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Re: [Issue 1138] Changed - faster client concept

From: Philip Martin <philip_at_codematters.co.uk>
Date: 2003-03-02 21:34:27 CET

issues@subversion.tigris.org writes:

> http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1138
[...]
> ! | Status: REOPENED Version: current |
[...]
> + ------- Additional Comments From ford@tigris.org 2003-03-01 04:42 PST -------
> + this issue is a task to create a concept for a faster client. it is resolved
> + when we have the concept.

This suffers from the same problems as before: who decides when "we
have the concept"? What criteria do they use? Do they need to get
you approval that the concept is complete?

> + if i suggest to reduce the files and folders in the working copy and
> + rethink locking, cause the clients disk is blocked for 2min if you start a
> + svn operation, and the discussion on the list spreads up to 10 threads
> + and finally leads to "improve delta algorithm" then this is not leading to
> + anything.

I fail to see how reopening the issue helps.

> + therefor this task makes sense.

To you perhaps, I think it is an abuse of the issue tracker.

Putting your ideas into an issue attachment is very unfriendly. I get
a mail that tells me about it, but I can't directly read it. If I
want to read it I have to start a web browser, connect to the
Subversion web site (it's horribly slow here), and retrieve the
attachment. Even if I do that it's hard to reply to it.

I have just read your attachment, and I don't know what to think.
It's appears to be simply the same rough ideas as before. This time
with a claim that it will improve some unspecified quantity by 30%.
Amazing! I wish I could predict the behaviour of code that has not
been written with the same accuracy. I suppose if you don't specify
what you are measuring it gets a bit easier...

You also want to have a BDB implementation of the working copy admin
area. While this is possible I see no evidence that it will solve
your problem with the speed of working copies on network disks. Does
BDB even support your network filesystem? Have you any evidence that
it will be faster? Have you even considered the problems like backup,
log files, recovery?

You appear to be unwilling, or unable, to provide patches to implement
your ideas, therefore you need to convince someone else to do it. As
yet there isn't even a design. Why should we have an issue that says
"please design and implement this particular notion of mine"? How
does it help?

-- 
Philip Martin
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