[OH-Dev] On making the /people/* pages faster

[Asheesh Laroia]

So, there are a bunch of pages that begin with /people/ that are what we 
call "People search."

Those pages are often excruciatingly slow. They are backended by two 
separate systems of searching for people: Haystack (itself backed by 
either Whoosh or Xapian), and also direct Django ORM queries.

Frequently, they're excruciatingly slow due to features that nobody uses. 
So I'm going to write up a wiki page with all the features the "People 
search" pages have right now, and then I'm going to remove basically all 
the features.

Let's add them back slowly, if at all, based on if we can make them 
perform decently well.

This emphasis on a speedy backend is separate from any redesign-type 
ideas. If you have redesign-type ideas, share them!

-- Asheesh.