Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 14:50:54 +0000 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.org>, doc@FreeBSD.org, committers@FreeBSD.org, dgl@bsdi.com, jim@cdrom.com, papowell@astart.com, wpaul@FreeBSD.org, ceren@magnesium.net, ryan@ryan.net, murray@bsdi.com Subject: Re: The website Message-ID: <20000627145054.N1582@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> References: <20000625200029.I470@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> <17146.962016763@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 12:52:43PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> Go For It!
Thanks. But I stress that I want to see others "going for it" as well.
The past few posts from me have outlined what I think needs to be done on
the doc. project. This is not the same thing as what I, personally, can
accomplish on the doc. project -- certainly not unless someone wants to
fund me to do it, and even then I have existing and up-coming commitments
that make this sort of tricky.
If you (generic "you") have read anything here and think "I could do that"
or "I was looking for a way to contribute" or even "I'm a CS student and
need to do a project in order to graduate, that looks interesting" then
say so.
> A few comments:
>
> * Database driven content is OK, as long as it is not the main page,
> currently our cvs-web and search engines work OK in the overall
> mirror strategy.
Depends. If we rely on database content for the majority of the site then
we may as well not bother with mirrors. While this is tempting, I don't
think it's going to be possible to put www.freebsd.org anywhere that's
sufficiently well connected that the rest of the planet can get to it
without worrying about latency or downtime.
> * Other topic for dynamic content: supported hardware.
Already covered. See my messages to -doc and -current about this. However,
while this would be dynamic, it would be generated when the web site is
built periodically, rather than on the fly each time.
> * Other topic for dynamic content: I would like if cvsweb somehow
> could locate all files relevant to a specific commit, I know this
> is somewhat difficult but It would be nice anyway.
Don't know if CVS can even do this. Joe K had a prototype implementation
that does this, but as I recall it needed a backend database and took a
few hours to index the source tree.
> * Other topic for dynamic content: HTML'ed page with the last 24h
> of commit logs, ie: pointers into cvsweb to see the diffs.
Code contributions to do this welcome.
> * Other topic for dynamic content: A place to keep track of patchsets
> up for review, test and comment. Ie: submitter provides patch and
> comments and a page is created, linked to from the patchindex and
> it is added to the "new or updated" patches. submitter can update
> patch as it develops. One way would be to define a convention like:
> $HOME/review/$patchname/{README,*}
Yep, like it. Anyone want to develop this further?
N
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