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From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To: meta@public-inbox.org
Subject: [PATCH] TODO: add some Xapian-related stuff
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2022 18:29:13 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220826182913.1217057-1-e@80x24.org> (raw)

Just to more clearly spell out what needs to be done on
the search side.
---
 TODO | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index 36055911..14dcfe72 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -111,6 +111,13 @@ all need to be considered for everything we introduce)
 * improve performance and avoid head-of-line blocking on slow storage
   (done for most git blob retrievals, Xapian needs work)
 
+* allow optional use of separate Xapian worker process to implement
+  timeouts and avoid head-of-line blocking problems.  Consider
+  just-ahead-of-time builds to take advantage of custom date parsers
+  (approxidate) and other features not available to Perl bindings.
+
+* integrate git approxidate parsing into Xapian w/o spawning git
+
 * HTTP(S) search API (likely JMAP, but GraphQL could be an option)
   It should support git-specific prefixes (dfpre:, dfpost:, dfn:, etc)
   as extensions.  If JMAP, it should have HTTP(S) analogues to

                 reply	other threads:[~2022-08-26 18:30 UTC|newest]

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