[wp-testers] Re: wp-testers Digest, Vol 37, Issue 32

[Denis de Bernardy]

> DD32 wrote:
>> Can you install this plugin, Activate it, And then send the debug  
>> page(Top menu page: "WP Filesystem Tester") to my email? wordpress at dd32.id.au
>> http://dd32.id.au/files/wp-filesystem-tester.zip
>> If you've allready got it installed, Download it again, i make  
>> modifications to it every few days.
>
> Until we do the release, would it be possible to get this debug  
> stuff in
> core to help people out? This is the part of 2.5 I'm most worried  
> about.
>
> -- 
> Matt Mullenweg

Rightly so...

If I may add a few cents, I've set up something along those lines for  
Semiologic last year, and it took me well over a month of intensive  
testing between the initial RC and the release.

For  reference, the key buggers I bumped into and the workaround I  
ended up using:

1. Some hosts time out during FTP.

- forbid safe_mode (can't override the time limit)
- set time limit to 0 (i.e. no time limit)

2. Some hosts shut down sites due to massive CPU usage because of FTP  
library

- every so many files (e.g. after each each folder), sleep a few seconds
- do the same after each key step, e.g. after grabbing the zip, after  
unzipping it, before cleaning things up

3. To clean up deleting from the shell (rm -Rf) is many times faster  
and less intensive than recursively calling unlink and rmdir from php

Points 1 and 2 is still more or less unresolved as I write. They  
occasionally breaks a site now and then, forcing the user to upgrade  
manually.

@dd32: just send me an email if you need the source code I wrote a few  
months back.

D.