Alaa Abd El Fattah wrote:
> Hello again list,
> 
> It's been a month since we released the first Alpha release of Pootle
> 2.1.0, it didn't get much testing (I'm heartbroken :-( but that didn't
> stop us from working hard so here comes Pootle 2.1.0 Alpha 2, another
> snapshot release to give you a taste of things to come.

I'm very interested in testing Alaa. Just need some time to work out how 
its going to be tested since we are now running Pootle out of the old 
SVN test checkout of 2.0.

> 
> No new features where introduced in this release, but we rewrote the
> implementation of the translate page for better performance. much
> better performance in fact in our benchmarks apache was able to serve 3
> times as many requests per second because of this optimization. it also
> brings down memory use considerably.

Yay.

> 
> Now you have no excuse, if you've complained about memory use,
> performance under a large number of users or high concurrency you must
> test this release and send us many many wonderful patches, bug reports,
> patches, feature requests and patches. (did I say patches? please send
> patches)
> 
> We also introduced two new ./manage.py (or django-admin.py) commands:
>  * (sync_stores) for mass saving new translations to disk
>  * (update_stores) for mass updating database with new strings from
> file system 

Another Yay.

<snip>
> 
> * The main Django database is now much larger, in Pootle 2.0 the
>   database was quite small, its size depended on the number of
>   languages, projects and files. in 2.1 it's size depends on the
>   number of translation strings as well and even the smallest project
>   has thousands of these. This should have no negative impact on
>   performance but larger Pootle installations might find using sqlite3
>   as the database engine impractical. using MySQL (or PostgreSQL) will
>   have a very measurable impact on performance.

Is a DB converter included?

The biggest problems we had going to 2.0 were migrating the DBs.


Amos Jeffries
Squid HTTP Caching Proxy Project

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