Trac slowness diagnosis

[Peter Robinson]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 11:30 PM, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 11:52:20AM -0600, Daniel Drake wrote:
>> [...]
>> The main cause of this slowness is that we choose to display potential
>> ticket owners as a drop-down list (rather than a text entry field, the
>> trac default). The performance issues are well known:
>> http://trac.edgewall.org/ticket/4245
>>
>> Martin points out the disadvantage of the text entry field: it lets
>> you assign a ticket to a user account that doesn't exist.
>
> I would prefer to switch to a text entry field.  I don't think the
> disadvantage that Martin points out is significant.  It would be easy
> for Martin to create a report that shows tickets assigned to people who
> don't exist, since the number of people who do exist is much smaller.
> We already have thousands of people who don't exist listed in the
> drop-down menu, so the disadvantage is already present.

I agree, ultimately in a drop list of 5500 it's just as easy to assign
it to someone either side of the intended person as it is to mistype
it, there should be other things like milestones and other fields that
can be reported on.

Peter