Developers of Sympa

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Hi Tim,

Riseup.net currently hosts over 10,000 mailing lists with Sympa, and we have 
had to move the list configurations into the database in order for the web 
interface to perform well.  I have posted patches for this functionality to 
the list.

Another thing to consider is using the sympa soap interface within your own 
web architecture.  It is fairly trivial to do.

More later, as I am at work now.  Please get in touch with me if you have any 
questions.

Take Care,
Charles Paul


On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:43:57AM +0000, Tim Retout wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am having trouble maintaining patches against the web interface,
> mainly because of its size (16000 lines).  For instance, today I am
> adding a new authentication system for a customer, and it is difficult
> to tell immediately whether my changes need to be made only in one
> place.  Is there any interest in refactoring the web interface, or using
> a web framework such as Catalyst?
> 
> I have also been seeing performance problems - when running with 1000
> lists or so, the 'List of Lists' pages can be very slow to load.  I
> believe this is because all the list configuration is on separate
> directories on the filesystem, so a lot of parsing and object creation
> must occur each time.  Is there any interest in moving the list
> configuration into the database?
> 
> These may well be questions for after sympa 6, but I want to give
> everyone some notice before I go and start writing features that may
> never get merged! :)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
> Tim Retout <address@concealed>
>