= mote SOP

mote is a MeetBot log wrangler, providing an user-friendly interface for
viewing logs produced by Fedora's IRC meetings.

Production instance: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/ Staging instance:
http://meetbot.stg.fedoraproject.org

== Contents

[arabic]
. Contact information
. Deployment
. Description
. Configuration
. Database
. Managing mote
. Suspespending mote operation
. Changing mote's name and category definitions

== Contact Information

Owner::
  cydrobolt
Contact::
  #fedora-admin
Location::
  Fedora Infrastructure
Purpose::
  IRC meeting coordination

== Deployment

If you have access to rbac-playbook:

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sudo rbac-playbook groups/value.yml
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== Forcing Reload

There is a playbook that can force mote to update its cache in case it
gets stuck somehow:

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sudo rbac-playbook manual/rebuild/mote.yml
....

== Doing Upgrades

Put a new copy of the mote rpm in the infra repo and run:

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sudo rbac-playbook manual/upgrade/mote.yml
....

== Description

mote is a Python webapp running on Flask with mod_wsgi. It can be used
to view past logs, browse meeting minutes, or glean other information
relevant to Fedora's IRC meetings. It employs a JSON file store cache,
in addition to a memcached store which is currently not in use with
Fedora infrastructure.

== Configuration

mote configuration is located in `/etc/mote/config.py`. The
configuration contains all configurable items for all mote services.
Alterations to configuration that aren't temporary should be done
through ansible playbooks. Configuration changes have no effect on
running services -- they need to be restarted, which can be done using
the playbook.

== Database

mote does not currently utilise any databases, although it uses a file
store in Fedora Infrastructure and has an optional memcached store which
is currently unused.

== Managing mote

mote is ran using mod_wsgi and httpd, hence, you must manage the `httpd`
service to change mote's status.

== Suspespending mote operation

mote can be stopped by stopping the `httpd` service:

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service httpd stop
....

== Changing mote's name and category definitions

mote uses a set of JSON name and category definitions to provide
friendly names, aliases, and listings on its interface. These
definitions can be located in mote's GitHub repository, and need to be
pulled into ansible in order to be deployed.

These files are `name_mappings.json` and `category_mappings.json`. To
deploy an update to these definitions, place the updated name and
category mapping files in `ansible/roles/mote/templates`. Run the
playbook in order to deploy your changes.