From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat May 8 19:36: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from srv1.thuntek.net (srv1.thuntek.net [206.206.98.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFA0814FF8 for ; Sat, 8 May 1999 19:36:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwilde1@thuntek.net) Received: from thuntek.net (abq-020.thuntek.net [207.66.52.20]) by srv1.thuntek.net (8.9.1/8.6.12TNT1.0) with ESMTP id UAA20068; Sat, 8 May 1999 20:34:33 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <3734F39C.3D505895@thuntek.net> Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 20:31:56 -0600 From: Donald Wilde X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jim@blues.ghis.net Cc: Bill Fumerola , eagle , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: advocacy web pages References: <19990509115736.D12236@blues.ghis.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jim Mock wrote: > > On Sat, 08 May 1999 at 16:25:17 -0400, Bill Fumerola wrote: > > On Sat, 8 May 1999, eagle wrote: > > > I was waiting for somebody else to respond to this, the main > > > reason that the advocacy site is not included in the main > > > repository, Is that the design goals of the site, tend to break > > > the concept of mirrors. > > > > What magic does this site do that would wreck the possibility of > > mirrors? > > Well, once the backend is finished, alot of the HTML (the gallery, the > user groups list, etc.) will be generated on-the-fly by various > scripts, etc., from a database. I don't know how many people would > want to have postgres installed along w/apache-php3 to mirror the > FreeBSD site if it was part of the main cvs tree. > Actually, I was told by Jordan that it __would__ be part of the main tree, even though it's mounted on a dub-domain. Nothing I am planning on doing in the HTML portion will be un-mirrorable. In fact, that's the main reason for the e-mailer script, so only a minimal amount of CGI has to be mirrored with the script. Jordan? -- Don Wilde "Bringing the Internet to everyone!" Wilde Media 1380 Rio Rancho Blvd. SE #117 voice: 505-771-0709 Rio Rancho, New Mexico 87124 e-mail: dwilde1@thuntek.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message