I've been seeing reports that the plugins.xml is slow http://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/plugins.xml
I know there is work to move this to the Docker hosting. But I had another idea. I'm assuming that it's currently generated out of Django. I think we need to find a way to put a cache in place to make the server response faster. Obviously a cache would be tricky if a new plugin is uploaded. But the cache expire is say every 10 minutes, that's still only 6 reloads of the view per hour instead of how many hits from people checking plugins (100s-1000s per hour). https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/cache/ FYI we should cache this file in RAM since it's 1 small file. Looking at https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Django/blob/master/qgis-app/plugins/views.py I see that it might be tricky because the server is trying to filter the list before sending to the user. Maybe there's some way around that like redirecting users to a slightly different url when they request 1.8 plugins. No change necessary on the desktop side if the fetch is allowed to follow to a different url. Thanks, Alex _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
