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From 12/19/2009 to 01/17/2010

01/17/2010

05:54 PM Feature #134: Allow --list (or another option) to filter listed tasks: I like this, with one caveat. I'd make the optional string a regular expression. Travis Swicegood

01/14/2010

07:09 PM Feature #56: Add namespacing or dot notation: I agree with your point, however I feel fabric CLI parameters should have all the power deciding what to include. It's how Fabric provides flexibility to different situations and environments. Code only provides the tools. @Jeff, sorry about ... Domen Kožar

01/12/2010

01:31 PM Feature #134: Allow --list (or another option) to filter listed tasks: When using large fabfiles, one may wish to search for or filter task names. E.g. you know you have some relating to Python but aren't entirely sure and want to do something like `fab --list "py*"`. Benefit of adding this to `-l`/`--list` is tha... Jeff Forcier

01/11/2010

12:22 AM Feature #98: Optionally avoid using ssh if going to localhost: I've just implemented something similar this evening in the form of a new fabric.operations function called `do`. It looks at `env.run_as` to see if it equals "local", and in doing so switches out to the `local` method instead of the `run` (or `s... Travis Swicegood

01/09/2010

08:45 PM Feature #133: Pre/post run hooks: Might be nice to provide support for pre/post hooks, so that one can specify code to run before and/or after their tasks are executed. E.g. for long-running tasks, users may want emails to be sent out notifying that things worked (or didn't; wh... Jeff Forcier
09:31 AM Bug #132 (Assigned): run()/sudo() strip the output, local() does not: Jeff Forcier

01/08/2010

11:30 PM Bug #132: run()/sudo() strip the output, local() does not: Just a little inconsistency that can be surprising: I ran run('mktemp') and was able to use the output directly, local('mktemp') caused me all sorts of problems with the trailing newline until I realized what was going on. Fixed [here](http://g... Carl Meyer
03:39 PM Revision ea9682b20621803e21faa8f7627051911614222a (master, 0.9, ...): Merge branch '0.9': Merge branch '0.9' Jeff Forcier
03:39 PM Revision c5da9ed3e8743a595eb7d6ec43268d9bfbdd07a0 (master, 0.9, ...): Fix incorrect statement in ...: Fix incorrect statement in upgrade docs Jeff Forcier
03:03 PM Feature #131: Allow graceful user-controlled handling of connection failures: E.g. say you wish to connect to a large series of hosts but a handful of them are temporarily down or unreachable, or are "bad" (i.e. don't have SSH, or your intended user doesn't exist on them, etc.) Right now Fabric will just explode if it canno... Jeff Forcier

01/06/2010

04:11 PM Feature #56: Add namespacing or dot notation: Hey guys, note: updates to this ticket (or any ticket with a watcher who's got Unicode chars in the name -- hi Domen!) do seem to trigger 500s -- but that 500 only occurs at the "alert watchers" step. So comments and so forth do get stored in the ... Jeff Forcier
03:45 PM Feature #122 (Assigned): Allow fabricrc to be fabfile-esque Python module?: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Feature #56 (Assigned): Add namespacing or dot notation: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Bug #130 (Assigned): Context managers don't account for exceptions: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Support #127 (Assigned): Add PyPM to the installation document: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Feature #125 (Assigned): Support writing to a file in addition to appending: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Bug #123 (Assigned): ImportError in _get_system_username on cyqwin without win32api installed: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Support #124 (Assigned): Maybe replace custom output capturing with nose plugin: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Feature #21 (Assigned): Make execution model more robust/flexible: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Feature #3 (Assigned): Make use of ssh_config where possible: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Feature #121 (Assigned): Make put() more flexible re: file modes: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Support #120 (Assigned): Make "fabfiles == Python modules" clearer: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Bug #118 (Assigned): Single quotes in append() don't work, or: goddamn quoting: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Feature #119 (Assigned): Deal with global-vs-local config issues: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Bug #115 (Assigned): Preserving order of hosts: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Feature #116 (Assigned): Support task names with hyphens: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Feature #117 (Assigned): Add mode support to upload_template(): Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Bug #114 (Assigned): Ctrl-D causes hanging: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Feature #113 (Assigned): Make sure host lists can be iterables, not just lists: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Feature #112 (Assigned): Add custom docstrings to --list output: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Support #111 (Assigned): Backport major compatible "1.0" (master) features to 0.9.x: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Bug #110 (Assigned): Reorder fab CLI arguments list to be alphabetical: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Bug #109 (Assigned): put() raising "NoneType has no attribute 'st_mode'" exception: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Support #108 (Assigned): Ensure all first mentions of env vars are links to usage docs: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Feature #101 (Assigned): ANSI Color support: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Feature #106 (Assigned): Improvements to contrib.files: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Feature #107 (Assigned): Allow require()'s provided_by argument to accept non-list values: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Feature #105 (Assigned): Allow use of getpass in prompt when asking user for passwords: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Support #104 (Assigned): Fix up autodoc-generated API docs: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Bug #103 (Assigned): Use 3rd party "decorator" module to fix introspection for decorated functions: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Feature #102 (Assigned): Consider updating abort to be more flexible/featureful: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Bug #100 (Assigned): UnicodeDecodeError on some output (or, implement Unicode support): Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Support #99 (Assigned): Create subsite for user fabfile/snippet sharing: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Feature #98 (Assigned): Optionally avoid using ssh if going to localhost: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Bug #96 (Assigned): Remote 3-strikes auth failure causes traceback: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Support #95 (Assigned): Ensure link to changelog, or changelog itself, is on PyPI: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Support #90 (Assigned): Update docs/templates to allow access to previous versions: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Support #89 (Assigned): Put some hit tracking up: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Support #87 (Assigned): Set up a buildbot: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Bug #88 (Assigned): Switch default behavior of local() to not capture: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Feature #26 (Assigned): Implement "dry run" feature: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Feature #78 (Assigned): Add Tunneling Context to Fab: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Feature #69 (Assigned): Investigate translation of CLI per-task args to Python types: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Support #86 (Assigned): Explore move back to external Paramiko dependency: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Support #81 (Assigned): Maybe switch from Setuptools to Distribute in 1.0: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Bug #82 (Assigned): fabric.contrib.files.append checks beginning of lines rather than discrete lines: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Feature #80 (Assigned): See whether `paramiko.SSHClient.invoke_shell` + `paramiko.Channel.send` i...: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Feature #7 (Assigned): Improved prompt detection and passthrough: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Bug #84 (Assigned): fabric.contrib.files.sed uses "non-standard" flag '-r': Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Bug #85 (Assigned): Prompts for "passphrase" instead of "password" in some situations: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Feature #79 (Assigned): Optional host prefix for get: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Feature #76 (Assigned): Use decorator to define tasks: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Bug #77 (Assigned): If remote and local files are same: empty file as a result: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Feature #71 (Assigned): Consider adding "global"/per-task capture of run/sudo/local stdout/stderr: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Bug #75 (Assigned): "fab" with no arguments and no fabfiles should display help: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Support #73 (Assigned): Once Git can be used, update tutorial to use it.: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Feature #72 (Assigned): SSH key forwarding: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Support #74 (Assigned): Try harder to get package-level stuff worked out: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Feature #68 (Assigned): `fab init` or similar for generating a skeleton fabfile: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Bug #66 (Assigned): Consider making `--hosts` always override `env.hosts`: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Support #65 (Assigned): Use nonstandard Sphinx template: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Bug #60 (Assigned): Use of the "user" argument to sudo() often results in profile load errors: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Feature #8 (Assigned): Add timeout support: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Feature #61 (Assigned): Extend `cd` to work for get/put: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Bug #53 (Assigned): Add command-line option to abort if input is needed: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Feature #57 (Assigned): Support full logging to file: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Support #51 (Assigned): Handle Paramiko-level "logger" issues: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Bug #37 (Assigned): Use of _transport instead of the more appropriate get_transport(): Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Feature #38 (Assigned): Implement tunnelling: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Bug #41 (Assigned): get() not using remote filename when downloading to a directory: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Bug #40 (Assigned): get() not correctly detecting number of hosts: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Bug #36 (Assigned): Incorrect import of state.connections: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Feature #29 (Assigned): Allow arbitrary shell commands to be specified on the command line: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Feature #35 (Assigned): Add manpage: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Feature #28 (Assigned): Allow put-style globbing with get: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Feature #33 (Assigned): Look into adding "*" support for hosts/roles: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Support #17 (Assigned): Documentation enhancements (was: Enhance documentation for final release): Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Support #18 (Assigned): Run PyLint to discover unnecessary imports and etc: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Feature #23 (Assigned): Make generic "persistence" context manager: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Feature #22 (Assigned): Allow "aliasing" in env dictionary?: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Support #20 (Assigned): Rework output mechanisms: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Feature #25 (Assigned): Update "use_sudo to be "via" or similar: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Support #16 (Assigned): Increase test coverage: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Feature #19 (Assigned): Implement parallelism/thread-safety: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Feature #10 (Assigned): Overhaul contrib.project.upload_project: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Feature #4 (Assigned): Allow for storing/using metadata about hosts: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Feature #11 (Assigned): Possibly reimplement old undocumented "confirm_proceed" behavior: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Feature #6 (Assigned): Bash/Zsh/etc completion: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Support #15 (Assigned): Try polishing operations' API: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Feature #13 (Assigned): Add command line flag for setting env vars: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Feature #9 (Assigned): Find decent way to perform platform-specific path logic: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Support #14 (Assigned): Reorganize internals a bit: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Feature #5 (Assigned): Consider adding a "fab shell" back in: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Feature #2 (Assigned): Make `put` sudo-able: Jeff Forcier
03:43 PM Feature #12 (Assigned): Overhaul reboot operation: Jeff Forcier
03:21 PM Revision 2bf223dfedcc6298cf504af080eb5aa3841ecd63 (master, 0.9, ...): Add reboot() to API: Add reboot() to API Jeff Forcier
09:57 AM Bug #130: Context managers don't account for exceptions: IRC is a crapshoot, I idle in there all the time but whether I'm actually "there" and listening is kind of random :) I had missed your note until about 3 hours later, I think. So yea -- Redmine is the ticket. (ho ho! get it?) Jeff Forcier
09:42 AM Bug #130: Context managers don't account for exceptions: Jeff Forcier wrote: > Also, note -- leaving a ticket here is fine, no need to also send a GH pull request, it's just 2x the emails/messages for me to handle ;) Yeah. And I also piped up in IRC for the trifecta :-) Just not sure which was the p... Carl Meyer

01/05/2010

09:26 PM Bug #130: Context managers don't account for exceptions: Thanks for the catch -- as usual, the first implementation of stuff tends to be relatively naive. Your point is a good one. Will fix / pull down your tweak in the near future. Thanks again! Also, note -- leaving a ticket here is fine, no nee... Jeff Forcier
08:51 PM Bug #130: Context managers don't account for exceptions: In general, Fabric's context managers fail to clean up after themselves in case an exception is raised within them. This makes it difficult to use them if you're trying to do exception handling. For instance, take the following code: try: ... Carl Meyer
07:37 PM Feature #129 (Duplicate): Bash-completion script: If you want to reattach this to #6, it can go in with another couple of ideas/links I had in there. I reckon yours is probably similar to the one linked on Github, but I'll double check when I have time to look at that ticket :) Thanks for the ... Jeff Forcier
06:19 PM Feature #129: Bash-completion script: Hey there, I wrote a Bash completion script for Fabric. Completion suggestions are generated dynamically from the `fab -l` output. Do you have any use for this? Arthur Arthur Koziel
12:39 PM Feature #56: Add namespacing or dot notation: @Jeff: Thanks. The design idea just hit me the other day and only took 30 or 45 minutes to implement with tests once I settled on it. Regarding the plain import vs. import/register, I'm ambivalent. I don't particularly care for having to use ... Travis Swicegood

01/03/2010

03:50 PM Revision e3df94c60730523d9929c2a2765fdb6e0903f5df (0.9, master, ...): Add disconnect_all to 1.0 c...: Add disconnect_all to 1.0 changelog Jeff Forcier
03:47 PM Revision a8465e0d1efacf7ff30771fc9673cbe866f15570 (0.9, master, ...): Docs for previous commit (d...: Docs for previous commit (disconnect_all) Jeff Forcier
02:34 PM Revision 6756baa15bf03e038a1a72b97fd69e564894f368 (0.9, master, ...): Break out disconnect code i...: Break out disconnect code into network function. Needed for library users to successfully terminate their code; otherwise their scripts will never exit as the SSH connections stay open and prevent termination. Jeff Forcier
02:23 PM Feature #128 (Wontfix): dont_write_bytecode env var: Jeff B indicated via IRC that this is indeed an edge case, so I'll close it for now. Jeff Forcier
11:04 AM Feature #128: dont_write_bytecode env var: Oh, and you could also make a temporary directory instead of temporary file, and place your temp fabfile in there. That way when the temp dir is removed, both the py and pyc would get nuked. (I may still add the feature, but it does feel like a bi... Jeff Forcier
11:03 AM Feature #128: dont_write_bytecode env var: Sounds fair enough. Were you aware of the `sys.dont_write_bytecode` aspect of that 2.6 feature which I appended to the description? Depending on how you're creating these temporary fabfiles, and assuming you're using Fabric as a library instead of... Jeff Forcier
05:54 AM Feature #128: dont_write_bytecode env var: I'm creating on-the-fly fab files with NamedTemporaryFile for building EC2 images. When execution is finished, the temporary files are automatically deleted, but the compiled .pyc files remain behind. Jeff Bauer

01/02/2010

11:28 PM Feature #128: dont_write_bytecode env var: To sate my curiosity, what situations are you running into where .pyc files are causing a problem? First time I've heard of this outside of the occasional stale-pyc issues I used to get with mod_python. It looks like this is a pretty easy thing... Jeff Forcier
01:37 PM Feature #56: Add namespacing or dot notation: I would propose more Pythonic version: - Create **fabric.plugins** setuptools namespace (or [[http://docs.python.org/dev/library/pkgutil.html?highlight=pkgutil#pkgutil.extend_path]]) - let users contribute to that namespace, so contributed f... Domen Kožar
12:43 PM Feature #128: dont_write_bytecode env var: There are situations where you don't want to leave **.pyc** files around after execution. A current workaround is to do something like this: `PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=True fab -f myfab.py` But it would be nicer to handle this explicitly in a... Jeff Bauer
12:16 PM Feature #56: Add namespacing or dot notation: (Note: I got what was probably the same error you got. Looks like a bug in `acts_as_watchable`; will double check your errors later when I have more time. But you're not crazy! :)) Jeff Forcier
12:14 PM Feature #56: Add namespacing or dot notation: (Nuked the "spam" comments -- note, I do it by editing and just removing all text; Redmine seems to treat that as a deletion and removes the comment. Pretty sure you can edit your own comments, give it a try sometime. Will make a note to look in m... Jeff Forcier

01/01/2010

02:08 PM Bug #84: fabric.contrib.files.sed uses "non-standard" flag '-r': In FreeBSD I have the same problem: Bad example: [root@192.168.1.20] run: sed -i.bak -r -e 's/host \*/host 192.168.1.20/g' /usr/local/etc/munin/munin-node.conf [root@192.168.1.20] err: sed: illegal option -- r [root@192.168.1.2... lasi zoillo

12/30/2009

06:14 PM Feature #56: Add namespacing or dot notation: I just [added support][patch] for this in a slightly different manner over in [my fork][fork]. My solution was to add a `FABRIC_TASK_MODULE` variable, and when that's not False, include those values in the list you build up. Fabric's current tas... Travis Swicegood
01:51 PM Feature #122: Allow fabricrc to be fabfile-esque Python module?: Yet another thought -- might be better to just search upwards in the file root instead of stopping like we do now. This is closer to what some of the users asked for, and is also a bit cleaner than the more arbitrary "home-dir fabfile plus first l... Jeff Forcier
01:42 PM Feature #122: Allow fabricrc to be fabfile-esque Python module?: OK, enough modifying the description, time for a comment thread... Had another thought -- if this goes through we should also update `-f`/`--fabfile` to be specifiable more than once, probably the best way to expose the new "multiple fabfile" i... Jeff Forcier

12/27/2009

10:39 PM Support #127: Add PyPM to the installation document: Since the Windows installation scenario is [not always smooth](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1917193/installing-fabric-on-windows-error-no-module-called-readline), it would be nice to include a note about PyPM in the fabric installation docum... srid _

12/23/2009

08:27 AM Feature #76: Use decorator to define tasks: That's true, we could implement both. I'm on the fence about doing so, because I want to avoid falling into the trap of having too many choices/features (simpler is better) but it *would* be nice to offer `__all__` since it's quite Pythonic and wo... Jeff Forcier

12/22/2009

11:38 PM Feature #76: Use decorator to define tasks: Doh - missed this when I searched for a duplicate before adding. I like the decorator method as well and wouldn't consider the two at odds with each other, but they would require an order of priority. Off the cuff, I'm thinking `__all__` (as i... Travis Swicegood
11:08 PM Feature #125: Support writing to a file in addition to appending: Thanks for making the ticket, and answering my query about implementation, it's appreciated. Your logic makes sense; offhand I also think I do prefer the approach of having just `write` with `append` being a call to `write(<arguments>, overwrite=F... Jeff Forcier
10:57 PM Feature #76: Use decorator to define tasks: Travis Swicegood took an independent stab at implementing the `__all__` approach, so if we do end up going that route (still think decorators are marginally better, myself) it can be found on [his github fork @9fdb4a3](http://github.com/tswicegood... Jeff Forcier
10:55 PM Feature #126 (Duplicate): Allow developer to specify which functions are tasks: Jeff Forcier
10:01 PM Feature #126: Allow developer to specify which functions are tasks: This feature and tests for load_fabfile() are already completed in [9fdb4a3][] of my [fork][]. [9fdb4a3]: http://github.com/tswicegood/fabric/commit/9fdb4a39235365e1d9f54a788a69480c9cde030d [fork]: http://github.com/tswicegood/fabric/ Travis Swicegood
09:59 PM Feature #126: Allow developer to specify which functions are tasks: Currently, all functions that do not begin with `_` are considered tasks within Fabric. This exposes any helper functions as full tasks, though they may not work in isolation. One solution to this is to utilize Python's built-in `__all__` valu... Travis Swicegood
09:21 PM Feature #125: Support writing to a file in addition to appending: I've added this support to [my fork][fork] of Fabric in commit [cc853f1][]. It adds two new commands, `write()` (the one that would normally be used) and a generic command `write_to_file()` which takes the optional `overwrite=False` keyword argum... Travis Swicegood
09:15 PM Feature #125: Support writing to a file in addition to appending: contrib.files.append allows adding to a file, but it doesn't support overwriting a file. Sometimes you need to be able to just write to a file, regardless of what is there already. The put() command is often useful in such cases, but it doesn't ... Travis Swicegood
04:23 PM Bug #118: Single quotes in append() don't work, or: goddamn quoting: [tswicegood's fork](http://github.com/tswicegood/fabric/commit/9aee3612beb27a838500be949a3940b963df4dc8), like another older (and since deleted) fork, includes the single-to-double quote change in the files module. At the very least, check with hi... Jeff Forcier
04:20 PM Feature #25: Update "use_sudo to be "via" or similar: See also some semi-related work in [tswicegood's fork](http://github.com/tswicegood/fabric/commits/master) Jeff Forcier
03:29 PM Support #124: Maybe replace custom output capturing with nose plugin: Nose ships with [a stdout-capturing plugin](http://somethingaboutorange.com/mrl/projects/nose/0.11.1/plugins/capture.html) which may be useful. Doesn't say anything about stderr, though, which I think some tests need to look at, but double check. Jeff Forcier

12/19/2009

07:59 PM Feature #3: Make use of ssh_config where possible: Massive overhaul of description. Jeff Forcier

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