Please test fpaste + fedora sticky notes instance

Josh Boyer jwboyer at gmail.com
Tue Oct 23 12:48:21 UTC 2012


On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 8:28 AM, Athmane Madjoudj
<athmane at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On 10/23/2012 01:33 AM, Ankur Sinha wrote:
>> On Mon, 2012-10-22 at 17:05 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
>>>
>>> Unless I'm missing something, this new system has no provision for
>>> viewing expired pastes. It doesn't even let you know you're trying to
>>> view an expired paste, it just claims it doesn't exist. fpaste lets
>>> you
>>> view them, if you answer a captcha...I guess until the paste ID is
>>> re-used. I've found this useful on numerous occasions in practice. Any
>>> chance of getting it back?
>>
>> Ugh, I haven't tested that out yet. I'll get in touch with infra and
>> upstream about this.
>>
>> Thanks for pointing this out Adam! It's an important feature!
> I've set the default expiration in paste.stg to 1mo (not sure if that
> helps).
>
> Note that sticky-notes does not use that logic for expired pastes (they're
> deleted physically from the BD), if we need similar functionality we should
> either set expiration to 'Keep paste forever' or implement it

Maybe I missed this somewhere, but why is fpaste being replaced to begin
with?  It's been working fine for a really long time.  I guess I don't
see the benefit of replacing it with something that doesn't actually
replace it.

josh


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