Trac issue tracker is slow

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jul 2, 2008, at 17:01, William Siegrist wrote:
> On Jun 29, 2008, at 12:03 AM, Joshua Root wrote:
>> William Siegrist wrote:
>>> On Jun 20, 2008, at 11:45 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>>> On Jun 20, 2008, at 11:21 PM, William Siegrist wrote:
>>>>> So let me know if this change is worth the performance.  If  
>>>>> some devs want to see the difference, you can ping me in IRC so  
>>>>> I can switch the option, let you load a few of these pages, and  
>>>>> then switch back. Its quite noticeable.
>>>>
>>>> Absent a way to build the menu ourselves, my vote would be to  
>>>> switch to a text box. I usually copy/paste the maintainer's  
>>>> email address from the "port info" output anyway, since we never  
>>>> got the full list of maintainers in the drop down box.
>>
>> I'd be in favour of switching to a text box too, especially if it  
>> could be made to automatically append @macports.org to bare  
>> usernames (maybe even validate the result). In fact, why not do  
>> this for cc as well? It would also be nice to be able to assign  
>> tickets to non-committer accounts.
>
> I like the idea of expanding bare names with @macports for both  
> fields. Maybe even use the autocomplete idea with this. It doesnt  
> seem too hard to do as a plugin, but I'm in the process of  
> upgrading to Trac v0.11. So I could write the plugin for v0.11 and  
> deploy it when I'm ready to deploy v0.11, but that will still be a  
> few weeks away.

I think that would be super.


> Does anyone want to step forward and declare a naive text field the  
> way to go in the short term and the smarter text field a nice  
> upgrade in a few weeks?

I say go for it!