[PATCH] rename test-alias-accounts to guest-accounts

[Michael Allan]

Hey Conseo,

Your patch was difficult to read.  The list thinks it's binary (see
bottom).  Till we figure a fix, could you append patches directly to
the message body?

Comments MCA:

    diff -r 9914a47c7880 votorola/a/locale/W.properties
    --- a/votorola/a/locale/W.properties	Sat Nov 17 04:12:26 2012 +0100
    +++ b/votorola/a/locale/W.properties	Tue Nov 20 17:41:54 2012 +0100
    @@ -170,7 +170,7 @@



    -a.web.wic.authen.WP_Login.or-test = login under an alias:
    +a.web.wic.authen.WP_Login.or-guest = login as a guest:
MCA ^ better not change the property name on the left unless really
necessary.  It requires moving wiki pages around.

     a.web.wic.authen.WP_Login.alias = Alias
     a.web.wic.authen.WP_Login.aliasDescription = Enter a nickname or other alias. You will have access to the vote-server as an authenticated user, but only for test purposes.  Your input will eventually be erased.

    diff -r 9914a47c7880 votorola/a/locale/W_de.properties
    --- a/votorola/a/locale/W_de.properties	Sat Nov 17 04:12:26 2012 +0100
    +++ b/votorola/a/locale/W_de.properties	Tue Nov 20 17:41:54 2012 +0100
    @@ -146,9 +146,9 @@



    -a.web.wic.authen.WP_Login.or-test = Einloggen als Test-Nutzer:
    +a.web.wic.authen.WP_Login.or-guest = Einloggen als Gast-Nutzer:
MCA ^ same here

    -a.web.wic.authen.WP_Login.aliasDescription = Geben Sie einen Alias ein. Sie bekommen dadurch Zugang zum Wahl-Server als ein authentifizierter Nutzer, aber alle Ihre Eingaben werden fr\u00fcher oder später wieder gel\u00f6scht.
    +a.web.wic.authen.WP_Login.aliasDescription = Geben Sie einen Gast-Alias ein. Sie bekommen dadurch Zugang zum Wahl-Server als ein authentifizierter Nutzer, aber alle Ihre Eingaben werden fr\u00fcher oder später wieder gel\u00f6scht.

> ...  We have to clean the current polls from the test-accounts at
> one point, at least beyond Sys/p/sandbox, imo.  All other stuff like
> testing can happen in the dev environnment, so our test accounts
> should vanish unless they are really needed to test something,
> whereby they get removed afterwards. ...

Most of the test/simulation votes are here (Thomas wanted them here):
http://zelea.com:8080/v/w/Votespace?p=G!p!sandbox

It's worked out well.  G!p!sandbox is for big demonstrations and tests
(future realistic), and Sys!p!sandbox is for smaller ones (current
realistic)!  http://zelea.com:8080/v/w/Votespace?p=Sys!p!sandbox

Most other places, you can unvote them if you want.  But after I pull
this patch, (I guess you know) the only way is to shell into the
vote-server and use the 'voter' shell, or psql.

> ... Maybe sim-* is better for Sys/p/sandbox as it suggests it is a
> simulation, which it really is. Is this reasonable? I don't suggest
> that as high priority, but I would like to clean up a little from
> time to time.

That's a little more expensive (as we discussed earlier), requiring
changes to manual and simulation scripts, and a little grepping to
ensure no code anywhere depends on the old scheme.

Also there's a related problem crying out to be fixed.  When a user or
bot (or whatever) takes alias "Joe", then it translates to one of
these mailish usernames:

   Test-joe-ZeleaCom | Sim-joe-ZeleaCom
   Guest-joe-ZeleaCom

Those are horrid.  It doesn't matter what we subsitute for "test".  So
if you go for a deep fix, then it might be good to address this, too.
Maybe something like these?

   Joe-test-ZeleaCom | Joe-sim-ZeleaCom
   Joe-guest-ZeleaCom

Mike


conseo said:
> Hi,
> 
> I have changed the login code to make real guest created votes distinct from 
> test accounts (we also have sim-* account names btw.). We have to clean the 
> current polls from the test-accounts at one point, at least beyond 
> Sys/p/sandbox, imo. It looks like the whole polls are fake if more than 50% 
> have a test account and in some polls you have test-a, test-b, etc. bot 
> accounts. All other stuff like testing can happen in the dev environnment, so 
> our test accounts should vanish unless they are really needed to test 
> something, whereby they get removed afterwards. Maybe sim-* is better for 
> Sys/p/sandbox as it suggests it is a simulation, which it really is. Is this 
> reasonable? I don't suggest that as high priority, but I would like to clean 
> up a little from time to time.
> 
> conseo
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