XSF Discussion - 2013-04-11

Alex what's your preferred way to input ballot data and get the results?

currently its writing the output to an xml file

I can send you such an file

thanks!

I have written some own tools which parse this files, so it would be great when we can use this format for now, and then maybe later add some admin commands to the bot which replaces this tools and displays the results

right

is the ballot data an xml file as well?

I don't have strong opinions on (1) or (2) BTW, whichever's best for the people all around.

kevin which part shocked you?

we should be able to get the bot running - if not we can always punt

they too use XMPP. :-s

Lance you have email

Alex thanks! do you have a ballot items xml file as well?

I will checkout the new code this evening and make tests

yes, forgot to send the input file, but I am flexible on this format

sent

got it. thanks again

thanks to you, for hacking on this stuff

ugh - 0400

time for me to turn into a pumpkin

;-)

lance - let me know what is needed and I'll work on that tomorrow (or whenever your ready)

bear basically, install redis

pfft - I think I can handle that :)

Requirements of the bot are: 1) talk only to subscribed users /members, or a list of members from a file, what ever is easier for you. 2) read the questions from a configuration file, send then to the voter 3) write a result file when the voting is done

council voting is more complicated, but we don't need this now

ouch - redis 1.2 - I think I'll install from tarball

lance - redis 2.6 is running, localhost only, 2 db's defined, port 6379

thanks bear

now go to bed

:p

:)

Alex: updated my memberbot to use a custom input file, and use the existing output file format

should be ready to roll out tomorrow

great stuff, let me know when there is a version for testing, Then I'll try to run and test it on athena

it should be ready for testing now if you pull master. just need to: 1) change JID/password in memberbot.py to whatever you need, 2) update data/xsf_roster.txt to include a jid you want to test with

and now it's late and i need to head to bed. night

ok thanks

I don't think redis is installed on athena, so I have to poke and admin

alex - I installed redis earlier on athena

ok

Lance: I don't get the bot running

any errors?

what files must I copy to athena to get it running?

I checked out your github sources and copied them to athena, and checked out a sleekxmpp version

ok, then that should be good

sleekxmpp must be in a subdir?

no, just python setup.py install

also pip install redis

then in memberbot source: cd memberbot; python memberbot.py

and you can edit memberbot.py to use the proper jid/password

and edit data/xsf_roster.txt to include your own jid that you want to test voting with

ok, lemme try

gnauck@athena:/var/xsf/voting$ cd new_memberbot/ gnauck@athena:/var/xsf/voting/new_memberbot$ python memberbot.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "memberbot.py", line 11, in <module> import voting File "/var/xsf/voting/new_memberbot/voting.py", line 2, in <module> import redis ImportError: No module named redis

looks like redis is missing

but bear said he installed it on athena

you still need the python redis module

easy_install redis or pip install redis

Downloading/unpacking redis Downloading redis-2.7.2.tar.gz (50Kb): 50Kb downloaded Running setup.py egg_info for package redis Installing collected packages: redis Running setup.py install for redis Successfully installed redis Cleaning up...

but still same error message

Just whatever you do be careful where you start installing packages.

I believe we have virtualenv on athena, pointing at stuff in /usr/local/virtualenv

yup there is