Hi,

last night i finally made the switch to the new planet software.

http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Planet.wikimedia.org

---- == What is planet? ==

An RSS feed aggregator. See [[meta:Planet_Wikimedia]] for details.

== How do i access it? ==

http://en.planet.wikimedia.org/ and several other languages, *.planet.wikimedia.org.

== New planet (planet-venus) ==

On Jan,23rd 2013 we switched from the [http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/index.php?title=Planet.wikimedia.org&oldid... old planet] (http://www.planetplanet.org/) to the new planet-venus (http://www.intertwingly.net/code/venus/)

=== What's better about the new planet? === #It's packaged in Ubuntu. ([http://packages.ubuntu.com/km/lucid/python/planet-venus planet-venus]), the old planet was not packaged. #It's fully [https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/project:operations/puppet+topic:planet+st... puppetized], the old planet was all manual. #It uses [[git]]. People adding feed URLs can just send [[Gerrit]] patchsets. The old planet used SVN. #It's a complete rewrite of the old code in Python. It uses more modern technology like html5lib, Atom, XSLT and templates. #.. == What may not be better about the new planet (yet)? == #The "gmq" planet, which is a combo of Scandinavian languages does not have separate index pages in each language yet. #Some CSS/layout/design issues, like localized logo in Arabic or right-to-left alignment of thumbnails. (Arabic does already use a separate CSS file though and has the sidebar on the right hand side) #It does not include iframes (this might be considered a good thing though)

== Where should i report issues? == On Bugzilla.

== Where does it run? == On [[zirconium]] in [[eqiad]]. The old planet was on [[singer]].

== Where's the code? == In git, in the operations/puppet repo: #./manifests/role/planet.pp #./manifests/misc/planet.pp

and

#git clone https://github.com/rubys/venus.git == How do i add/remove feed URLs? == #[https://labsconsole.wikimedia.org/wiki/Git#Git.2FGerrit_and_the_repositories Clone] the operations/puppet git repository. #go to ./puppet/templates/planet/ and edit one of the <language>_config.erb files #submit to gerrit and have somebody merge it

== How do i change HTML of the index pages? == #see above, edit ./puppet/templates/planet/index.html.tmpl.erb

== How do i add/change translations in the index pages or add a new language? == #see above, edit ./puppet/manifests/role/planet.pp (find $planet_languages=...)

== How do i request changes if i can't or don't want to submit a change set myself? == Ask on [[meta:Planet_Wikimedia#Requests_for_Update_or_Removal]]

== Are there more general docs on planet-venus and it's architecture? == Sure, see [http://www.intertwingly.net/code/venus/docs/index.html docs] and [http://www.intertwingly.net/code/venus/docs/venus.svg venus.svg].