From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Aug 4 23:31:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C376514D69; Wed, 4 Aug 1999 23:31:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA95531; Wed, 4 Aug 1999 23:32:55 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 23:32:55 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Bill Fumerola Cc: Bill Swingle , Nik Clayton , advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: advocacy site Message-ID: <19990804233255.A95138@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> References: <19990804130757.A90374@dub.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Bill Fumerola on Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 03:29:37PM -0400 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 03:29:37PM -0400, Bill Fumerola wrote: > On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Bill Swingle wrote: > > > These are exactly the issues that need to be resolved. The idea of a > > database back end for the content is nice but is it really necessary? If > > we can for go the DB backend, integration with the existing site would > > be much easier. I think that solving this one issue would make the others > > quite a bit more addressable :) > > True, however, with a website that should be very dynamic, do you want to > see 500(well, not that many) commits a day to an advocacy tree? Would it be that dynamic? The main FreeBSD source tree (on a good day) gets ~ 200 separate commits per day. Why would the advocacy site get anything near that amount of traffic? > Databases accept remote connections for a reason. I don't follow your point here. N -- [intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed, non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs the links. -- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@cs.colorado.edu> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message