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@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ README ------ -StatusNet 0.8.1 ("Second Guessing") +StatusNet 0.8.2 ("Life and How to Live It") 26 Aug 2009 This is the README file for StatusNet (formerly Laconica), the Open @@ -526,10 +526,6 @@ This will run eight (for now) queue handlers: of registered users. * xmppconfirmhandler.php - sends confirmation messages to registered users. -* twitterqueuehandler.php - sends queued notices to Twitter for user - who have opted to set up Twitter bridging. -* facebookqueuehandler.php - sends queued notices to Facebook for users - of the built-in Facebook application. Note that these queue daemons are pretty raw, and need your care. In particular, they leak memory, and you may want to restart them on a @@ -547,101 +543,6 @@ our kind of hacky home-grown DB-based queue solution. See the "queues" config section below for how to configure to use STOMP. As of this writing, the software has been tested with ActiveMQ ( -Twitter Bridge --------------- - -* OAuth - -As of 0.8.1, OAuth is used to to access protected resources on Twitter -instead of HTTP Basic Auth. To use Twitter bridging you will need -to register your instance of StatusNet as an application on Twitter -(http://twitter.com/apps), and update the following variables in your -config.php with the consumer key and secret Twitter generates for you: - - $config['twitter']['consumer_key'] = 'YOURKEY'; - $config['twitter']['consumer_secret'] = 'YOURSECRET'; - -When registering your application with Twitter set the type to "Browser" -and your Callback URL to: - - http://example.org/mublog/twitter/authorization - -The default access type should be, "Read & Write". - -* Importing statuses from Twitter - -To allow your users to import their friends' Twitter statuses, you will -need to enable the bidirectional Twitter bridge in config.php: - - $config['twitterbridge']['enabled'] = true; - -and run the TwitterStatusFetcher daemon (scripts/twitterstatusfetcher.php). -Additionally, you will want to set the integration source variable, -which will keep notices posted to Twitter via StatusNet from looping -back. The integration source should be set to the name of your -application, exactly as you specified it on the settings page for your -StatusNet application on Twitter, e.g.: - - $config['integration']['source'] = 'YourApp'; - -* Twitter Friends Syncing - -Users may set a flag in their settings ("Subscribe to my Twitter friends -here" under the Twitter tab) to have StatusNet attempt to locate and -subscribe to "friends" (people they "follow") on Twitter who also have -accounts on your StatusNet system, and who have previously set up a link -for automatically posting notices to Twitter. - -As of 0.8.0, this is no longer accomplished via a cron job. Instead you -must run the SyncTwitterFriends daemon (scripts/synctwitterfreinds.php). - -Built-in Facebook Application ------------------------------ - -StatusNet's Facebook application allows your users to automatically -update their Facebook statuses with their latest notices, invite -their friends to use the app (and thus your site), view their notice -timelines, and post notices -- all from within Facebook. The application -is built into StatusNet and runs on your host. For automatic Facebook -status updating to work you will need to enable queuing and run the -facebookqueuehandler.php daemon (see the "Queues and daemons" section -above). - -Quick setup instructions*: - -Install the Facebook Developer application on Facebook: - - http://www.facebook.com/developers/ - -Use it to create a new application and generate an API key and secret. -Uncomment the Facebook app section of your config.php and copy in the -key and secret, e.g.: - - # Config section for the built-in Facebook application - $config['facebook']['apikey'] = 'APIKEY'; - $config['facebook']['secret'] = 'SECRET'; - -In Facebook's application editor, specify the following URLs for your app: - -- Canvas Callback URL: http://example.net/mublog/facebook/ -- Post-Remove Callback URL: http://example.net/mublog/facebook/remove -- Post-Add Redirect URL: http://apps.facebook.com/yourapp/ -- Canvas Page URL: http://apps.facebook.com/yourapp/ - -(Replace 'example.net' with your host's URL, 'mublog' with the path -to your StatusNet installation, and 'yourapp' with the name of the -Facebook application you created.) - -Additionally, Choose "Web" for Application type in the Advanced tab. -In the "Canvas setting" section, choose the "FBML" for Render Method, -"Smart Size" for IFrame size, and "Full width (760px)" for Canvas Width. -Everything else can be left with default values. - -*For more detailed instructions please see the installation guide on the -StatusNet wiki: - - http://status.net/trac/wiki/FacebookApplication - Sitemaps -------- @@ -839,40 +740,8 @@ to update it. Notice inboxes -------------- -Before version 0.6.2, the page showing all notices from people the -user is subscribed to ("so-and-so with friends") was calculated at run -time. Starting with 0.6.2, we have a new data structure for holding a -user's "notice inbox". (Note: distinct from the "message inbox", which -is the "inbox" tab in the UI. The notice inbox appears under the -"Personal" tab.) - -Notices are added to the inbox when they're created. This speeds up -the query considerably, and also allows us the opportunity, in the -future, to add different kind of notices to an inbox -- like @-replies -or subscriptions to search terms or hashtags. - -Notice inboxes are enabled by default for new installations. If you -are upgrading an existing site, this means that your users will see -empty "Personal" pages. The following steps will help you fix the -problem. - -0. $config['inboxes']['enabled'] can be set to one of three values. If - you set it to 'false', the site will work as before. Support for this - will probably be dropped in future versions. -1. Setting the flag to 'transitional' means that you're in transition. - In this mode, the code will run the "new query" or the "old query" - based on whether the user's inbox has been updated. -2. After setting the flag to "transitional", you can run the - fixup_inboxes.php script to create the inboxes. You may want to set - the memory limit high. You can re-run it without ill effect. -3. When fixup_inboxes is finished, you can set the enabled flag to - 'true'. - -NOTE: As of version 0.8.1 notice inboxes are automatically trimmed back - to ~1000 notices every once in a while. - -NOTE: we will drop support for non-inboxed sites in the 0.9.x version -of StatusNet. It's time to switch now! +Notice inboxes are now required. If you don't have inboxes enabled, +StatusNet will no longer run. UTF-8 Database -------------- @@ -1283,24 +1152,11 @@ For SMS integration. enabled: Whether to enable SMS integration. Defaults to true. Queues should also be enabled. -twitter -------- - -For Twitter integration - -enabled: Whether to enable Twitter integration. Defaults to true. - Queues should also be enabled. - integration ----------- A catch-all for integration with other systems. -source: The name to use for the source of posts to Twitter. Defaults - to 'statusnet', but if you request your own source name from - Twitter <http://twitter.com/help/request_source>, you can use - that here instead. Status updates on Twitter will then have - links to your site. taguri: base for tag:// URIs. Defaults to site-server + ',2009'. inboxes @@ -1308,9 +1164,8 @@ inboxes For notice inboxes. -enabled: A three-valued flag for whether to use notice inboxes (see - upgrading info above for notes about this change). Can be - 'false', 'true', or '"transitional"'. +enabled: No longer used. If you set this to something other than true, + StatusNet will no longer run. throttle -------- @@ -1479,15 +1334,6 @@ dir: directory to write backgrounds too. Default is '/background/' path: path to backgrounds. Default is sub-path of install path; note that you may need to change this if you change site-path too. -twitterbridge -------------- - -A bi-direction bridge to Twitter (http://twitter.com/). - -enabled: default false. If true, will show user's Twitter friends' - notices in their inbox and faves pages, only to the user. You - must also run the twitterstatusfetcher.php script. - ping ---- |