1439993 - Remove COMPILE_DIR => setting from Bugzilla::Template when effective group != webservergroup to prevent filesystem permission errors

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(bugzilla.mozilla.org :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Adrian Florinescu [:aflorinescu]]

[Description:]
QA Eng. team uses the whining system to keep track of our various triage lists. There are about 16 whines that we are using configured as follows:

- Schedule - at midnight
- Several custom queries (1-2 searches per whine)
- alias + single emails

I also set a test whining earlier, to send whines every 15 minutes + a fixed schedule for 02-21-2018 05:00 PST, and nothing was received.

Comment 1

[Adrian Florinescu [:aflorinescu]]

Bumping up the severity to "blocker" since this issue is indeed a blocker for our triage process.

Comment 2

[Dylan Hardison [:dylan] (he/him)]

So something changed (maybe the feed daemon? Not sure) but basically template_cache/template/en/default/ was created with the wrong permissions. Apparently the behavior of the templating engine when it can't write out the compiled version of a template is to throw an exception. These exceptions get emailed (to me) but I didn't differentiate them from warnings.

In the mean time, the file permission issue is fixed and I'm going to remove the save-compiled-templates-to-dir option.
We don't make use of this feature in the web app portion (compiled templates are stored in RAM) anyway.

Comment 3

[:glob ✱]

Attachment: pr

Comment 4

[Adrian Florinescu [:aflorinescu]]

I am assuming this issue was tracking our use of the whining system, which is working properly after the fix. With that in mind, marking this as verified.