On Jan 4, 2012 7:20 PM, "Joe Schaefer" <joe_schaefer_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
>...
> They're using the ASF CMS to manage the www.openoffice.org website, which
is full
> of 10 years worth of accumulated legacy spanning 50 or so different
natural languages.
> The CMS is "too slow" during commits to template files or such which
change
> the generated html content of virtually every file on the site.
Gotcha.
>
> There are 2 ways I could mitigate this issue with them if subversion
isn't interested
> in working on this use case:
Not sure I'd quite characterize it that way, but more that it is kind of
expected and we'd have a hard time using threads to fix it. It is entirely
possible that there are *other* solutions besides threads to help with this
problem.
>
> 1) convert the templating system to use SSI, which would eliminate most
of the
> sledgehammer type commits.
>
>
> 2) deploy the CMS on an SSD backed system.
>
>
> FWIW (2) is scheduled to happen in the not too distant future anyway,
I'm gonna guess you'll have this done faster than our 1.8 release (some
time H1 this year).
> and I personally
> don't want to encourage the use of SSI with the CMS even for oddball
situations
> like this one.
I think you really should switch to SSI. For a site this size, it is murder
on *any* version control system.
Cheers,
-g
Received on 2012-01-05 01:55:27 CET