Alternatively add skin gs_green for the green skin 5 Click the Save Changes button 6 Visit the homepage your site lt http gstest gt by default 7 Reload the page You may need to hold down Shift when clicking the Reload button to ensure you reload the CSS 5 5 GroupServer 11 01 Baked Alaska with and Eye on the Soviets Authors Michael JasonSmith Richard Waid Alice Murphy Dan Randow Contact Michael JasonSmith lt mpj17 onlinegroups net gt Date 2011 01 31 Organization GroupServer org Copyright This document is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3 0 New Zealand License by OnlineGroups Net The Baked Alaska release of GroupServer mostly consists of changes to the email verification system e Error handling is improved Following an old verification link will show a suggestion to view your profile rather than an Unexpected Error page In addition the corner cases of a missing verification ID and broken ID are handled e The Verification page now more closely conforms to Web standards e The verification code gs profile email verify is now easier to understand and extend In addition the site homepage has been modified Now the groups and profile image of a logged in user are shown T
96. y on the request of a client closing Ticket 378 5 2 GroupServer 10 10 Gelato while Viewing the Sights 21 GroupServer Documentation Release 14 06 Contact Michael JasonSmith lt mpj17 onlinegroups net gt Date 2010 10 26 Organization GroupServer org Copyright This document is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3 0 New Zealand License by OnlineGroups Net The changes below form the bulk of what is new in the Gelato release of GroupServer Work is now progressing on GroupServer 10 11 Kulfi Craved while Caving 5 2 1 New Group Homepage The homepage used by groups has had a major redesign 7 Now it is divided into multiple tabs This allows for information to be better organized and more easily found Overall the look is cleaner and the page is easier to use 5 2 2 Better Bouncing Sometimes an email to a group member will not get through and the message bounces GroupServer has always recorded these bounces Now this information is presented to the group administrator who can see a log of failed attempts to send the member an email message 5 2 3 Resend Invitation The group administrator now has the option of resending an invitation that did not get through to the new group member There have been many other minor improvements to the invitation system thanks to the feedback from the users of OnlineGroups Net 5 2 4 Notification Updates The email notifications that are sent out

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