X-Git-Url: http://www.git.stargrave.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fdesign_notes.txt;fp=Documentation%2Fdesign_notes.txt;h=5da48b5dcc2b302e0267eacea43d1e0ae5336cca;hb=209476bb4cf497810564eb764e93854504a3aa6d;hp=ec1dc80084f65e1ea220e68bfaa0cf603d63fb8f;hpb=22f181c10256278f0fb4c9a664a82e3e68d208a6;p=public-inbox.git diff --git a/Documentation/design_notes.txt b/Documentation/design_notes.txt index ec1dc800..5da48b5d 100644 --- a/Documentation/design_notes.txt +++ b/Documentation/design_notes.txt @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ Why email? developers and users of Free Software should not rely on proprietary tools or services. -* Existing infrastrucuture, tools, and user familarity. +* Existing infrastructure, tools, and user familiarity. There is already a large variety of tools, clients, and email providers available. There are also many resources for users to run their own SMTP server on a domain they control. @@ -143,10 +143,10 @@ Scalability notes Even with shallow clone, storing the history of large/busy mailing lists may place much burden on subscribers and servers. However, having a single (or few) refs representing the entire history of a list is good -for small lists since it's easier to lookup a message by Message-ID, so +for small lists since it's easier to look up a message by Message-ID, so we want to avoid splitting refs with independent histories. -ssoma will likely grow its own builtin ref rotation system based on +ssoma will likely grow its own built-in ref rotation system based on message count (not rotating at fixed time intervals). This would split the histories and require O(n) lookup time based on Message-ID, where `n' is the number of history splits.