On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 7:56 AM, Barry Warsaw <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jan 07, 2011, at 07:26 AM, Robert Collins wrote: > >>Another possibility is to move from a static-file archiver to just >>delivering views on the messages dynamically, which would likely make >>a lot of things easier; we've been investigating highly scalable db's >>- Cassandra in particular - that would offset any scaling concerns. > > Yes. We've discussed that a few times over the years in the Mailman mailing > lists and it would be very beneficial for a number of reasons (takedowns, > improved email obfuscation, additional dynamic linking, etc.) When Pipermail > was originally written, it wasn't feasible to do, but certainly machines are > fast enough now, especially with caching.
mmm, generally 'fast enough' depends on algorithms IMO :). > On archiver-dev a few months ago, Bill Janssen also floated the idea of using > uplib <http://uplib.parc.com/> as a foundation for a better, dynamic archiver. Thats an interesting project; dunno if its suitable for LP, but certainly it would do for moderate sized list hosts. -Rob _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
