Re: Migrating our wiki

[Johan Corveleyn <jc...@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 2:37 AM, Johan Corveleyn <jc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 10:11 PM, Johan Corveleyn <jc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 6:25 PM, Daniel Shahaf <d....@daniel.shahaf.name> wrote:
>>> Johan Corveleyn wrote on Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 16:36:58 +0200:
>>>> I can't take it any longer ... our (MoinMoin) wiki [1] is so slow that
>>>> it's almost unusable.  [,..] So I'd like us to move to
>>>> cwiki.apache.org.
>>>
>>> I prefer moin to confluence (less overhead, no js requirement, etc etc).
>>>
>>> So I think it'd be nice if we could stick to moin but fix the
>>> performance situation.
>>>
>>> What's infra's position on this?  Is moin supported, or not?  Would
>>> a bug about "moin performance is unacceptable" be fixed?
>>
>> I have no idea. But it's worth a try (having a performant moin wiki
>> would be the least work for us at this time), so I'll file a ticket.
>> If infra won't fix the performance, we can ask for help doing the
>> (semi-)automatic migration from there.
>
> Filed the ticket:
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-12818 (MoinMoin wiki extremely slow)

This issue has turned out very well. Infra has worked its magic, and
our MoinMoin wiki is fast again! In fact, I think it's faster now than
it ever was before :-).

So, no need to spend time migrating. We can all be merry, go to
https://wiki.apache.org/subversion and start editing / adding useful
content :-).

-- 
Johan

Re: Migrating our wiki

[Greg Stein <gs...@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 12:59 PM, Johan Corveleyn <jc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>...

> > Filed the ticket:
> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-12818 (MoinMoin wiki
> extremely slow)
>
> This issue has turned out very well. Infra has worked its magic, and
> our MoinMoin wiki is fast again! In fact, I think it's faster now than
> it ever was before :-).
>

Hat tip to Daniel Gruno. Moin has this unfortunate habit of scanning
*every* registered user when saving a page. With 1.7M spam accounts ...
well, you can see the issue :-)

He moved moin to a box with SSDs for faster I/O and nuked all inactive
accounts. Win!

(moin has been hitting Infra with downtime, so this *also* helps us, in
addition to all moin users; just needed somebody/time to dig into the "why")

Cheers,
-g