convore.json/groups/epio/rant-writable-storage-configuration-sucks/messages.json

[{"user_id": 1081, "stars": [], "topic_id": 38404, "date_created": 1307418412.9935319, "message": "oh and you know what sucks, making one change to my setting and then waiting on ep.io upload to finish uploading everything all over again, and creating a new bundle, etc, etc.", "group_id": 2873, "id": 1316668}, {"user_id": 1081, "stars": [], "topic_id": 38404, "date_created": 1307418442.034893, "message": "obligatory </rant>, sorry guys, ep.io has been fantastic with everything else, but this is what i find most frustrating", "group_id": 2873, "id": 1316670}, {"user_id": 1081, "stars": [], "topic_id": 38404, "date_created": 1307418369.4663939, "message": "This is probably unwarranted and just a damn rant, but configuring my django apps to user writable storage is the hardest thing about ep.io yet.  I guess its only me, but for the apps i've deployed, i've had to do a lot of guess work, trying one setting or the other.  yeah, yeah i know its supposed to live at '../data/' but tell django-filebrowser that...", "group_id": 2873, "id": 1316666}, {"user_id": 1081, "stars": [], "topic_id": 38404, "date_created": 1307418503.6437221, "message": "and i'll know you'll probably tell me to go try djangozoom, gondor or something, else .. but guess what I like ep.io, and i'm sticking here ... I'll somehow figure it out.", "group_id": 2873, "id": 1316672}, {"user_id": 8740, "stars": [{"date_created": 1307451897.9091811, "user_id": 1081}, {"date_created": 1308409622.8695979, "user_id": 8391}], "topic_id": 38404, "date_created": 1307427927.248127, "message": "Perhaps the best option would be to offer an environment variable or something with the full path?", "group_id": 2873, "id": 1317480}, {"user_id": 8740, "stars": [{"date_created": 1308409606.452462, "user_id": 8391}], "topic_id": 38404, "date_created": 1307427851.6249881, "message": "Well, we'd love to hear what other options you think are feasible - there's not very many ways we can make it easier IMO, without making the entire app writable, and that just isn't going to work at scale (which is why all other large hosts of this fashion do the same thing, or just don't offer writable storage at all).", "group_id": 2873, "id": 1317479}, {"user_id": 29682, "stars": [], "topic_id": 38404, "date_created": 1307435870.1283171, "message": "What about making the path available in the bundle_config.config object, if it isn't already?", "group_id": 2873, "id": 1318302}, {"user_id": 27715, "stars": [{"date_created": 1307451974.7105, "user_id": 1081}], "topic_id": 38404, "date_created": 1307436000.376081, "message": "@bradwhittington great idea! I would love to replace \"STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT, '..', '..', 'data', 'static')\" with \"STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(config['data_path'], 'static')\" or something.", "group_id": 2873, "id": 1318319}, {"user_id": 8740, "stars": [{"date_created": 1307451915.0539811, "user_id": 1081}, {"date_created": 1308460419.8791001, "user_id": 214}, {"date_created": 1308771926.449903, "user_id": 21209}], "topic_id": 38404, "date_created": 1307437864.232939, "message": "Yeah, thinking about it, we really should expose this in bundle_config. I'll make sure that gets rolled out in the next backend release.", "group_id": 2873, "id": 1318524}, {"user_id": 1081, "stars": [], "topic_id": 38404, "date_created": 1307451928.1766231, "message": "@andrewgodwin awesome, i think that would be great", "group_id": 2873, "id": 1320446}, {"user_id": 1772, "stars": [{"date_created": 1308453736.5218949, "user_id": 1081}], "topic_id": 38404, "date_created": 1308404827.2636671, "message": "awesome indeed, I was just facing the same issue and something in bundle_config.config would definitely help.", "group_id": 2873, "id": 1426635}]