On 01 February 2006 05:43, Daniel Berlin wrote:
> I was staring at the comment database, and noticed
> I can't imagine *any* of these comments are useful to human beings to
> read.
Did you browse a few? I'm curious, my guess would be that they're mostly
huge rtl dumps.
> If you dump the comment text from the >100k comments into a file, it's
> actually 71 meg of comments.
>
> These 271 comments make up ~40% of the space used in the entire comment
> database of 26k bugs.
>
> (All these are from RESOLVED bugs, BTW)
>
>
> Would anyone object to me just telling bugzilla to reject comments > 100k
> in length?
>
> (i've chosen 100k to keep arguments about what the "right" length is. I
> believe *everyone* can agree that 100k is over that length :P )
Seems reasonable to me. Perhaps even better would be if it automagically
turned >100k comments into gzipped attachments instead
of discarding/rejecting them altogether, but that would be a wish-list feature
for v2 I guess ...
cheers,
DaveK
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