On Aug 9, 2013, at 4:37 PM, Lloyd Hilaiel <[email protected]> wrote:
> Grafting a better sign up onto sync 1.1 has been talked about as a way to > address usability problems in sync without having to deal with the complexity > of the current implementation. A way to release a fix to sync faster. > > Talking about this as a real option makes people really uncomfortable. I'd > like to get to the heart of it. > > So I'd like to open a venting thread here. Let's capture once and for all > the real, actual, user facing or implementation complexity downsides of > implementing a new authentication flow and grafting it onto Sync 1.1. > > Assuming scalability could be addressed, why is this crazy? > I'd also like to know what the scalability concerns are, so we can address those. Sync should scale ok. It's very hard on hardware, though, so we run into problems when we don't babysit it for a few months. But that's mostly a consequence of drives that are writing 24/7 and isn't a problem that's going to go away in any system! Toby _______________________________________________ Sync-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/sync-dev
