[pydotorg-www] EditorsGroup Add

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Hi Matthew,

sorry for the trouble you've had.

Some background:

The wiki is running behind a load balancer on a VM which is
somewhat under powered for the task. I've already tried several
things to make it run a little faster, but the response time has
not improved.

I believe the huge number of user accounts to be causing the
slow response times when editing pages or interacting with parts
of the system which touch user accounts.

I'd love to clear out unused user accounts, but have so far not
found a good way to do this, which also makes sure that valid ones
are not removed. Despite the textchas we have in place, we are
still getting lots of registrations for user accounts each day,
e.g. on 2015-11-09 we had 65 new accounts created.

The wiki currently has over 65000 user accounts and I suspect
the moin software to touch every single one when doing
page edits (possibly to process or check for event triggers).

For such operations the VM takes too long to respond and the
load balancer then times out even though the operation may
well have succeeded.

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On 12.11.2015 18:36, Matthew Rubenstein wrote:
> 	I tried 3x this afternoon to register and finally succeeded. There's
> something wrong with the site's registration system. Apart from the
> basic fix, it should send a confirmation email upon successful
> registration. FWIW I edited the article.
> 
> 	I reregistered MatthewRubenstein with a different password but the same
> email address Matthew.Rubenstein at blue-green-group.com . I tried to login
> immediately; the login page took over a minute to return a reply, which
> didn't log me in. No response email. I tried requesting a lost password,
> but received no email in response (the response webpage took over a
> minute to return). I tried again submitting the same credentials. This
> time the registration page timed out. So I tried again a few minutes
> later. The response page took over a minute to return, and said "This
> user name already belongs to somebody else." So I tried to login and
> succeeded.
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2015-11-02 at 11:50 +0100, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>> On 31.10.2015 00:55, Matthew Rubenstein wrote:
>>> 	I used that Lost Password page link
>>> https://wiki.python.org/moin/EditorsGroup?action=recoverpass
>>>
>>> but 15 minutes later I haven't gotten a recover password email. I think
>>> my registration failed.
>>>
>>> 	I gave the Recover Password form on that page
>>> Username: MatthewRubenstein
>>> Email: Matthew.Rubenstein at blue-green-group.com
>>>
>>> which returned the EditorsGroup page
>>> https://wiki.python.org/moin/EditorsGroup
>>>
>>> with a notification "If this account exists an email was sent.
>>> Clear message" and MatthewRubenstein at the end of the list.
>>
>> I checked the wiki user database: there is no entry with
>> your user details, so you will have to create the account
>> again:
>>
>> https://wiki.python.org/moin/FrontPage?action=newaccount
>>
>>> On Sat, 2015-10-31 at 00:32 +0100, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>>>> On 30.10.2015 23:25, Chris Angelico wrote:
>>>>> On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 9:22 AM, Matthew Rubenstein
>>>>> <matthew.rubenstein at blue-green-group.com> wrote:
>>>>>>         Thanks. I didn't receive an email challenge/confirmation message at
>>>>>> registration, so maybe that's the bottleneck on the reservation.
>>>>>
>>>>> Hmm. It's possible something's running slow or something. I'll let M-A
>>>>> or someone answer that. If you've attempted an edit and still can't,
>>>>> it'll need to be someone-not-me who fixes that.
>>>>
>>>> If you still can't log in by tomorrow, let me know. You can try
>>>> a password recovery to see whether email comes through:
>>>>
>>>> https://wiki.python.org/moin/EditorsGroup?action=recoverpass
>>>>
>>>> The Mailman emails sometimes get blocked by spam filters
>>>> and we recently had a change in the IP address of mail.python.org
>>>> which may still be causing a bit of trouble.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>> 718-233-5097
>>>
>>>
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