Collecting feature requests

[Craig Harding]

Isn't the trac-hack vote (http://www.trac-hacks.org/wiki/VotePlugin)
plugin what we all need - a voting system?

This plugin keeps it all under the same roof. Why buy a truck and car
when winter tires on the car is sufficient.

Is it possible to have the vote number as a column in the search results?

Craig.

On 1/5/09, Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Kevin Stange <kevin at simguy.net> wrote:
>  > Felipe Contreras wrote:
>  >> On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 2:33 AM, Luke Schierer <lschiere at pidgin.im> wrote:
>  >>> On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 03:32:53PM -0800, Casey Ho wrote:
>  >>>> Drupal's performance is a straw man argument.  I had configured Drupal
>  >>>> to automatically shut down in the case of high load/high usage- based
>  >>>> on what you had said earlier.  Drupal was not responsible for the
>  >>>> server downtine earlier this week.
>  >>> I am not and have not blamed drupal for the downtime earlier this week.
>  >>> I'm just asserting, based on my experience, that is a huge resource hog,
>  >>> resources that we often find scarce.
>  >>>
>  >>> That it will, supposedly, shut itself down in such at such a time, but I
>  >>> think we are better served with a mechanism that we can have up all the
>  >>> time.
>  >>
>  >> This is what the Brainstorm author commented[1] about this:
>  >>
>  >> Concerning Drupal and Brainstorm performance, I'd like to share my
>  >> experience. I'm its author and I'm part of the team managing
>  >> brainstorm.ubuntu.com.
>  >>
>  >> During the launch of Ubuntu Brainstorm, we faced some performance
>  >> issues, for two days. Why? Because 1/ we didn't activated Drupal
>  >> caching and 2/ the launch of Brainstorm was *highly* popular (300,000
>  >> votes the first day, slashdotted, digged, wired).
>  >> But after that, we set up the Drupal caching, then a Squid proxy
>  >> (better than drupal caching), and things calmed down.
>  >> We are now running well on a shared Xen host with a dozen of others
>  >> virtual machines, at 3,000 votes a day, and dozens of thousands of
>  >> unique visits/day.
>  >
>  > For what it's worth, Xen provides guaranteed fixed resource allocation.
>  >  We are on an OpenVZ virtual machine which provides shared resource
>  > allocation, and we have no idea how many other machines are on our
>  > system with us.
>
>  Ok, but he is providing an idea to avoid the issues you where mentioning before.
>
>  So at least there's a possibility that there won't be load issues, right?
>
>
>  --
>  Felipe Contreras
>
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