On 05/07/13 22:36, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
We have a repeated problem with the GHC wiki and issue tracker getting filled with spam, and the server is currently taking about a minute to respond to each attempt to load a web page.
I wonder if anyone would be open to us migrating the content to github instead. (Actually, while I'm at it, cloning from github is much faster than from darcs.haskell.org http://darcs.haskell.org, but that's a fight for another day.)
I don't see any spam - where are you looking? Also the Trac is loading in a second or two for me. We do occasionally have to revert some spam, but I like the fact that with Trac we're in control of our own infrastructure. This has turned out to be useful several times in the past - when we want some extra functionality, we go find a Trac plugin to do it, or we implement the change ourselves (or rather we ask Ian nicely to do it :-). We have a lot more functionality in our issue tracker than github does. There are a couple of pressing issues with Trac. One, searching is crap. Using Google with "site:hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc" is much better (you can set up a shortcut in your browser to do this, there are some instructions on the wiki somewhere). Two, repo browsing was too slow, so we had to turn it off. This will be fixed by upgrading Trac, which I believe Ian is planning to do as part of the server migration. Cheers, Simon