[mythtv-users] ramfs for mysql

[Raymond Wagner]

On 1/6/2012 09:14, Steven Adeff wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Raymond Wagner<raymond at wagnerrp.com>  wrote:
>> On 1/5/2012 14:43, Steven Adeff wrote:
>>> I think it would be more useful for the page to exist, if only to say
>>> this is unsupported and we won't support saying how to do it in the
>>> place where people will search for it (ie the direct page), then just
>>> create a category for these pages to exist in, that category will live
>>> on as the compiled source of these things.
>>>
>>> But as others have said, to just delete it only begs for this type of
>>> thing to come up again and again.
>> Perhaps, but the wiki isn't a good place for this kind of information.
>> The existing wishlist pages fulfill a similar purpose, and there are
>> enough duplicates that result on those because the user can't be
>> bothered to read all the way through them (or perhaps understand them)
>> before posting a new one.  The mediawiki search algorithm is simply too
>> awful to make the pages usable.
> I'm confused, how is the wishlist page a similar purpose?

They're all a bunch of "what if..." thoughts.  What if MythTV had an IM 
client?  What if MythGallery could print?  What if live tv could be 
resumed from another frontend?  What if MythTV ran on my Casio 
calculator?  What if I stuffed MySQL into a RAM filesystem?  Some are 
interesting thoughts that should be perused if someone is bored or 
otherwise motivated.  Some are too difficult or just not possible to 
implement.  Others are bad ideas, and should be marked as such.

All I'm saying is that stuffing all of those things into a giant page on 
the wiki doesn't work.  Take the feature request pages as an example.  
Their traffic counts are low enough to show that if people have such 
thoughts, they're generally not consulting that page.  In my experience, 
if people do have such thoughts they wish to record down somewhere, 
they're just as likely to post it on trac (where they are summarily 
closed), or worse, post a similar or identical line to an existing one 
on the wiki, rather than add a comment against an existing one.

My point is that I've spent a fair bit of time cleaning up, organizing, 
and responding to stuff on those pages, and they're still just as clumsy 
and unwieldy as ever.  Reading through hundreds of lines of the stuff is 
tedious, MediaWiki's search algorithm is not designed to behave in such 
a manner, and the wiki just isn't suited for displaying such information 
in general.  My opinion is that if we actually wanted to properly index 
such musings for new features, or general MythTV or system setup, 
something like ideatorrent would work better.