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John Doty wrote:
> On Sep 12, 2015, at 5:14 PM, Evan Foss (evanfoss AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]<geda-user AT delorie DOT com>  wrote:
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>>>>> There are 51 megabytes of contributions from 83 contributors on gedasymbols.org. We’re *already* acting like the Python project, except we’re pretending we aren’t.
>>>>>            
>> All I am hearing is 83 people have accumulated a lot of contributions
>> and that we are perhaps squandering an opportunity by not finding a
>> way to verify them and package them in a release of some kind.
>>      
> This may be relevant:
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> http://www.cpan.org/misc/ZCAN.html
>
> Or maybe not, I don’t know. But we are getting back to the original topic, sort of ;-)
>
> John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
> http://www.noqsi.com/
> jpd AT noqsi DOT com
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>
>
>
>    
Hi,

Read the above link until here:

<quote>

When designing your author/module/whatever hierarchy *think 
scalability*. We originally got it wrong in one spot by having all 
authors as subdirectories in one single directory which quickly became a 
bottleneck. (The solution to this was simply to 'hash' based on the 
leading two characters of the user ids.) Think also several different 
views to your data: by author, by module, by category, by date, by 
keywords, and so forth. Don't think only hierarchical views will be 
enough: you will need searching capabilities.

</quote>

Kind regards,

Bert Timmerman.