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From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To: meta@public-inbox.org
Subject: [PATCH 4/7] doc: update 1.7 release notes, tuning, TODO
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2021 02:45:35 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210311104538.7743-5-e@80x24.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210311104538.7743-1-e@80x24.org>

Some stuff done, some stuff still needs doing.
---
 Documentation/RelNotes/v1.7.0.wip     | 59 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 Documentation/public-inbox-tuning.pod |  9 ++++
 TODO                                  | 16 +++-----
 3 files changed, 72 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/v1.7.0.wip b/Documentation/RelNotes/v1.7.0.wip
index a35ff227..f71f447f 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/v1.7.0.wip
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/v1.7.0.wip
@@ -4,12 +4,69 @@ MIME-Version: 1.0
 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
 Content-Disposition: inline
 
-TODO: gcf2, detached indices, JMAP, ...
+Another big release focused on multi-inbox search and scalability.
+
+* general changes
+
+  config file parsing is 2x faster with 50K inboxes
+
+* read-only public-inbox-daemon (-httpd, -nntpd, -imapd):
+
+  libgit2 may be used via Inline::C to avoid hitting system pipe
+  and process limits.  See public-inbox-tuning(7) manpage
+  for more details.
+
+* public-inbox-extindex
+
+  A new Xapian + SQLite index able to search across several inboxes.
+  This may be configured to replace per-inbox Xapian DBs,
+  (but not per-inbox SQLite indices) and speed up manifest.js.gz
+  generation.
+
+  See public-inbox-extindex-format(5) and
+  public-inbox-extindex(1) manpages for more details.
+
+* public-inbox-nntpd
+
+  - startup is 6x faster with 50K inboxes if using -extindex
+
+* PublicInbox::WWW
+
+  - mboxrd search results are returned in reverse Xapian docid order,
+    so more recent results are more likely to show up first
+
+  - d: and dt: search prefixes allow "approxidate" formats supported
+    by "git log --since="
+
+  - manifest.js.gz generation is ~25x faster with -extindex
+
+* lei - local email interface
+
+  An experimental, subject-to-change, likely-to-eat-your-mail tool for
+  personal mail as well as interacting with public-inboxes on the local
+  filesystem or over HTTP(S).  See lei(1), lei-overview(7), and other
+  lei-* manpages for details.
+
+* public-inbox-watch
+
+  - IMAP and NNTP code shared with lei, fixing an off-by-one error
+    in IMAP synchronization for single-message IMAP folders.
+
+  - \Deleted and \Draft messages ignored for IMAP, as they are for
+    Maildir.
+
+  - IMAP and NNTP connection establishment (including git-credential
+    prompts) ordering is now tied to config file order.
 
 Compatibility:
 
 * Rollbacks all the way to public-inbox 1.2.0 remain supported
 
+Internal changes
+
+* public-inbox-index switched to new internal IPC code shared
+  with lei
+
 Please report bugs via plain-text mail to: meta@public-inbox.org
 
 See archives at https://public-inbox.org/meta/ for all history.
diff --git a/Documentation/public-inbox-tuning.pod b/Documentation/public-inbox-tuning.pod
index e9702416..b3a2b411 100644
--- a/Documentation/public-inbox-tuning.pod
+++ b/Documentation/public-inbox-tuning.pod
@@ -55,6 +55,15 @@ public-inbox processes.
 More (optional) L<Inline::C> use will be introduced in the future
 to lower memory use and improve scalability.
 
+=head2 libgit2 usage via Inline::C
+
+If libgit2 development files are installed and L<Inline::C>
+is enabled (described above), per-inbox C<git cat-file --batch>
+processes are replaced with a single L<perl(1)> process running
+C<PublicInbox::Gcf2::loop> in read-only daemons.
+
+Available as of public-inbox 1.7.0.
+
 =head2 Performance on rotational hard disk drives
 
 Random I/O performance is poor on rotational HDDs.  Xapian indexing
diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index 53907efd..4993b02c 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -86,7 +86,10 @@ all need to be considered for everything we introduce)
 
 * more and better test cases (use git fast-import to speed up creation)
 
-* large mbox/Maildir/MH/NNTP spool import (see PublicInbox::Import)
+* large mbox/Maildir/MH/NNTP spool import (in lei, but not
+  for public-facing inboxes)
+
+* MH import support (read-only, at least)
 
 * Read-only WebDAV interface to the git repo so it can be mounted
   via davfs2 or fusedav to avoid full clones.
@@ -133,18 +136,9 @@ all need to be considered for everything we introduce)
 
   - inotify-based manifest.js.gz updates
 
-  - process/FD reduction (needs to be slow-storage friendly)
-
   ...
 
-* command-line tool (similar to mairix/notmuch, but solver+git-aware)
-
-* consider removing doc_data from Xapian, redundant with over.sqlite3
-  It's no longer read as of public-inbox 1.6.0, but still written for
-  compatibility.
-
-* share "git cat-file --batch" processes across inboxes to avoid
-  bumping into /proc/sys/fs/pipe-user-pages-* limits
+* lei - see %CMD in lib/PublicInbox/LEI.pm
 
 * make "git cat-file --batch" detect unlinked packfiles so we don't
   have to restart processes (very long-term)

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-03-11 10:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-11 10:45 [PATCH 0/7] doc updates, fixups, and more Eric Wong
2021-03-11 10:45 ` [PATCH 1/7] doc: glossary: add information for dates and timestamps Eric Wong
2021-03-11 10:45 ` [PATCH 2/7] searchidx: remove smsg_from_doc Eric Wong
2021-03-11 10:45 ` [PATCH 3/7] lei_curl: note proposed master/client mode for curl Eric Wong
2021-03-11 10:45 ` Eric Wong [this message]
2021-03-11 10:45 ` [PATCH 5/7] imapclient: disable workaround for Mail::IMAPClient 3.43+ Eric Wong
2021-03-11 20:34   ` [SQUASH] " Eric Wong
2021-03-11 10:45 ` [PATCH 6/7] config: use '-f' key to store config file pathname Eric Wong
2021-03-11 10:45 ` [PATCH 7/7] v2writable: fix undocumented --xapian-only Eric Wong

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