Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: killing mediawiki

[William Hubbs]

On Fri, Jul 06, 2018 at 12:34:33PM +1200, Kent Fredric wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Jul 2018 12:32:20 -0500
> William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
>
> > I looked at this first, and it is very hard on the server.
> > Every pull or clone you do to update things works like an initial clone,
> > so it takes pretty massive resources.
>
> Surely, then the recommended approach involves:
>
> 1. Selecting pages [1]
> 2. Limiting clone depth [2]
>
> Or at least, encouraging the use of by_rev [3]
>
> 1: https://github.com/Git-Mediawiki/Git-Mediawiki/blob/master/docs/User-manual.md#limit-the-pages-to-be-imported
> 2: https://github.com/Git-Mediawiki/Git-Mediawiki/blob/master/docs/User-manual.md#shallow-imports
> 3: https://github.com/Git-Mediawiki/Git-Mediawiki/blob/master/docs/User-manual.md#optimizing-git-fetch
>
>

There are also other issues I'm not really familiar with because of how
mediawiki's error handling works (Patrick could tell you more about this
than I can).

William