Freezing Saddles Technology – 2019 Thread

[obscurerichard]

I thought perhaps a thread for the technology team might be in order.

This year we’re managing the Freezing Saddles software (hosted on GitHub) through a Project Kanban board. We’re communicating primarily through a Freezing Saddles Slack group. I’m leading the team this year and have been doing most of the programming and almost all of the operations, but I’m eager to teach others what they need to know. jrenaut has also contributed already this year (again! thank you!) and I’m looking forward to getting more active contributions from the other technology team members.

If you have a problem with the Freezing Saddles web site, you can post about it here, or add a note to the board or to the freezing-web issues.

We’ve made some good progress this year, after some initial hiccups in transition. hozn originally wrote software that runs the freezingsaddles.org site using Python, Flask, SQLAlchemy, Alembic, and some other frameworks, and last year he completed Dockerizing it. This year it runs on a Digital Ocean droplet that hozn is graciously footing the bill for again this season. Now the challenge is to finish up the team scoring

Freezing Saddles 2019 Kanban Board:
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[josh]

Didn’t know about https://freezingsaddles.org/my/rides.json

Pretty convenient for debugging/troubleshooting purposes.

[jrenaut]

@josh 188311 wrote:

Didn’t know about https://freezingsaddles.org/my/rides.json

Pretty convenient for debugging/troubleshooting purposes.

If you don’t have the database credentials, yeah

[LhasaCM]

@jrenaut 188310 wrote:

I requested to follow you on Strava but actually don’t need to, I figured it out. It is, once again, a function of time zones. Freezing Saddles counted your 2/19 ride as happening on 2/20 because we normalize to east coast time. I always forget – we count days based on local time where the ride happened, is that right?

I thought that got “fixed” this year to base everything on Eastern time.

[jrenaut]

@LhasaCM 188316 wrote:

I thought that got “fixed” this year to base everything on Eastern time.

Nothing involving computers and dates is ever “fixed”

[Edelweiss]

Chuck!

I am only asking about the actual Bicycle rides. My skiing has been recording separately.
Edelweiss

[bentbike33]

The leaderboard is still adding rides this morning. I thought we were done yesterday.

[cvcalhoun]

@bentbike33 189003 wrote:

The leaderboard is still adding rides this morning. I thought we were done yesterday.

Yeah, there is definitely a glitch. The leaderboard should add rides done yesterday but uploaded today. (This often happens with older Garmins that have to be uploaded manually.) It should not add today’s rides. But it is showing people as having ridden 79 days, so it’s clearly adding today’s rides.

[Jessica Hirschhorn]

Leaderboard shows me riding 78 days. I rode every day, which I believe is 79. Makes no difference to standings or team, but I want the “rode every day” pointless prize! Thanks. Regards, Jessica H.

[cvcalhoun]

@Jessica Hirschhorn 189025 wrote:

Leaderboard shows me riding 78 days. I rode every day, which I believe is 79. Makes no difference to standings or team, but I want the “rode every day” pointless prize! Thanks. Regards, Jessica H.

Riding every day would be 78. So the problem is not that it’s giving you too little credit, it’s that it’s giving other people too much. I presume that will be fixed shortly. But in any event, 78 days is “every day.”

[Jessica Hirschhorn]

Thank you, Carol. I will accept my prize. J.

[LhasaCM]

Should be fixed now (thanks, obscurerichard!!)

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[obscurerichard]

@bentbike33 189003 wrote:

The leaderboard is still adding rides this morning. I thought we were done yesterday.

It’s fixed now. I had put in the last day incorrectly and had to reset it back a day and delete the bogus rides.

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