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From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: meta@public-inbox.org
Subject: Re: Has anyone tried importing lkml?
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 17:55:34 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180115175534.GA5787@80x24.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d5546b24-5840-4ae9-d25b-5e3e737ed73b@linuxfoundation.org>

Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> The question I do have is whether public-inbox is the right tool for
> doing something like this. LKML message count is somewhere in the
> millions, and I'm curious what that would look like when imported into a
> git tree used by public-inbox. For comparison, the Linux kernel itself
> is only about 700,000 commits, so a git repo of all LKML archives would
> easily dwarf that.

It's probably too slow for object walking (which impacts
clone-ability) at the moment due to tree object churn.  The
current 2/38 tree structure (which mirrors git loose objects)
turned out to be a not-so-great idea; maybe 2/2/36 would be

I would love to help improve public-inbox for LKML needs while
preserving compatibility.

> Has anyone tried doing this at all, or should we blaze that trail on our
> own?

I prefer we improve public-inbox together so it can benefit
other projects, too.  I know there's been interest in having
Debian archives using it, too.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-15 17:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-15 17:41 Has anyone tried importing lkml? Konstantin Ryabitsev
2018-01-15 17:55 ` Eric Wong [this message]
2018-01-15 18:04   ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2018-01-15 18:27     ` Eric Wong
2018-01-15 20:09       ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2018-01-15 20:42         ` Bram Adams
2018-01-15 20:54           ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2018-01-15 21:03             ` Bram Adams

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