13849 - merge mozilla.org LXR customizations to SourceForge LXR

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Webtools Graveyard :: MXR, defect, P3)

Description

[Dawn Endico]

The new version isn't released yet but I need to install and test
drive it. Probably need to re-implement some customizations if there
are some they didn't take. Generally make sure things work.

Comment 1

[timeless]

Hey, how's this going? Do you think landfill could host an lxr testbed?

Comment 2

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

what's the situation on this?  If this was for updating lxr.mozilla.org, Myk
just did it the other night, to pick up the raw=1 fix.

Comment 3

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

I only updated the one file that got fixed, and I didn't sync it with the trunk
of lxr development but only with the newer version of the file in mozilla.org's
repository.

Comment 4

[Tim]

This assigned bug hasn't been touched in a couple of years. This is me poking it
to see if it should be unassigned/helpwanted.

Comment 5

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

OK, this sounds like this bug means to get mozilla.org's LXR updated with the
current official LXR....   Brad: Am I correct in thinking I remember that you
were working on doing this?

Comment 6

[Brad Roberts]

I did some personal poking at the 0.9 version of lxr that's on sourceforge and
found it unusable.  I took that codebase and have started essentially a rewrite
but it's not really useable yet.

Comment 7

[timeless]

fwiw landfill is now hosting an mxr or two (in addition to an lxr for bugzilla)
See <http://landfill.mozilla.org/mxr/>.  I've started resurrecting patches and
putting them on /mxr-test/. I've setup trees for most things imaginable. I've
also started triaging bugs.

I don't have glimpse search working but find and ident work (ident works better
on mxr-test). Nor have I setup automatic updates of the files or indexes, I'll
probably do that next sunday (I'm traveling a lot this week).

Comment 8

[Heikki Toivonen (remove -bugzilla when emailing directly)]

Any progress on this? There are also other efforts where people have patched LXR
to work for them, for example http://openit.disco.unimib.it/

Comment 9

[Jonathan Watt [:jwatt]]

Dawn, do you mind if bear takes this?  If not, I think the summary should be
changed to something like "Merge our LXR changes with SF LXR and move all our
open bugs to their bugtracker".

This should be the first stage of a two stage process to replace our version of
LXR with the version developed on SourceForge:

  http://sourceforge.net/projects/lxr

This bug can deal with merging all the relevent changes we've made to our
version to LXR with the SF version, and with moving all our open LXR bugs to the
SF bug tracker. The LXR compontent in bmo should then be removed/disabled if
possible.

Once this is done, a separate mozilla.org/Server Operations bug can be opened to
have LXR removed from/frozen in our repository, and the version at
lxr.mozilla.org upgraded to the SF version.

Thoughts?

Comment 10

[timeless]

i have a bunch of changes on mxr-test which i want to land, but i don't think
dawn's currently active here.

Comment 11

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

Dawn's not around these days.  Jonathan, that sounds like a good plan. 
Reassigning to bear and updating summary.  timeless, you should land your
changes in the SF LXR.

Comment 12

[Mike Taylor [:bear]]

This is my plan of attack:

 1. get the sourceforge version and install it along side of the mozilla version
 2. run diffs to see how different they really are
 3. knock the low hanging fruit
 4. report here and get some feedback
 5. rinse and repeat

Comment 13

[Jonathan Watt [:jwatt]]

I don't know if the list of all the changes that have gone into the version of
LXR in Mozilla's CVS is useful to you, but here it is anyway.

http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsquery.cgi?dir=mozilla%2Fwebtools%2Flxr&date=all

Comment 14

[Ryan S. Scheel [:havvy]]

Should this be closed as a WONTFIX? Or at a minimum, de-prioritized from "P3" to "P5" or "-"?

Comment 15

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

mxr is gone, mass closing.
https://searchfox.org/ is a much better alternative.