Trouble with Launchpad...

[Martin Pool]

On 30 June 2010 23:52, Max Kanat-Alexander <mkanat at bugzilla.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 6:08 PM, John Arbash Meinel
> <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
>> I *am* slowly working on an annotation cache, which would store
>> snapshots of the annotation at various points in time. (So that 'bzr
>> annotate' doesn't have to continue to be an O(file_history) operation.)
>
>        That's probably the best long-term solution to the problem.
>
>        In the mean time, I suppose we will want to come up with some way to
> get the annotation information asynchronously or show (old) for older
> revisions.
>
>>> That's going slow, as I'm working on refactoring some of our code to
>>> make it easier to have arbitrary caches of this sort.
>
>        Okay. Are you thinking that it will happen this year, or later? If it's
> going to be years before there's an annotation cache, then loggerhead
> will have to come up with a more architecturally-sound solution, but if
> it's just going to be a few months, then we can just hack in some
> workaround for now.

I won't speak for John as far as the amount of effort, but as far as
the fraction of his effort, it's something that's on our radar as a
strategic goal, but not at the top of our stakeholders' wishes at the
moment.  But I think there are some cheap workarounds.

Perhaps you could change loggerhead to have an easy option to see the
file text without annotations?


-- 
Martin