Re: [Tracker] indexer-split branch missing lots of important stuff

[Philip Van Hoof <spam pvanhoof be>]

On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 14:15 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Martyn Russell <martyn imendio com> wrote:
> > We are continuing to work on your TODO list this week.
>
> I'm curious as to what that TODO list looks like. Is it in svn or was in IRC.

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ïOn Sun, 2008-07-27 at 23:07 -0400, Jamie McCracken wrote:
> ïApologies if they are elsewhere and I have missed them in the code
> but
> if not these need to be restored form trunk before i give approval for
> merge
>
> These are:
>
> 1) temp blacklisting of files that change frequently - see revision
> 1149
> and 1169 in trunk
>
> 2) low disk space limit (cant see this used anywhere)
>
> 3) stop words in tracker-parser.c - why did you remove this?
>
> 4) index merging - where did this go? Without this indexing wont scale
> up (its slow updating a large index) + you will suffer from
> fragmentation and wasted disk space due to hashtable resize
> relocations
> (these are never recovered) - merging solves both these issues
>
> 5) evolution on startup should scan any changed summary files for new
> junk or deleted items and remove them from index - see trunk for this
>
> there is probably more but all the above are very important



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