create a ”status“ page

[myrdd]

The status page (about:requestpolicy?status) should contain:

• the full RP version string (e.g. 1.0.beta13.2.2448.r2f5182f6d.pre)
• status of the storage migration to the WebExtension-side (compare [WebExtension port] data migration, import/export, v0 rules #892), i.e., if both sides are in sync and everything is okay

from time to time, more status info can be added to the page, e.g. error logs (compare #5).

[shirishag75]

could you also add to Readme.md that npm is also needed besides nodejs. At least in debian, nodejs and npm are two different packages. Just tried to run 'make' but failed due to npm not being installed.

~/games/requestpolicy$ make
npm install
/bin/bash: npm: command not found
make: *** [Makefile:351: node_modules/.timestamp_packages] Error 127

[myrdd]

npm is also needed besides nodejs

you're right, I've added it to the readme.

[shirishag75]

it should also detail also what a typical make run should look like -

~/games/requestpolicy$ make 
npm install
npm WARN tar write after end
npm WARN requestpolicy No repository field.
npm WARN requestpolicy No license field.

added 1310 packages from 804 contributors in 22.022s
touch node_modules/.timestamp_packages
/home/shirish/games/requestpolicy/node_modules/.bin/gulp xpi:nightly
[12:36:49] Using gulpfile ~/games/requestpolicy/gulpfile.js
[12:36:49] Starting 'clean:legacy:nightly'...
[12:36:49] Starting 'versionData:uniqueVersionSuffix'...
[12:36:49] Finished 'clean:legacy:nightly' after 8.47 ms
[12:36:49] Starting 'build:legacy:nightly:copiedFiles'...
[12:36:49] Finished 'versionData:uniqueVersionSuffix' after 30 ms
[12:36:49] Starting 'versionData:uniqueVersion'...
[12:36:49] Finished 'versionData:uniqueVersion' after 77 μs
[12:36:49] Starting 'buildData:legacy:nightly:preprocessContext'...
[12:36:49] Finished 'buildData:legacy:nightly:preprocessContext' after 6.32 ms
[12:36:49] Starting 'build:legacy:nightly:xmlTypePreprocessedFiles'...
[12:36:49] Starting 'build:legacy:nightly:jsTypePreprocessedFiles'...
[12:36:49] Starting 'build:legacy:nightly:js:main'...
[12:36:49] Starting 'build:legacy:nightly:js:embedded-we'...
[12:36:50] Finished 'build:legacy:nightly:xmlTypePreprocessedFiles' after 1.04 s
[12:36:50] Finished 'build:legacy:nightly:js:embedded-we' after 1.02 s
[12:36:51] Finished 'build:legacy:nightly:jsTypePreprocessedFiles' after 1.96 s
[12:36:51] Finished 'build:legacy:nightly:copiedFiles' after 2.51 s
[12:36:53] Finished 'build:legacy:nightly:js:main' after 3.78 s
[12:36:53] Starting 'build:legacy:nightly'...
[12:36:53] Finished 'build:legacy:nightly' after 34 μs
[12:36:53] Starting 'xpi:legacy:nightly'...
[12:36:53] Finished 'xpi:legacy:nightly' after 160 ms
[12:36:53] Starting 'xpi:nightly'...
[12:36:53] Finished 'xpi:nightly' after 5.1 μs

IIUC all the node modules are cached in ~/games/requestpolicy/node_modules

At my end -

~/games/requestpolicy/node_modules$ ls | wc -l
185

[myrdd]

@shirishag75 please create separate issues for such documentation-related things.

it should also detail also what a typical make run should look like

now documented here:
https://github.com/RequestPolicyContinued/requestpolicy/wiki/Building

btw I've added a sidebar to the wiki.