From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: bug#25045: [Website] Packages page takes too long to load Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2016 21:18:07 +0100 Message-ID: <87fumbmk8w.fsf@gnu.org> References: <878ts4jz8m.fsf@gnu.org> <87inr7pmj2.fsf@pompo.co> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41348) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cBSOH-0007rr-Sf for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Nov 2016 15:19:06 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cBSOE-0002KM-Nf for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Nov 2016 15:19:05 -0500 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:58118) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cBSOE-0002KH-KU for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Nov 2016 15:19:02 -0500 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cBSOD-0002F4-RQ for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Nov 2016 15:19:02 -0500 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: In-Reply-To: ("Luis Felipe =?UTF-8?Q?L=C3=B3pez?= Acevedo"'s message of "Mon, 28 Nov 2016 13:41:49 -0500") List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" To: Luis Felipe =?UTF-8?Q?L=C3=B3pez?= Acevedo Cc: 25045@debbugs.gnu.org Luis Felipe L=C3=B3pez Acevedo skribis: > On 2016-11-28 12:00, Alex Sassmannshausen wrote: >> Hi Luis, >> >> Indeed, I had a first bash at solving this problem by providing a >> set of >> static html pages paginated by the first letter of the package name. >> >> I'm not particularly wedded to this solution, so if you feel strongly >> about going another way, I'd be keen to hear/see about it. >> >> In the meantime, I'm open to testing/feedback. I will unfortunately >> not >> be able to put work into this until at least Saturday/Sunday, as some >> Perl work has higher priority at the moment. >> >> But let me know if you have questions or feedback! >> >> Best wishes, > > Hi, Alex :) > > The solution I had in mind includes an alphabetic index, and > pagination as well. However, it includes a few more things, and would > take some time to design and implement. So I think we should use your > patch to fix the size issue as soon as possible. I agree! Alex, was there anything left to address? If not, feel free to push. :-) > For what is worth, this is what I had in mind: > > /packages/ > First page of the list of packages. Packages listed here only provide > a summary: package logo (if any), name, version, description, and an > indicator if it has issues. This page also has filters to find > packages (for now, alphabetic filter. In the future, category filter, > and search box). > > /packages/page/N/ > Page N of the list of packages. > > /packages/a/ > First page of the list of packages whose name starts with A. Packages > are presented the same way as in /packages/. > > /packages/a/page/N/ > Page N of the list of packages starting with letter A. > > /packages/icecat/X.Y.Z/ > Page with details about IceCat version X.Y.Z. It includes all the > information about this package, including its issues (which are > currently listed in a separate page along with the issues of other > packages: /packages/issues.html). Including the issues of a package in > its detail page could avoid having the current issues page grow too > much, like the current Packages page. > > This static pagination and filtering would generate A LOT of pages, > but of reasonable size for web browsers to load. Sounds like a good plan as well, though that=E2=80=99s indeed a lot of web = pages for that rusty CVS repo to handle=E2=80=A6 Medium-term, I think we should consider a solution involving pages generated on the fly server-side, with a caching proxy (nginx!) in front of it. We=E2=80=99ll have to seek assistance from the gnu.org web masters,= but ISTR they were not against that idea. Thanks! Ludo=E2=80=99.