[dist-bugs] Hello!

[Pierre Habouzit]

On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 07:26:01PM +0000, Jesse Vincent wrote:
> Mostly, that number was drawn out of a hat. There's nothing fundamentally 
> 'wrong' with Prophet which will keep it from scaling far larger, but I 
> mostly wanted to impress upon people that distributed tools need to scale 
> differently than monolithic, centralized tools and that Prophet isn't 
> trying to take on BigTable, MySQL, Postgres and Oracle.  (It also doesn't 
> help that we're not done with our query indexing support, so searching 
> 500,000 bugs might take a few minutes.)
> 
> I wouldn't expect that there are many folks who would want to mirror all 
> of the Debian BTS onto their laptops.   It's much more important, I 
> think, to make it easy to mirror the bits you care about and resync 
> whenever and wherever you choose.

  Clearly, OTOH you want some reference repositories to be publicly
available, the ones people fetch from. And those setup should not
require a 100k€ machine to do the work ;P

  And FWIW, it's important to be able to sync with subparts of a DBTS
that you don't *yet* know about. For the Debian bugtracker I would
probably want to sync on my laptop something that looks like:

  * bugs that I submitted ;
  * bugs for packages I maintain ;
  * some other bugs that I asked to track specifically.

  (1) and (2) are moving targets, hence it means that the remote side
has to be clever enough about its storage to extract what I care about
fast :)
-- 
·O·  Pierre Habouzit
··O                                                madcoder at debian.org
OOO                                                http://www.madism.org
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