Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] statictrac, trac and caching

[Michael Niedermayer <michael@niedermayer.cc>]

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Hi Marth64

On Sun, Jun 15, 2025 at 11:06:47AM -0500, Marth64 wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 15, 2025 at 10:57 AM Kacper Michajlow
> <kasper93-at-gmail.com@ffmpeg.org> wrote:
> > Maybe it's time to retire the trac? It is quite slow by design and not
> > really actively maintained anymore. Holding onto legacy software
> > always increases the burden of maintainability.
> 
> I do feel that a good portion of wiki technical documentation can
> probably be moved to the main docs.

The wiki has the huge advantage that people can edit it easily

Editing the docs people have to do a git checkout, edit a file
with an editor, make a git commit read patch submission rules
submit a patch to ML or forge.

Thats alot stumbling blocks thrown in ones way


> There are some good examples and information there that seem to me can
> be crystallized into plain old texi.
> While I'm neutral about Trac I think in a sense this could also help
> in the sense of reducing server load for this somewhat static content.

yesterdays incident had like ~40k accesses on teh same file.
So moving 99% of content out of trac would not have helped if
that file was in teh 1%

thx

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