Pancake Release 2012-05-31

Production Release

Are we pushing Pancake Release 2012-05-24 to production?

The deployment steps that were carried out on 2012-05-24 (intranet page) were successful, and it would be a good course of action to use them again. They involve a data migration on neo4j.

Staging Release

Changes

Frontend/Backend Changes

(preliminary)

• js_app_version in the config for #754269
• merge with default
• redis back into pancake for discrete stat collection
• merge with default
• capture request response time
• fix incorrect babel dependency name
• nuke the docs
• fix incorrect python sitelib
• Add Raven 1.9.1
• Upgrade simplejson to 2.4.0
• merge with default
• fix bug where stack/session was returning a 500
• no longer using mutable data structures in default function params
• namespaced statsd logging
• Refactor wipe/logout sequence to use Promises.seq, which should guarantee the right thing happens in a way that is hopefully easier to follow. Refs: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=758593
• A window.confirm wrapper that returns a promise. Refs: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=758593
• Send json responses with {success: false} down the 'error' path. Refs: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=758593
• Fixed failing chained-promises spec by using Promise.seq, which does what we want
• Break out async helper to a test/lib/async, and add tests for failing promise chain handling. The last promise spec fails due to bad assumptions about how promise chains work
• fix python build
• fix build deps
• Add metlog 0.8.6 @bb11def
• Fix for 745887 - Make the App Download page pretty
• Fix for 758166 - "mozilla" image in the footer of start page doesn't recenter when switching to landscape mode
• Fix for 758467 - Update UserVoice SDK to 1.2.0
• Our adapted $.ajax returns a promise object
• fix for #755042 - search titles in /stack/nodes are returned as is expected in the front end
• merge with default
• additional statsd logging calls
• Merged branch transform-search-markers-on-front-end. Closes #754969.
• merge with default
• fix for metlog-py bug where rate isn't specified
• merge
• fixup zmq
• import python-zmq-2.1.9-1.fc16.src.rpm
• Simplified run- scripts. Removed RUNMODE stuff. Defaults are now good for both play and local development.
• merge with default
• metlog logging to logstash/statsd
• Merge xmessage-transactions branch: new Promises implementation, xmessage transport module and transaction (decorated Promises) module
• merge with default
• fix session.get_places

iOS Changes

• Better handling of stopping the activity spinner in case the page never loads
• More conditional logging
• Fix for 754910 - Pull-to-refresh on a search results page will take you to main instead of refreshing results
• Fix for 758467 - Update UserVoice SDK to 1.2.0
• Fix for 758467 - Update UserVoice SDK to 1.2.0
• Logging is now only enabled when running in the simulator
• Fix for 751518 - Websites: Some pages won't stop loading Facebook 'login to post comments' prompt in Pancake

Compatibility with the iOS application

Yes, we need to push out a new iOS app: this release includes changes for the UserVoice integration which needed changes on both the iOS and Web side of things.

Deployment Notes

Migration Scripts

This deployment to staging will require a neo4j data migration and neo4j version upgrade

Dependencies

None?

Configuration Changes

None?

Changes in Infrastructure?

None?