Please add runa@tpo to planet.tpo cron job

The cron job for planet.tpo will email tor-assistants@tpo when something's wrong (and the emails will bounce, and Sebastian will forward them to runa@tpo). Please add runa@tpo to the cron, or find some other solution?

added component::webpages/website owner::phobos priority::medium resolution::wontfix status::closed type::task labels

There are no errors to view, thus nothing to forward. Once in a while, a feed doesn't update. No big deal, it'll try again in an hour.

Trac:
Status: new to closed
Resolution: N/A to not a bug

The point is that each time a feed doesn't update I get to emails that I have to check for problems. So it would be good if the cron job didn't cause two emails in a common error case.

Trac:
Resolution: not a bug to N/A
Status: closed to reopened

technically they go to torproject-admin, so I get them too.

I watched this for the past week. Every error is a timeout error when pulling a feed. I'm aware of the emails. In every case, it resolved itself at the next schedule pull.

Ok, I guess phobos will take care of planet.tpo if the cron fails for some reason other than a normal timeout.

Trac:
Status: reopened to closed
Resolution: N/A to fixed

Another 28 emails in the past day...

Indeed. I took out the feed causing the problems. Frankly, planet shouldn't be emailing anything, ever. I'm tempted to shutdown the whole planet site. It needs a curator to find relevant content and maintain it, not just pull from some RSS feeds that have interesting tags in it. The current feed (as of 08:04 GMT-4) shows 'Philippines: Students Prevented from Graduating Over Facebook Bikini Photos', 'Supreme Court, in 5-4 decision, OK strip searches for minor offenses', 'A bullet killed Ahmed Ismael, but not his videos'.

The first relevant item to Tor isn't until seven articles into the page.

Another question is why torwww is set to email tor-assistants instead of torproject-admins.

Trac:
Resolution: fixed to N/A
Status: closed to reopened

closing since the original request is closed. and removing the PI website solved the endless email problem due to timeouts.

Trac:
Status: reopened to closed
Resolution: N/A to wontfix

Replying to phobos:

I'm tempted to shutdown the whole planet site. It needs a curator to find relevant content and maintain it, not just pull from some RSS feeds that have interesting tags in it.

I agree. Setting up planet.tpo was something we apparently promised some sponsor that we'd do, but no one really wanted to set it up or maintain it. We should avoid these types of projects in the future.

closed

moved to tpo/web/trac#5429 (closed)