Le 29/10/2022 à 06:34, Ian Kelling a écrit :
I have an update. A lists.gnu.org user from emacs helped me identify some occasional backlogs that were happening, causing 2 - 3 hour delays of some messages every once in a while. I've done a deep dive into the performance of the system, identified some bottlenecks, and figured out how to eliminate them, making those tasks get done much more efficiently. Unfortunately, there was some bumps in the road in that process over the last week, leading to some long delays, but as of yesterday things are stable. Previously, a post to lilypond-user would often take 10 minutes to go out to ~1000 subscribers. Now, if there aren't a lot of other messages being processed, that will go out to all subscribers in about 2 minutes. Obviously, that will take longer if lots of messages get posted at the same time, 10 messages will take 10 minutes or so, and messages from other lists can affect this, but there are only a handful of lists on our server with lots of subscribers like lilypond-user. The time to deliver scales linearly with the # of subscribers.
That's good news! Thank you very much for your work on this.
The reasons for delayed messages I mentioned in my quote above still exist, and I want to note again that lilypond can add moderators to approve messages from new posters faster than the listhelpers, and this should be even more helpful now that messages are processed faster.
Right now, nominating moderators is not possible because the list admin is unresponsive. Cf. our private correspondence.
The next major improvement I plan to work on is deploying public-inbox, https://public-inbox.org/README.html, a new list archive which will operate alongside the existing one. It has many nice features, one that is not obvious is that it's search function should work better. An example is here https://inbox.sourceware.org/binutils/ . Mailman 3 will come after that.
Looks like this supports Unicode. For a list like lilypond-user-fr, where many possible search terms have accents, this would go a long way. Thanks, Jean
