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I encountered a problem that is probably related to the Css style.

If we have a long entry without spaces such as /an/extremely/long/path/which/does/not/end/in/any/reasonable/amount/of/space/that/a/sane/person/would/consider/realistic/but/that/unix/likes we get a run-over in the right-hand-column.

On the main questions page, if one selects "unanswered" questions, it currently shows closed questions. It might also show deleted questions if you are an admin.

If a question has been closed, it should be removed from the unanswered list since you can't provide an answer anyway...

Tried to login, and got the following exception. Looks like there needs to be a 'CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW' variable in settings.py

AttributeError at /account/signin/
'Settings' object has no attribute 'CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW'
Request Method: POST
Request URL:    http://test.com:8000/account/signin/
Exception Type: AttributeError
Exception Value:    
'Settings' object has no attribute 'CSRF_FAILURE_VIEW'
Exception Location: /usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/utils/functional.py in __getattr__, line 276
Python Executable:  /usr/local/bin/python
Python Version: 2.6.6

I don't think this is specific to askbot, but maybe people know. Is there an easy way to "roll-back" to a previous deployed askbot installation?

When I do my setup.py install, I get a new /local/usr/lib/pyshon-site/askbot-x.y.z which contains whatever version of askbot is being deployed.

The previous version is also there. If something is messed up in the new version, is there a quick way to revert to the old version?

i'm doing a translation, and I have changes "question(s)/" to "requirement(s)/" However, the up/down vote still uses a POST to "/questions", which fails.

Is there another file that needs to be changed for the voting to work?

If I miss-tagged a question with "perview" instead of "preview". I go back and fix the tag.

However, I now have a tag "perview" in the system.
Is there a way to purge those unused tags? It would be ok if I had to explicitly do it.

something like: "python manage.py purge_tag perview"

If the in tag was used, I should get an error:

 "Error: Tag 'perview' is in use (in 2 questions: [148, 172])"

Showing the # of questions and the question number would be a nice bonus.

In 0.6.17, I have a user with the "taxonomist" badge. Just migrated to 0.6.49 (or thereabout). When displaying the user, I get a KeyError exception (u'taxonomist' exception). The bottom of the stack has:

/ala-windanswer1/qa/wrqa_dev/askbot/models/repute.py in description
        return badges.get_badge(self.slug).description ...
▼ Local vars
Variable    Value
badges  <module 'askbot.models.badges' from '/ala-windanswer1/qa/wrqa_dev/askbot/models/badges.pyc'>
self   Error in formatting: u'taxonomist'  
/ala-windanswer1/qa/wrqa_dev/askbot/models/badges.py in get_badge
    return BADGES [key]() ...
▼ Local vars
Variable    Value
key u'taxonomist'
name    u'taxonomist'

Turns out there are a number of badges that have disapeared: Alpha, Beta, Expert, Stunk & White, Taxonomist, Yearling.

Looks like we need code to deal with badges that have been dropped so we don't get an exception.

What is the minimum version requirement for postgresSQL?

I don't know how it could have gotten in this state, but I have 3 questions in my database that do not have an entry in the question_revision table.

The questions display fine, but whenever I try to edit the question, I get an exception in query.py in __getitem__

Note that the ID in the table are sequential. There is no hole...

A few questions:

• Any idea why this happened?
• Easy way to fix?
• Should there be code to catch an empty revision? (I would think not...This is a DB issue)

I get an EmailFeedSetting exception in models/__init__.py: user_get_q_sel_email_feed_frequency This happened when I went to the user profile and clicked on the user's answer.

The user's email field is empty. There is also no entry in the askbot_emailfeedsetting for this user.

Note that the user was created with a call to User.object.get_or_create(username=xxx, first_name=xxx, last_name=xxx, email=xxx)

If I go to the profile's subscription tab and select "update", this exception disappears. Is there another call I need to make the I use User.object.get_or_create to set the email feed settings?

Is there a way to have two different askbot versions installed on the same server?
For example, a www.server.com/release and a www.server.com/beta where the "release" would use 1 version of askbot (let's say 0.6.14) and the "beta" would use the latest out of the repository?

Note that instead of /release & beta, it would be just as good to have www.server.com as a regular apache port 80 deployed system and have www.server.com:8000 running the webBRICK server.

Basically, is there a variable I can set that indicates to an askbot installation: use .../site-packages/askbot-0.6.14 or use .../site-packages/askbot-beta?

I'm trying to have some text bracketed with <> like: < option >
However, if I don't put a space between the first < and the word, it is interpreted as an html tag.

Is there a way to escape the < ?

It's not a big deal, just a cosmetic issue.

Turns out that IE javascript interpreter is extremely pedantic... This causes the ask a question page to not display the tag list or the pre-search results.
In template/media/js/ the following lines are causing errors because there is a hanging comma.

post.js 116: },
post.js 691: delay: 10,
tag_selector.js 358: delay: 10,
live_search.js (479 in my branch): delay: 10,

removing the extra comma solved the errors.