Re: [boost] Slow Bugs Tracker

Subject: Re: [boost] Slow Bugs Tracker
From: Olaf van der Spek (ml_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-12-11 10:49:29

On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Olaf van der Spek <ml_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 1:48 AM, Lars Viklund <zao_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 01:30:13AM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Trac, the bugs tracker used, is really slow. Using it is a bad
>>> experience, every single time.
>>
>> There's nothing particularly wrong with Trac per se as I understand it.
>
> I've never seen a fast Trac instance.
>
>> It's more a matter of the resources available on the Boost servers vs.
>> the very high load placed on them.
>
> What resources are available and what kind of load is there?
>
>>> Would it be possible to use a better bugs tracker?
>>
>> Changing the bug tracker would break every single link made to it in the
>> wild, not to mention that migrating data from one tracker brand to
>> another brand is costly and non-trivial.
>
> True. One option might be to continue using the old one for existing bugs.
> Another option is to setup a forwarder to forward from the old to the
> new tracker to avoid broken links.
>
>> Any suggestion to migrate to another system (may it be build system,
>> version control system, bug tracking system), should have some
>> rudimentary measurements of the costs involved and the likely benefits
>> that would come out of it.
>
> I assume we agree on the performance problems of the current tracker, right?

Lars?

-- 
Olaf