At 6:02 PM -0800 29/11/05, Boris Mann wrote:
Yep. I'm in favour of the forum, and I think a *private* mailing list would be useful as well. The forum to discuss and toss options back and forth, the private mailing list (scale@drupal.org? :P) for allowing lots of big site maintainers to have private conversations.
I used to participate in the "biglinux" mailing list. It was for mainly ISPs trying to roll out reliable infrastructure based on the 1.0 and 1.2 kernels. We found that almost all our hacks and "war stories" translated into committed improvements to the kernel. There are very few optimizations that, if beneficial to large sites, wouldn't also make small sites faster. If they do happen to make a small site a little slower, well, it's only a small site and doesn't generate much load anyway :) I guess what I'm getting at is that rather than a list or a book chapter on drupal.org I would prefer to see war stories posted as bugs to the issues tracker with either a patch or a description of the work-around. Things like tables missing indexes on key columns, un-optimized database queries, wasteful algorithms... they're all bugs. ...Richard.