user, topic, project, label, milestone, repository, pull_request,
release, asset, comment, reaction, review providers
Signed-off-by: Earl Warren <contact@earl-warren.org>
Preserve file size when creating attachments
Introduced in c6f5029708
repoList.LoadAttributes has a ctx argument now
Rename `repo.GetOwner` to `repo.LoadOwner`
bd66fa586a
upgrade to the latest gof3
(cherry picked from commit c770713656)
[F3] ID remapping logic is in place, remove workaround
(cherry picked from commit d0fee30167)
[F3] it is experimental, do not enable by default
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[F3] promote F3 users to matching OAuth2 users on first sign-in
(cherry picked from commit bd7fef7496)
(cherry picked from commit 07412698e8)
(cherry picked from commit d143e5b2a3)
[F3] upgrade to gof3 50a6e740ac04
Add new methods GetIDString() & SetIDString() & ToFormatInterface()
Change the prototype of the fixture function
(cherry picked from commit d7b263ff8b)
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[F3] add GetLocalMatchingRemote with a default implementation
(cherry picked from commit 0a22015039)
(cherry picked from commit f1310c38fb)
(cherry picked from commit deb68552f2)
[F3] GetLocalMatchingRemote for user
(cherry picked from commit e73cb837f5)
(cherry picked from commit a24bc0b85e)
(cherry picked from commit 846a522ecc)
[F3] GetAdminUser now has a ctx argument
(cherry picked from commit 37357a92af)
(cherry picked from commit 660bc1673c)
(cherry picked from commit 72d692a767)
[F3] introduce UserTypeF3
To avoid conflicts should UserTypeRemoteUser be used differently by Gitea
(cherry picked from commit 6de2701bb3)
[F3] user.Put: idempotency
(cherry picked from commit 821e38573c)
(cherry picked from commit f7638f5414)
[F3] upgrade to urfave v2
(cherry picked from commit cc3dbdfd1d)
[F3] update gof3
(cherry picked from commit 2eee960751)
[F3] move f3 under forgejo-cli
* simplify the tests by re-using the forgejo-cli helpers to capture
the output
* unify CmdF3 to be structured in the same way CmdActions is
(cherry picked from commit 4c9fe58b74)
[F3] replace f3 with forgejo-cli f3
(cherry picked from commit 7ba7ceef1b)
[F3] s/ListOptions/Paginator/
[F3] user: add unit tests
[F3] user comparison of F3 managed users is on content
[F3] issue: add unit tests
[F3] gof3 now has one more argument to Put()
[F3] re-use gof3 unit tests for the driver
(cherry picked from commit af7ee6200c)
Conflicts:
tests/integration/integration_test.go
because of some code removed in forgejo-development, trivial
context conflict resolution
[F3] more idempotent tests (#1275)
Reviewed-on: https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/pulls/1275
Co-authored-by: Loïc Dachary <loic@dachary.org>
Co-committed-by: Loïc Dachary <loic@dachary.org>
[F3] tests: do SQL update if nothing changes
[F3] tests comment idempotence
[F3] tests milestone idempotence
[F3] tests pull_request idempotence
[F3] tests release idempotence
[F3] tests asset idempotence
[F3] tests project idempotence
[F3] tests review idempotence
(cherry picked from commit 91038bb4e8)
(cherry picked from commit a7d2a65214)
(cherry picked from commit 59a17e5a34)
[F3] sub command of forgejo-cli
(cherry picked from commit 4d098e9b83)
[F3] implement --quiet, --debug, --verbose
(cherry picked from commit 82e2e17b45)
[F3] fix off by one error when importing repositories
(cherry picked from commit 31689b1397)
[F3] upgrade gof3
(cherry picked from commit 87b8cfe5a1)
[F3] set the logger for all drivers
The logger is set for the local Forgejo driver only. Even when --debug
is specified, the other drivers do not display debug
information. Use the gof3 context to set the logger for all of them at
once.
(cherry picked from commit 8aa7de8ba0)
[F3] the closed date of an issue may be nil
(cherry picked from commit 93d3eaf0b5)
[F3] update gof3 to support system users
there now is a workaround to hardcode system users when they are not
supported by the API
(cherry picked from commit 915484daa7)
(cherry picked from commit b47ac73b8a)
[F3] upgrade gof3 with a version that can deal with system users
When they are missing from what the API returns, it will replace the
missing user with the Ghost user instead of leaving it be a null pointer.
(cherry picked from commit 9eeeab7f8e)
[F3] tests do not need a running Forgejo server
(cherry picked from commit b2b9749ac9)
[F3] upgrade gof3 to correctly fetch PRs from forks
(cherry picked from commit d2448de302)
[F3] upgrade gof3 to resolve incorrect object ID mappings
(cherry picked from commit af8c9de89f)
[F3] mirroring a repository needs --mirror instead of --bare
(cherry picked from commit 9941131920)
[F3] PR create the pull/N/head from the original PR head
It is incorrect to assume they are identical because:
* the IDs of a PR may be remapped and pull/N/head will become
pull/M/head
* the head of a remote fork is a branch named after the fork
(cherry picked from commit 9c220bf23e)
[F3] gof3 upgrade with non overlapping PR references
(cherry picked from commit f1b2f82e7e)
[F3] refactor issue insertion to preserve the creation date
issues_model.NewIssue() is convenient but will override the creation
date. Update the database instead.
(cherry picked from commit 729f4be1e4)
[F3] gof3 upgrade to get performance improvements
(cherry picked from commit 996ac35d4d)
(cherry picked from commit 906e9eb3f5)
(cherry picked from commit c340e22197)
(cherry picked from commit bb0ed72e08)
(cherry picked from commit 500e640d6d)
[F3] TestForgeMethods needs to populate the database
(cherry picked from commit e6da71229f)
(cherry picked from commit e3bd088895)
(cherry picked from commit 2255136187)
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(cherry picked from commit 0345dd562d)
(cherry picked from commit 0f8821c1b1)
[F3] resolve
(cherry picked from commit 2acd211536)
(cherry picked from commit 704317c24e)
(cherry picked from commit b127296da6)
(cherry picked from commit 000b6f823e)
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(cherry picked from commit 13550cb0b5)
(cherry picked from commit 3b16d9e114)
(cherry picked from commit 1b0db139d6)
[F3] licenses
(cherry picked from commit 2bccd8c1ef)
(cherry picked from commit a92c48c8c2)
(cherry picked from commit 5ca8851224)
Mainly for MySQL/MSSQL.
It is important for Gitea to use case-sensitive database charset
collation. If the database is using a case-insensitive collation, Gitea
will show startup error/warning messages, and show the errors/warnings
on the admin panel's Self-Check page.
Make `gitea doctor convert` work for MySQL to convert the collations of
database & tables & columns.
* Fix#28131
## ⚠️ BREAKING ⚠️
It is not quite breaking, but it's highly recommended to convert the
database&table&column to a consistent and case-sensitive collation.
The 4 functions are duplicated, especially as interface methods. I think
we just need to keep `MustID` the only one and remove other 3.
```
MustID(b []byte) ObjectID
MustIDFromString(s string) ObjectID
NewID(b []byte) (ObjectID, error)
NewIDFromString(s string) (ObjectID, error)
```
Introduced the new interfrace method `ComputeHash` which will replace
the interface `HasherInterface`. Now we don't need to keep two
interfaces.
Reintroduced `git.NewIDFromString` and `git.MustIDFromString`. The new
function will detect the hash length to decide which objectformat of it.
If it's 40, then it's SHA1. If it's 64, then it's SHA256. This will be
right if the commitID is a full one. So the parameter should be always a
full commit id.
@AdamMajer Please review.
Refactor Hash interfaces and centralize hash function. This will allow
easier introduction of different hash function later on.
This forms the "no-op" part of the SHA256 enablement patch.
1. Do not sort the "checks" slice again and again when "Register", it
just wastes CPU when the Gitea instance runs
2. If a check doesn't exist, tell the end user
3. Add some tests
Hi,
This PR fixes#27988. The use of `path.join`(which uses `/` as the file
separator) to construct paths and comparing them with paths constructed
using `filepath.join`(which uses platform specific file separator) is
the root cause of this issue.
The desired behavior is to ignore attachments when dumping data
directory. Due to the what's mentioned above, the function
`addRecursiveExclude` is not actually ignoring the attachments directory
and is being written to the archive. The attachment directory is again
added to the archive (with different file separator as mentioned in the
issue) causing a duplicate entry on windows.
The solution is to use `filepath.join` in `addResursiveExclude` to
construct `currentAbsPath`.
The steps to reproduce it.
First, create a new oauth2 source.
Then, a user login with this oauth2 source.
Disable the oauth2 source.
Visit users -> settings -> security, 500 will be displayed.
This is because this page only load active Oauth2 sources but not all
Oauth2 sources.
This PR removed `unittest.MainTest` the second parameter
`TestOptions.GiteaRoot`. Now it detects the root directory by current
working directory.
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Co-authored-by: wxiaoguang <wxiaoguang@gmail.com>
Part of #27065
This reduces the usage of `db.DefaultContext`. I think I've got enough
files for the first PR. When this is merged, I will continue working on
this.
Considering how many files this PR affect, I hope it won't take to long
to merge, so I don't end up in the merge conflict hell.
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Co-authored-by: wxiaoguang <wxiaoguang@gmail.com>
Follow the CLI refactoring
1. Remove the "checkCommandFlags" helper
2. Unify the web startup message, make them have consistent names as `./gitea help`
3. Fine tune some other messages (see the diff)
We are now:
- Making sure there is no existing access token with the same name
- Making sure the given scopes are valid (we already did this before but
now we have a message)
The logic is mostly taken from
a12a5f3652/routers/api/v1/user/app.go (L101-L123)Closes#26044
Signed-off-by: Yarden Shoham <git@yardenshoham.com>
Replace #21790
And close#25965 by the way (it needs a separate fix for 1.20)
Major changes:
1. Move "gitea convert" to "gitea doctor conver". The old "gitea doctor"
still works as a hidden sub-command (to avoid breaking)
2. Do not write "doctor.log" by default, it's not useful in most cases
and causes bugs like 25965
3. Improve documents
4. Fix the "help" commands. Before, the "./gitea doctor" can't show the
sub-command help correctly (regression of the last cli/v2 refactoring)
After this PR:
```
./gitea help # show all sub-commands for the app
./gitea doctor # show the sub-commands for the "doctor"
./gitea doctor help # show the sub-commands for the "doctor", as above
```
Replace #25892
Close #21942
Close #25464
Major changes:
1. Serve "robots.txt" and ".well-known/security.txt" in the "public"
custom path
* All files in "public/.well-known" can be served, just like
"public/assets"
3. Add a test for ".well-known/security.txt"
4. Simplify the "FileHandlerFunc" logic, now the paths are consistent so
the code can be simpler
5. Add CORS header for ".well-known" endpoints
6. Add logs to tell users they should move some of their legacy custom
public files
```
2023/07/19 13:00:37 cmd/web.go:178:serveInstalled() [E] Found legacy public asset "img" in CustomPath. Please move it to /work/gitea/custom/public/assets/img
2023/07/19 13:00:37 cmd/web.go:182:serveInstalled() [E] Found legacy public asset "robots.txt" in CustomPath. Please move it to /work/gitea/custom/public/robots.txt
```
This PR is not breaking.
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Co-authored-by: silverwind <me@silverwind.io>
Co-authored-by: Giteabot <teabot@gitea.io>
Replace #10912
And there are many new tests to cover the CLI behavior
There were some concerns about the "option order in hook scripts"
(https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/pull/10912#issuecomment-1137543314),
it's not a problem now. Because the hook script uses `/gitea hook
--config=/app.ini pre-receive` format. The "config" is a global option,
it can appear anywhere.
----
## ⚠️ BREAKING ⚠️
This PR does it best to avoid breaking anything. The major changes are:
* `gitea` itself won't accept web's options: `--install-port` / `--pid`
/ `--port` / `--quiet` / `--verbose` .... They are `web` sub-command's
options.
* Use `./gitea web --pid ....` instead
* `./gitea` can still run the `web` sub-command as shorthand, with
default options
* The sub-command's options must follow the sub-command
* Before: `./gitea --sub-opt subcmd` might equal to `./gitea subcmd
--sub-opt` (well, might not ...)
* After: only `./gitea subcmd --sub-opt` could be used
* The global options like `--config` are not affected
Bumping `github.com/golang-jwt/jwt` from v4 to v5.
`github.com/golang-jwt/jwt` v5 is bringing some breaking changes:
- standard `Valid()` method on claims is removed. It's replaced by
`ClaimsValidator` interface implementing `Validator()` method instead,
which is called after standard validation. Gitea doesn't seem to be
using this logic.
- `jwt.Token` has a field `Valid`, so it's checked in `ParseToken`
function in `services/auth/source/oauth2/token.go`
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Co-authored-by: Giteabot <teabot@gitea.io>
More fix for #24981
* #24981Close#22361
* #22361
There were many patches for Gitea's sub-commands to satisfy the facts:
* Some sub-commands shouldn't output any log, otherwise the git protocol
would be broken
* Sometimes the users want to see "verbose" or "quiet" outputs
That's a longstanding problem, and very fragile. This PR is only a quick
patch for the problem.
In the future, the sub-command system should be refactored to a clear
solution.
----
Other changes:
* Use `ReplaceAllWriters` to replace
`RemoveAllWriters().AddWriters(writer)`, then it's an atomic operation.
* Remove unnecessary `syncLevelInternal` calls, because
`AddWriters/addWritersInternal` already calls it.
Co-authored-by: Giteabot <teabot@gitea.io>
# The problem
There were many "path tricks":
* By default, Gitea uses its program directory as its work path
* Gitea tries to use the "work path" to guess its "custom path" and
"custom conf (app.ini)"
* Users might want to use other directories as work path
* The non-default work path should be passed to Gitea by GITEA_WORK_DIR
or "--work-path"
* But some Gitea processes are started without these values
* The "serv" process started by OpenSSH server
* The CLI sub-commands started by site admin
* The paths are guessed by SetCustomPathAndConf again and again
* The default values of "work path / custom path / custom conf" can be
changed when compiling
# The solution
* Use `InitWorkPathAndCommonConfig` to handle these path tricks, and use
test code to cover its behaviors.
* When Gitea's web server runs, write the WORK_PATH to "app.ini", this
value must be the most correct one, because if this value is not right,
users would find that the web UI doesn't work and then they should be
able to fix it.
* Then all other sub-commands can use the WORK_PATH in app.ini to
initialize their paths.
* By the way, when Gitea starts for git protocol, it shouldn't output
any log, otherwise the git protocol gets broken and client blocks
forever.
The "work path" priority is: WORK_PATH in app.ini > cmd arg --work-path
> env var GITEA_WORK_DIR > builtin default
The "app.ini" searching order is: cmd arg --config > cmd arg "work path
/ custom path" > env var "work path / custom path" > builtin default
## ⚠️ BREAKING
If your instance's "work path / custom path / custom conf" doesn't meet
the requirements (eg: work path must be absolute), Gitea will report a
fatal error and exit. You need to set these values according to the
error log.
----
Close#24818Close#24222Close#21606Close#21498Close#25107Close#24981
Maybe close#24503
Replace #23301
Replace #22754
And maybe more
That's a longstanding INI package problem: the "MustXxx" calls change
the option values, and the following "Save" will save a lot of garbage
options into the user's config file.
Ideally we should refactor the INI package to a clear solution, but it's
a huge work.
A clear workaround is what this PR does: when "Save", load a clear INI
instance and save it.
Partially fix#25377, the "install" page needs more fine tunes.
1. The "web" package shouldn't depends on "modules/context" package,
instead, let each "web context" register themselves to the "web"
package.
2. The old Init/Free doesn't make sense, so simplify it
* The ctx in "Init(ctx)" is never used, and shouldn't be used that way
* The "Free" is never called and shouldn't be called because the SSPI
instance is shared
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Follow up #22405Fix#20703
This PR rewrites storage configuration read sequences with some breaks
and tests. It becomes more strict than before and also fixed some
inherit problems.
- Move storage's MinioConfig struct into setting, so after the
configuration loading, the values will be stored into the struct but not
still on some section.
- All storages configurations should be stored on one section,
configuration items cannot be overrided by multiple sections. The
prioioty of configuration is `[attachment]` > `[storage.attachments]` |
`[storage.customized]` > `[storage]` > `default`
- For extra override configuration items, currently are `SERVE_DIRECT`,
`MINIO_BASE_PATH`, `MINIO_BUCKET`, which could be configured in another
section. The prioioty of the override configuration is `[attachment]` >
`[storage.attachments]` > `default`.
- Add more tests for storages configurations.
- Update the storage documentations.
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Co-authored-by: wxiaoguang <wxiaoguang@gmail.com>
This PR replaces all string refName as a type `git.RefName` to make the
code more maintainable.
Fix#15367
Replaces #23070
It also fixed a bug that tags are not sync because `git remote --prune
origin` will not remove local tags if remote removed.
We in fact should use `git fetch --prune --tags origin` but not `git
remote update origin` to do the sync.
Some answer from ChatGPT as ref.
> If the git fetch --prune --tags command is not working as expected,
there could be a few reasons why. Here are a few things to check:
>
>Make sure that you have the latest version of Git installed on your
system. You can check the version by running git --version in your
terminal. If you have an outdated version, try updating Git and see if
that resolves the issue.
>
>Check that your Git repository is properly configured to track the
remote repository's tags. You can check this by running git config
--get-all remote.origin.fetch and verifying that it includes
+refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*. If it does not, you can add it by running git
config --add remote.origin.fetch "+refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*".
>
>Verify that the tags you are trying to prune actually exist on the
remote repository. You can do this by running git ls-remote --tags
origin to list all the tags on the remote repository.
>
>Check if any local tags have been created that match the names of tags
on the remote repository. If so, these local tags may be preventing the
git fetch --prune --tags command from working properly. You can delete
local tags using the git tag -d command.
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Co-authored-by: delvh <dev.lh@web.de>
Fix#24856
Rename "context.contextKey" to "context.WebContextKey", this context is
for web context only. But the Context itself is not renamed, otherwise
it would cause a lot of changes (if we really want to rename it, there
could be a separate PR).
The old test code doesn't really test, the "install page" gets broken
not only one time, so use new test code to make sure the "install page"
could work.
## ⚠️ Breaking
The `log.<mode>.<logger>` style config has been dropped. If you used it,
please check the new config manual & app.example.ini to make your
instance output logs as expected.
Although many legacy options still work, it's encouraged to upgrade to
the new options.
The SMTP logger is deleted because SMTP is not suitable to collect logs.
If you have manually configured Gitea log options, please confirm the
logger system works as expected after upgrading.
## Description
Close#12082 and maybe more log-related issues, resolve some related
FIXMEs in old code (which seems unfixable before)
Just like rewriting queue #24505 : make code maintainable, clear legacy
bugs, and add the ability to support more writers (eg: JSON, structured
log)
There is a new document (with examples): `logging-config.en-us.md`
This PR is safer than the queue rewriting, because it's just for
logging, it won't break other logic.
## The old problems
The logging system is quite old and difficult to maintain:
* Unclear concepts: Logger, NamedLogger, MultiChannelledLogger,
SubLogger, EventLogger, WriterLogger etc
* Some code is diffuclt to konw whether it is right:
`log.DelNamedLogger("console")` vs `log.DelNamedLogger(log.DEFAULT)` vs
`log.DelLogger("console")`
* The old system heavily depends on ini config system, it's difficult to
create new logger for different purpose, and it's very fragile.
* The "color" trick is difficult to use and read, many colors are
unnecessary, and in the future structured log could help
* It's difficult to add other log formats, eg: JSON format
* The log outputer doesn't have full control of its goroutine, it's
difficult to make outputer have advanced behaviors
* The logs could be lost in some cases: eg: no Fatal error when using
CLI.
* Config options are passed by JSON, which is quite fragile.
* INI package makes the KEY in `[log]` section visible in `[log.sub1]`
and `[log.sub1.subA]`, this behavior is quite fragile and would cause
more unclear problems, and there is no strong requirement to support
`log.<mode>.<logger>` syntax.
## The new design
See `logger.go` for documents.
## Screenshot
<details>
</details>
## TODO
* [x] add some new tests
* [x] fix some tests
* [x] test some sub-commands (manually ....)
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Co-authored-by: Jason Song <i@wolfogre.com>
Co-authored-by: delvh <dev.lh@web.de>
Co-authored-by: Giteabot <teabot@gitea.io>
# ⚠️ Breaking
Many deprecated queue config options are removed (actually, they should
have been removed in 1.18/1.19).
If you see the fatal message when starting Gitea: "Please update your
app.ini to remove deprecated config options", please follow the error
messages to remove these options from your app.ini.
Example:
```
2023/05/06 19:39:22 [E] Removed queue option: `[indexer].ISSUE_INDEXER_QUEUE_TYPE`. Use new options in `[queue.issue_indexer]`
2023/05/06 19:39:22 [E] Removed queue option: `[indexer].UPDATE_BUFFER_LEN`. Use new options in `[queue.issue_indexer]`
2023/05/06 19:39:22 [F] Please update your app.ini to remove deprecated config options
```
Many options in `[queue]` are are dropped, including:
`WRAP_IF_NECESSARY`, `MAX_ATTEMPTS`, `TIMEOUT`, `WORKERS`,
`BLOCK_TIMEOUT`, `BOOST_TIMEOUT`, `BOOST_WORKERS`, they can be removed
from app.ini.
# The problem
The old queue package has some legacy problems:
* complexity: I doubt few people could tell how it works.
* maintainability: Too many channels and mutex/cond are mixed together,
too many different structs/interfaces depends each other.
* stability: due to the complexity & maintainability, sometimes there
are strange bugs and difficult to debug, and some code doesn't have test
(indeed some code is difficult to test because a lot of things are mixed
together).
* general applicability: although it is called "queue", its behavior is
not a well-known queue.
* scalability: it doesn't seem easy to make it work with a cluster
without breaking its behaviors.
It came from some very old code to "avoid breaking", however, its
technical debt is too heavy now. It's a good time to introduce a better
"queue" package.
# The new queue package
It keeps using old config and concept as much as possible.
* It only contains two major kinds of concepts:
* The "base queue": channel, levelqueue, redis
* They have the same abstraction, the same interface, and they are
tested by the same testing code.
* The "WokerPoolQueue", it uses the "base queue" to provide "worker
pool" function, calls the "handler" to process the data in the base
queue.
* The new code doesn't do "PushBack"
* Think about a queue with many workers, the "PushBack" can't guarantee
the order for re-queued unhandled items, so in new code it just does
"normal push"
* The new code doesn't do "pause/resume"
* The "pause/resume" was designed to handle some handler's failure: eg:
document indexer (elasticsearch) is down
* If a queue is paused for long time, either the producers blocks or the
new items are dropped.
* The new code doesn't do such "pause/resume" trick, it's not a common
queue's behavior and it doesn't help much.
* If there are unhandled items, the "push" function just blocks for a
few seconds and then re-queue them and retry.
* The new code doesn't do "worker booster"
* Gitea's queue's handlers are light functions, the cost is only the
go-routine, so it doesn't make sense to "boost" them.
* The new code only use "max worker number" to limit the concurrent
workers.
* The new "Push" never blocks forever
* Instead of creating more and more blocking goroutines, return an error
is more friendly to the server and to the end user.
There are more details in code comments: eg: the "Flush" problem, the
strange "code.index" hanging problem, the "immediate" queue problem.
Almost ready for review.
TODO:
* [x] add some necessary comments during review
* [x] add some more tests if necessary
* [x] update documents and config options
* [x] test max worker / active worker
* [x] re-run the CI tasks to see whether any test is flaky
* [x] improve the `handleOldLengthConfiguration` to provide more
friendly messages
* [x] fine tune default config values (eg: length?)
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