2009/11/18 John A Meinel <email address hidden>:
> *A* problem with a bug like "require lots of memory" is that there isn't
> a clear point when the bug can be considered closed. The old code didn't
> really grow without bounds, it just had a high bound (say 1GB to branch
> a Launchpad branch), and the new code has a lower bound (approx 512MB
> now).
Right.
> I'm tempted to mark this as fix released in bzr-2.1.0b2 and open a new
> bug if we want to continue the discussion.
OK with me.
That has another possibly beneficial effect: you can see if anyone
using >2.1b2 *actually* complains about memory usage, or how many
people do. If nobody, then though it may not be the smallest it could
be, it would seem a low priority.
2009/11/18 John A Meinel <email address hidden>:
> *A* problem with a bug like "require lots of memory" is that there isn't
> a clear point when the bug can be considered closed. The old code didn't
> really grow without bounds, it just had a high bound (say 1GB to branch
> a Launchpad branch), and the new code has a lower bound (approx 512MB
> now).
Right.
> I'm tempted to mark this as fix released in bzr-2.1.0b2 and open a new
> bug if we want to continue the discussion.
OK with me.
That has another possibly beneficial effect: you can see if anyone
using >2.1b2 *actually* complains about memory usage, or how many
people do. If nobody, then though it may not be the smallest it could
be, it would seem a low priority.
-- launchpad. net/~mbp/>
Martin <http://