Need an indexing error reporting mechanism

cjlee112 / spnet

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http://thinking.bioinformatics.ucla.edu/2011/07/02/open-peer-review-by-a-selected-papers-network/

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Need an indexing error reporting mechanism #101

Open cjlee112 opened 10 years ago

cjlee112 commented 10 years ago

we need a way to report to users that spnet hit a problem while trying to index their post. Right now people get frustrated because their post vanishes into a black hole (doesn't get indexed) and they have no way to know why.

cjlee112 commented 10 years ago

basic proposal:

if index processing had no errors, save a "success" report, timestamped
if errors, save to report.
Old reports can be deleted from the db by a separate cleanup process.

schema:

post ID
source
author info
status: success or error
reported: flag whether reported to user
timestamp
error list: error code (for filter queries), text message (to explain problem to user and offer advice)

cjlee112 commented 10 years ago

user's page on spnet could either display or link to a view of any error reports for that user.

Could also have a error page that would display recent errors so we could pro-actively give advice back to the user, e.g. just copy-paste the advice message as a comment to the original post.