website: A little help running the website locally

website: A little help running the website locally

[Luis Felipe]

Hi,

I've never been able to build and run the internationalized website correctly following the instructions on the README. I even thought there was a typo in the instructions (https://issues.guix.gnu.org/47623), but it seems there is actually a particular problem on my side that I don't know how to resolve. So I could use a little help.

The problem seems to be that the instructions on the README expect a "$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locale" directory to exist, but it doesn't exist here. There is a "$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locales" directory instead (note the plural name).

I've tried building and running the website using the "locales" directory to work around the issue. It used to build most of the time, but with enconding issues. Running the website almost always failed with some error about invalid arguments to "setlocale"), so I used plane "haunt serve".

Currently, though, using guix 1f68568 and guix website f7ca68f, building fails for me everytime I run this:

★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★
$ GUIX_WEB_SITE_LOCAL=yes guix environment -C -m manifest.scm -E GUIX_LOCPATH -E LANG --share=$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locales -E GUIX_WEB_SITE_LOCAL --share=/tmp -- haunt build
guile: warning: failed to install locale
Backtrace:
           2 (primitive-load "/gnu/store/yzaxlqmiraznba4yf2cyqpyla9q?")
In haunt/ui.scm:
    131:2  1 (haunt-main _ "build")
In unknown file:
           0 (setlocale 6 "")

ERROR: In procedure setlocale:
In procedure setlocale: Invalid argument
★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★


So I haven't been able to work much on the website for a long time. I don't know what's going on...


---
Luis Felipe López Acevedo
https://luis-felipe.gitlab.io/

Re: website: A little help running the website locally

[Tissevert]

Hi !

I'm afraid I saw your message too late because I have exactly the same problems
you describe in https://issues.guix.gnu.org/47623 which you've just closed.

I too have no ~/.guix-profile/lib/locale but ~/.guix-profile/lib/locales exists
and allows the build to complete.  So I don't know but could this
~/.guix-profile/lib/locale with no trailing 's' be a left-over from a previous
version of some software that used to build it at that location or something ?
My install of guix is pretty recent (~3 months).

From what I understood from the original issue, I checked $GUIX_LOCPATH and saw
it contained only my current system's, /run/current-system/locale, which, when
shared in place of this hypothetical `locales?` in $HOME/.guix-profile also
allows haunt to build the site correctly (it produces something, reports
success, and browsing what it serves looks like the official website).

Hope that helps : )

Tissevert

Le Fri, May 21, 2021 at 01:53:43PM +0000, Luis Felipe a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> I've never been able to build and run the internationalized website correctly following the instructions on the README. I even thought there was a typo in the instructions (https://issues.guix.gnu.org/47623), but it seems there is actually a particular problem on my side that I don't know how to resolve. So I could use a little help.
> 
> The problem seems to be that the instructions on the README expect a "$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locale" directory to exist, but it doesn't exist here. There is a "$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locales" directory instead (note the plural name).
> 
> I've tried building and running the website using the "locales" directory to work around the issue. It used to build most of the time, but with enconding issues. Running the website almost always failed with some error about invalid arguments to "setlocale"), so I used plane "haunt serve".
> 
> Currently, though, using guix 1f68568 and guix website f7ca68f, building fails for me everytime I run this:
> 
> ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★
> $ GUIX_WEB_SITE_LOCAL=yes guix environment -C -m manifest.scm -E GUIX_LOCPATH -E LANG --share=$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locales -E GUIX_WEB_SITE_LOCAL --share=/tmp -- haunt build
> guile: warning: failed to install locale
> Backtrace:
>            2 (primitive-load "/gnu/store/yzaxlqmiraznba4yf2cyqpyla9q?")
> In haunt/ui.scm:
>     131:2  1 (haunt-main _ "build")
> In unknown file:
>            0 (setlocale 6 "")
> 
> ERROR: In procedure setlocale:
> In procedure setlocale: Invalid argument
> ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★
> 
> 
> So I haven't been able to work much on the website for a long time. I don't know what's going on...
> 
> 
> ---
> Luis Felipe López Acevedo
> https://luis-felipe.gitlab.io/
> 

Re: website: A little help running the website locally

[Julien Lepiller]

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Apart from breaking my system somewhat, I tried again, and I think you shouldn't pass -E GUIX_LOCPATH, because this will refer to something outside the environment. Instead, you should let the manifest set that for you. It will read po/LINGUAS to figure out which locales to bring in the environment.

Le 21 mai 2021 12:04:00 GMT-04:00, Tissevert <tissevert+guix@marvid.fr> a écrit :
>Hi !
>
>I'm afraid I saw your message too late because I have exactly the same
>problems
>you describe in https://issues.guix.gnu.org/47623 which you've just
>closed.
>
>I too have no ~/.guix-profile/lib/locale but
>~/.guix-profile/lib/locales exists
>and allows the build to complete.  So I don't know but could this
>~/.guix-profile/lib/locale with no trailing 's' be a left-over from a
>previous
>version of some software that used to build it at that location or
>something ?
>My install of guix is pretty recent (~3 months).
>
>From what I understood from the original issue, I checked $GUIX_LOCPATH
>and saw
>it contained only my current system's, /run/current-system/locale,
>which, when
>shared in place of this hypothetical `locales?` in $HOME/.guix-profile
>also
>allows haunt to build the site correctly (it produces something,
>reports
>success, and browsing what it serves looks like the official website).
>
>Hope that helps : )
>
>Tissevert
>
>Le Fri, May 21, 2021 at 01:53:43PM +0000, Luis Felipe a écrit :
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I've never been able to build and run the internationalized website
>correctly following the instructions on the README. I even thought
>there was a typo in the instructions
>(https://issues.guix.gnu.org/47623), but it seems there is actually a
>particular problem on my side that I don't know how to resolve. So I
>could use a little help.
>> 
>> The problem seems to be that the instructions on the README expect a
>"$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locale" directory to exist, but it doesn't
>exist here. There is a "$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locales" directory
>instead (note the plural name).
>> 
>> I've tried building and running the website using the "locales"
>directory to work around the issue. It used to build most of the time,
>but with enconding issues. Running the website almost always failed
>with some error about invalid arguments to "setlocale"), so I used
>plane "haunt serve".
>> 
>> Currently, though, using guix 1f68568 and guix website f7ca68f,
>building fails for me everytime I run this:
>> 
>> ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★
>> $ GUIX_WEB_SITE_LOCAL=yes guix environment -C -m manifest.scm -E
>GUIX_LOCPATH -E LANG --share=$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locales -E
>GUIX_WEB_SITE_LOCAL --share=/tmp -- haunt build
>> guile: warning: failed to install locale
>> Backtrace:
>>            2 (primitive-load
>"/gnu/store/yzaxlqmiraznba4yf2cyqpyla9q?")
>> In haunt/ui.scm:
>>     131:2  1 (haunt-main _ "build")
>> In unknown file:
>>            0 (setlocale 6 "")
>> 
>> ERROR: In procedure setlocale:
>> In procedure setlocale: Invalid argument
>> ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★
>> 
>> 
>> So I haven't been able to work much on the website for a long time. I
>don't know what's going on...
>> 
>> 
>> ---
>> Luis Felipe López Acevedo
>> https://luis-felipe.gitlab.io/
>> 

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Re: website: A little help running the website locally

[Tissevert]

Hey, it works here without -E GUIX_LOCPATH and without sharing any
'lib/locales?' file, system- or user-wide. Does that work for you too,
Luis-Felipe ?

If it does, should we entirely remove any mention of them in the build / serve
instructions in the README ?


Le Fri, May 21, 2021 at 12:38:26PM -0400, Julien Lepiller a écrit :
> Apart from breaking my system somewhat, I tried again, and I think you shouldn't pass -E GUIX_LOCPATH, because this will refer to something outside the environment. Instead, you should let the manifest set that for you. It will read po/LINGUAS to figure out which locales to bring in the environment.
> 

Re: website: A little help running the website locally

[Luis Felipe]

Hey :)


On Friday, May 21, 2021 4:04 PM, Tissevert <tissevert+guix@marvid.fr> wrote:

> Hi !
>
> I'm afraid I saw your message too late because I have exactly the same problems
> you describe in https://issues.guix.gnu.org/47623 which you've just closed.

It can be reopened if necessary, though.


> I too have no ~/.guix-profile/lib/locale but ~/.guix-profile/lib/locales exists
> and allows the build to complete. So I don't know but could this
> ~/.guix-profile/lib/locale with no trailing 's' be a left-over from a previous
> version of some software that used to build it at that location or something ?

I don't feel alone anymore :)


> My install of guix is pretty recent (~3 months).

My Guix System is more than a year old.


> From what I understood from the original issue, I checked $GUIX_LOCPATH and saw
> it contained only my current system's, /run/current-system/locale, which, when
> shared in place of this hypothetical `locales?` in $HOME/.guix-profile also
> allows haunt to build the site correctly (it produces something, reports
> success, and browsing what it serves looks like the official website).
>
> Hope that helps : )


I'm going to Guix pull, try without GUIX_LOCPATH as Julien suggests and without sharing the locales directory as you suggest, and then report back.

Re: website: A little help running the website locally

[Luis Felipe]

On Friday, May 21, 2021 4:48 PM, Tissevert <tissevert+guix@marvid.fr> wrote:

> Hey, it works here without -E GUIX_LOCPATH and without sharing any
> 'lib/locales?' file, system- or user-wide. Does that work for you too,
> Luis-Felipe ?

I'm using guix bd382fa now, and it fails in the same way. This is without preserving GUIX_LOCPATH:

★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★
$ GUIX_WEB_SITE_LOCAL=yes guix environment -C -m manifest.scm -E LANG --share=$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locales -E GUIX_WEB_SITE_LOCAL --share=/tmp -- haunt build
guile: warning: failed to install locale
Backtrace:
           2 (primitive-load "/gnu/store/vvys7f31iwaig3rabq190dlsg0x?")
In haunt/ui.scm:
    131:2  1 (haunt-main _ "build")
In unknown file:
           0 (setlocale 6 "")

ERROR: In procedure setlocale:
In procedure setlocale: Invalid argument
★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★


And this is without preserving GUIX_LOCPATH and without sharing the locales directory:

★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★
$ GUIX_WEB_SITE_LOCAL=yes guix environment -C -m manifest.scm -E LANG -E GUIX_WEB_SITE_LOCAL --share=/tmp -- haunt build
guile: warning: failed to install locale
Backtrace:
           2 (primitive-load "/gnu/store/vvys7f31iwaig3rabq190dlsg0x?")
In haunt/ui.scm:
    131:2  1 (haunt-main _ "build")
In unknown file:
           0 (setlocale 6 "")

ERROR: In procedure setlocale:
In procedure setlocale: Invalid argument
★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★


Tissevert, Julien, are you both using Guix System or Guix on foreign distribution? (I use the former).

Re: website: A little help running the website locally

[Julien Lepiller]

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It worked on both for me. Do you maybe have some local modifications that might explain why you can't build the website?

Le 21 mai 2021 14:12:25 GMT-04:00, Luis Felipe <luis.felipe.la@protonmail.com> a écrit :
>On Friday, May 21, 2021 4:48 PM, Tissevert <tissevert+guix@marvid.fr>
>wrote:
>
>> Hey, it works here without -E GUIX_LOCPATH and without sharing any
>> 'lib/locales?' file, system- or user-wide. Does that work for you
>too,
>> Luis-Felipe ?
>
>I'm using guix bd382fa now, and it fails in the same way. This is
>without preserving GUIX_LOCPATH:
>
>★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★
>$ GUIX_WEB_SITE_LOCAL=yes guix environment -C -m manifest.scm -E LANG
>--share=$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locales -E GUIX_WEB_SITE_LOCAL
>--share=/tmp -- haunt build
>guile: warning: failed to install locale
>Backtrace:
>           2 (primitive-load "/gnu/store/vvys7f31iwaig3rabq190dlsg0x?")
>In haunt/ui.scm:
>    131:2  1 (haunt-main _ "build")
>In unknown file:
>           0 (setlocale 6 "")
>
>ERROR: In procedure setlocale:
>In procedure setlocale: Invalid argument
>★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★
>
>
>And this is without preserving GUIX_LOCPATH and without sharing the
>locales directory:
>
>★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★
>$ GUIX_WEB_SITE_LOCAL=yes guix environment -C -m manifest.scm -E LANG
>-E GUIX_WEB_SITE_LOCAL --share=/tmp -- haunt build
>guile: warning: failed to install locale
>Backtrace:
>           2 (primitive-load "/gnu/store/vvys7f31iwaig3rabq190dlsg0x?")
>In haunt/ui.scm:
>    131:2  1 (haunt-main _ "build")
>In unknown file:
>           0 (setlocale 6 "")
>
>ERROR: In procedure setlocale:
>In procedure setlocale: Invalid argument
>★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★
>
>
>Tissevert, Julien, are you both using Guix System or Guix on foreign
>distribution? (I use the former).

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Re: website: A little help running the website locally

[Luis Felipe]

On Friday, May 21, 2021 6:17 PM, Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> wrote:

> It worked on both for me. Do you maybe have some local modifications that might explain why you can't build the website?

Not that I know of. I use guix from upstream, and I haven't changed my .bashrc and .profile in a very long time. And they don't contain anything related to locales, nor to Guile. I don't know what else to check...

Maybe I have to become French for the website to work :)

Re: website: A little help running the website locally

[Luis Felipe]

On Friday, May 21, 2021 6:33 PM, Luis Felipe <luis.felipe.la@protonmail.com> wrote:

> On Friday, May 21, 2021 6:17 PM, Julien Lepiller julien@lepiller.eu wrote:
>
> > It worked on both for me. Do you maybe have some local modifications that might explain why you can't build the website?
>
> Not that I know of. I use guix from upstream, and I haven't changed my .bashrc and .profile in a very long time. And they don't contain anything related to locales, nor to Guile. I don't know what else to check...
>
> Maybe I have to become French for the website to work :)

Oh, actually, it seems it is something along those lines. I just ran this:

★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★
LANG=C GUIX_WEB_SITE_LOCAL=yes guix environment -C -m manifest.scm -E LANG -E GUIX_WEB_SITE_LOCAL --share=/tmp -- haunt build
★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★

And the website builds. But if LANG is es_CO.utf8 (my user locale), then it fails again.

Re: website: A little help running the website locally

[Julien Lepiller]

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Mh, you might be right, maybe something in my environment that helps support French is passing through to the container and makes things work for me and not for you. Could it be your $LANG is not one in po/LINGUAS? What if you set it to en_US.UTF-8?

Instead of going back and forth by email, would you be willing to spend some time on BBB where you could share your screen, so we can explore together? If you're available we can do that in about 2 hours. Let me know and I'll send you a link.

Le 21 mai 2021 14:33:31 GMT-04:00, Luis Felipe <luis.felipe.la@protonmail.com> a écrit :
>On Friday, May 21, 2021 6:17 PM, Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>
>wrote:
>
>> It worked on both for me. Do you maybe have some local modifications
>that might explain why you can't build the website?
>
>Not that I know of. I use guix from upstream, and I haven't changed my
>.bashrc and .profile in a very long time. And they don't contain
>anything related to locales, nor to Guile. I don't know what else to
>check...
>
>Maybe I have to become French for the website to work :)

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Re: website: A little help running the website locally

[Luis Felipe]

On Friday, May 21, 2021 6:43 PM, Luis Felipe <luis.felipe.la@protonmail.com> wrote:

> On Friday, May 21, 2021 6:33 PM, Luis Felipe luis.felipe.la@protonmail.com wrote:
>
> > On Friday, May 21, 2021 6:17 PM, Julien Lepiller julien@lepiller.eu wrote:
> >
> > > It worked on both for me. Do you maybe have some local modifications that might explain why you can't build the website?
> >
> > Not that I know of. I use guix from upstream, and I haven't changed my .bashrc and .profile in a very long time. And they don't contain anything related to locales, nor to Guile. I don't know what else to check...
> > Maybe I have to become French for the website to work :)
>
> Oh, actually, it seems it is something along those lines. I just ran this:
>
> ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★
> LANG=C GUIX_WEB_SITE_LOCAL=yes guix environment -C -m manifest.scm -E LANG -E GUIX_WEB_SITE_LOCAL --share=/tmp -- haunt build
> ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★
>
> And the website builds. But if LANG is es_CO.utf8 (my user locale), then it fails again.

So, I tried again setting LANG=C and I noticed that while the website builds, the output has character enconding issues. For example what should be a right arrow in

copy 'static/media/css/video-preview.css' ? 'static/media/css/video-preview.css'

is replaced by a question mark.

However, if I set LANG=fr_FR.utf8, everything works correctly :)

Re: website: A little help running the website locally

[Luis Felipe]

On Friday, May 21, 2021 6:52 PM, Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> wrote:

> Mh, you might be right, maybe something in my environment that helps support French is passing through to the container and makes things work for me and not for you. Could it be your $LANG is not one in po/LINGUAS? What if you set it to en_US.UTF-8?

My language is es_CO, it is not in LINGUAS. Setting LANG to locales listed in LINGUAS makes it build correctly.


> Instead of going back and forth by email, would you be willing to spend some time on BBB where you could share your screen, so we can explore together? If you're available we can do that in about 2 hours. Let me know and I'll send you a link.

Yes, I can, if it is still necessary.

Re: website: A little help running the website locally

[Julien Lepiller]

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Ah no, I think we found the issue! So we should update the readme to not require passing GUIX_LOCPATH and set LANG to en_US.UTF-8 (or any other language listed in po/LINGUAS).

Le 21 mai 2021 15:02:03 GMT-04:00, Luis Felipe <luis.felipe.la@protonmail.com> a écrit :
>On Friday, May 21, 2021 6:52 PM, Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>
>wrote:
>
>> Mh, you might be right, maybe something in my environment that helps
>support French is passing through to the container and makes things
>work for me and not for you. Could it be your $LANG is not one in
>po/LINGUAS? What if you set it to en_US.UTF-8?
>
>My language is es_CO, it is not in LINGUAS. Setting LANG to locales
>listed in LINGUAS makes it build correctly.
>
>
>> Instead of going back and forth by email, would you be willing to
>spend some time on BBB where you could share your screen, so we can
>explore together? If you're available we can do that in about 2 hours.
>Let me know and I'll send you a link.
>
>Yes, I can, if it is still necessary.

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Re: website: A little help running the website locally

[Luis Felipe]

On Friday, May 21, 2021 7:24 PM, Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> wrote:

> Ah no, I think we found the issue! So we should update the readme to not require passing GUIX_LOCPATH and set LANG to en_US.UTF-8 (or any other language listed in po/LINGUAS).

Will you update the README, or should I sent a patch?

Re: website: A little help running the website locally

[Julien Lepiller]

Le Fri, 21 May 2021 19:28:38 +0000,
Luis Felipe <luis.felipe.la@protonmail.com> a écrit :

> On Friday, May 21, 2021 7:24 PM, Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>
> wrote:
> 
> > Ah no, I think we found the issue! So we should update the readme
> > to not require passing GUIX_LOCPATH and set LANG to en_US.UTF-8 (or
> > any other language listed in po/LINGUAS).  
> 
> Will you update the README, or should I sent a patch?

I updated the README, so it should now give you correct directions.
Thanks for reporting the issue and for your time while we tried
debugging this :)

Re: website: A little help running the website locally

[Luis Felipe]

On Saturday, May 22, 2021 3:46 PM, Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> wrote:

> Le Fri, 21 May 2021 19:28:38 +0000,
> Luis Felipe luis.felipe.la@protonmail.com a écrit :
>
> > On Friday, May 21, 2021 7:24 PM, Julien Lepiller julien@lepiller.eu
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Ah no, I think we found the issue! So we should update the readme
> > > to not require passing GUIX_LOCPATH and set LANG to en_US.UTF-8 (or
> > > any other language listed in po/LINGUAS).
> >
> > Will you update the README, or should I sent a patch?
>
> I updated the README, so it should now give you correct directions.
> Thanks for reporting the issue and for your time while we tried
> debugging this :)

こちらこそ、どうもありがとう、みんな！

Re: website: A little help running the website locally

[gauthier]

Just a heads up that due to this thread, I've been able to run the website locally too, that was one of my first realworld usage of guix, I'm slow on this journey, but I've started it :)

Regarding the website itself, I wanted to adjust the package page, so that it has a direct link to the package description from the github repository and I've not managed my guile foo (which is 0.00000001) enough to figure how to adjust the code already present in case of lint error.

Maybe a current maintainer can wipe such change faster than waiting for me to advance my journey, I think it would benefit the website users to have direct link to the .scm from the package description page, or even having it pretty printed right on the page ideally.

May 22, 2021 8:04 PM, "Luis Felipe" <luis.felipe.la@protonmail.com> wrote:

> On Saturday, May 22, 2021 3:46 PM, Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> wrote:
> 
>> Le Fri, 21 May 2021 19:28:38 +0000,
>> Luis Felipe luis.felipe.la@protonmail.com a écrit :
>> 
>> On Friday, May 21, 2021 7:24 PM, Julien Lepiller julien@lepiller.eu
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Ah no, I think we found the issue! So we should update the readme
>>> to not require passing GUIX_LOCPATH and set LANG to en_US.UTF-8 (or
>>> any other language listed in po/LINGUAS).
>> 
>> Will you update the README, or should I sent a patch?
>> 
>> I updated the README, so it should now give you correct directions.
>> Thanks for reporting the issue and for your time while we tried
>> debugging this :)
> 
> こちらこそ、どうもありがとう、みんな！

Re: website: A little help running the website locally

[Luis Felipe]

On Wednesday, May 26, 2021 1:46 PM, <gauthier@disroot.org> wrote:

> Just a heads up that due to this thread, I've been able to run the website locally too, that was one of my first realworld usage of guix, I'm slow on this journey, but I've started it :)

Great :)


> Regarding the website itself, I wanted to adjust the package page, so that it has a direct link to the package description from the github repository and I've not managed my guile foo (which is 0.00000001) enough to figure how to adjust the code already present in case of lint error.
>
> Maybe a current maintainer can wipe such change faster than waiting for me to advance my journey, I think it would benefit the website users to have direct link to the .scm from the package description page, or even having it pretty printed right on the page ideally.

I'm not sure I understand. I see that in the details page of a package there is a "Package source" field which links to the file and line where the package definition starts. See for example:

https://guix.gnu.org/en/packages/audacity-2.4.2/

Which links to audio.scm (https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/audio.scm#n683). Or is it that for some packages the link is not working?

In any case, I think it would be good to report any issue to the issue tracker (https://issues.guix.gnu.org/), if it isn't already reported.