Launchpad itself

launchpad should offer anonymous bzr+ssh

Bug #493389 reported by Martin Pool
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Launchpad itself
Won't Fix
Undecided
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Bug Description

[May be a dupe but I can't find it.][

If you have not done a launchpad-login lp:bzr is accessed over http with no smart server. This is several times slower than using bzr+ssh. Any of the following would help:

 1- accept ssh <email address hidden> (_may_ be easiest to implement)
 2- accept bzr+http, perhaps from within loggerhead
 3- serve bzr over tcp

This is connected to simplifying and improving the way lp: works, but it can usefully be done stand alone.

This whole experience gives people a poor experience when they're first trying bzr and Launchpad.

Example http://groups.google.com/group/web2py/browse_thread/thread/261a360eaba86b02/ebed44f7e03ad89e and thread "Default performance of lp:foo URLs" <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/bazaar/2009q4/064762.html>

Tags: lp-code
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Jonathan Lange (jml) wrote :

Bug 165087 and bug 164790 are almost dupes -- fixing either of them would fix this bug.

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Martin Pool (mbp) wrote :

Or anonymous ssh would be the other option. I don't think it's all that attractive and may be unnecessarily slower & harder, but it may be worth thinking about.

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Martin Pool (mbp) wrote :

After some measurement: ssh startup is fairly consistently 4-5s from Australia. For small operations this is a big fraction of the overall time. The main attractions of ssh are that it's a small change from current practice and probably won't find new bugs.

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Tim Penhey (thumper) wrote : Re: [Bug 493389] Re: launchpad should offer an anonymous smart server

On Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:42:19 Martin Pool wrote:
> After some measurement: ssh startup is fairly consistently 4-5s from
> Australia. For small operations this is a big fraction of the overall
> time. The main attractions of ssh are that it's a small change from
> current practice and probably won't find new bugs.

I was talking with Michael about this, and we think it shouldn't be too much
work to offer anon bzr access read only.

Martin Pool (mbp)
summary: - launchpad should offer an anonymous smart server
+ launchpad should offer anonymous bzr+ssh
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Tim Penhey (thumper) wrote : Re: [Bug 493389] Re: launchpad should offer anonymous bzr+ssh

On Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:51:36 Martin Pool wrote:
> ** Summary changed:
>
> - launchpad should offer an anonymous smart server
> + launchpad should offer anonymous bzr+ssh
>

Why change the summary? The former is more likely than the latter.

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Jonathan Lange (jml) wrote :

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 4:47 AM, Tim Penhey <email address hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:51:36 Martin Pool wrote:
>> ** Summary changed:
>>
>> - launchpad should offer an anonymous smart server
>> + launchpad should offer anonymous bzr+ssh
>>
>
> Why change the summary?  The former is more likely than the latter.
>

Because there are already two other bugs filed about anonymous smart
servers: one for bzr:// and one for bzr+http://

jml

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Michael Hudson-Doyle (mwhudson) wrote :

I don't think anonymous bzr+ssh is all that attractive an idea.

Changed in launchpad-code:
status: New → Won't Fix
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Leonardo Santagada @ Proge.com.br (santagada-proge) wrote :

bzr (at least the latest version) will consume as much memory as data it is downloading from http so I think this is very attractive.

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Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer) wrote :

Am 07/03/12 17:27, schrieb Leonardo Santagada @ Proge.com.br:
> bzr (at least the latest version) will consume as much memory as data it
> is downloading from http so I think this is very attractive.
 An alternative would be to provide the bzr smart server (rather than
just "dumb" access) over http; that should give similar performance as
anonymous ssh.

Cheers,

Jelmer

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