On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 1:48 AM, Lars Viklund <zao@acc.umu.se> 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? -- Olaf