Tobias Bieniek

it looks like we already have another open issue related to the reverse dependencies query performance (https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/issues/3655) so I'll close this one. we're actively working on this at the moment...

@carols10cents I've been thinking about bit about this proposal, but I'm not sure how it would work in relation to crate ownership transfers. If a spammer has two accounts they...

> I would say ownership of crates is ownership of crates, whether you published them initially or they were transferred to you, so they would count towards the limit. so...

@rust-lang/crates-io any other thoughts on this topic?

we discussed this issue in our team meeting last week and concluded that while we don't have a strong opinion we are leaning towards mimicking what GitHub does, instead of...

not that I am aware of. do we have crates with differences between manifest and index?

I'll keep it in mind for the next round of backfilling, but I agree that it is probably low priority :)

FWIW the original issue has been fixed. https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index/blob/master/li/bz/libz-sys now includes `links: z` for the relevant crate versions. once a new version is published we automatically sync the whole index file...

> when a new package is published, you re-parse all previous manifests and write their index entries from scratch? no, when a new package is published we parse the manifest...

the database was backfilled from the git index (see https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/pull/5112). we were previously storing a subset of the data in the index and a subset in the database. with the...