[Mageia-dev] Proposal for bugzilla

[Michael scherer]

On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 01:20:41AM +0100, Dexter Morgan wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 11:22 PM, Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 24 December 2010 00:13, Maarten Vanraes <maarten.vanraes at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Op donderdag 23 december 2010 22:23:56 schreef Ahmad Samir:
> >>> On 23 December 2010 22:01, Samuel Verschelde <stormi at laposte.net> wrote:
> >>> > I remember some years ago you could choose the exact version of the
> >>> > package for which you reported a bug, from a list. I agree that
> >>> > improving the UI side helpers could be useful.
> >>> >
> >>> > Regards
> >>> >
> >>> > Samuel Verschelde
> >>>
> >>> As was said by dmorgan, listing each SRPM slowed down bugzilla a lot;
> >>> the distro has a lot of SRPMS...
> >>
> >> an ajax search is better; it doesn't add much and only gets searched if you
> >> enter at least 2 chars, or something like that.
> >>
> >> if such an ajax is wanted, i can write that if i can use app-mageia-db or
> >> similar as a list.
> >>
> >
> > If the user doesn't know how to find the package info (rpm -q
> > packagname), no auto-complete is going to help much, he'll just pick
> > one of them randomly (top of the list, or bottom of the list). It's
> > not much to ask for rpm -q output...
> >
> > --
> > Ahmad Samir
> >
> 
> and this method is deprecated ( i mean the big list ) because this
> slow down too much the server.

The server, or the the browser ?
( because server side, that's just a SQL query likely in cache, while 
browser side, you have to render a enormous 15 000 items list,
with allocation of objects, etc, etc ).
-- 
Michael Scherer