Re: [Straw-devel] testing and release

[Ryan P Skadberg]

Hey guys ..

  Issues that I have found as I have gone along:

a) TONS of Maximum Download Time Exceeded errors.  All of these feeds
download JUST fine and quick in a browser or wget.  I _THINK_ it started
when the 3 attempts on hostname lookup was put in, but that could be
wrong.  One thing to note, these are all larger feeds.  Like 100k.  This
seems to be getting worse and worse with this version.  Does that
timeout handle both the download and the parse?  Is the new parser a lot
slower and having trouble with the big feeds? (6078)
b) An image error that I just put in the bug system (6131)
c) The ThinkGeek feed problem which I put in the other day (6041)
d) I doubt this has anything to do with straw, but find it strange,
Slashdot seems to give an Internal server error almost constantly when
trying to poll it with straw, anyone else seeing this?  If I poll it
manually, it seems to work, but in the course of other feeds, it seems
to get the server error.

Skadz

On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 04:15, Jan Alonzo wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> For the 0.20 release, I'm not going to add any *features* anymore so we
> can start testing straw and hopefully make a release soon. Please test
> in any way you can. The most important points are:
> 
> 1. Image Handling/caching
> 2. Polling and parsing. Straw now uses Mark Pilgrim's feedparser, so  if
> something breaks in your installations please report it       ASAP. If some
> *supposed-to-be-supported-module* is now not  showing up, report it as
> well.
> 3. GConf. Straw now uses a gconf backend so you need to install       gconf
> as well. Migration should be transparent, if it       breaks, just holler.
> 4. Subscription process. If it breaks, please report.
> 5. Etc...
> 
> Thanks everyone for your time.
> 
> Cheers,
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