From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat May 8 12:15:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mail-gw2adm.rcsntx.swbell.net (mail-gw2.rcsntx.swbell.net [151.164.30.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DC5115670 for ; Sat, 8 May 1999 12:15:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@holly.dyndns.org) Received: from holly.dyndns.org (ppp-207-193-12-42.hstntx.swbell.net [207.193.12.42]) by mail-gw2adm.rcsntx.swbell.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA22275; Sat, 8 May 1999 14:15:29 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from chris@localhost) by holly.dyndns.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA20415; Sat, 8 May 1999 14:16:40 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from chris) Date: Sat, 8 May 1999 14:16:39 -0500 From: Chris Costello To: Joel Sutton Cc: Nicole Harrington , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [ADV] Re: www.tunelinux.com - an interesting idea... Message-ID: <19990508141639.B20366@holly.dyndns.org> Reply-To: chris@calldei.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/0.96.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Joel Sutton on Fri, May 07, 1999 at 08:32:40PM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, May 7, 1999, Joel Sutton wrote: > I agree. All we need now are some original ideas.... You wouldn't believe how many ideas I shot down before I came up with this. > I like this idea, but wouldn't it be better to keep these packages in the > ports collection? That's mostly what I had in mind. I would use the ports system's "make package" target to build the package, and provide both ports tarballs and packages, but I must say this: I don't have the resources to make nearly the amount of things I have come up with. > I'd be willing to put something together with PHP3. "put something together" - I assume you mean building the website and not providing a package for PHP3? (That already exists!) > > 1) Expected disk space needed. > > I'm not sure about this one. It would really depend on the popularity of > the project. This would be a knowledge base rather than a "file store" so > that should limit the space required somewhat. We'd have to define some > limits in both disk space, types of information and the age of the > information. An average conf-file package shouldn't go over 1 MB, an average custom-built package shouldn't go over 10 MB. Is this reasonable? > > > 2) Other resouces needed (I assume just web server and ftp server is needed) > > Apache > PHP3 > MySql/Postrgresql > FTP server (for packages???) If I were to work on this project, I would like to use MySQL, unless there are serious performance issues with it that I'm not aware of. > > > 3) Who would be in charge of the project > > Someone who knows about performace tuning systems. This really rules me > out. :-) A show of hands perhaps? For the information to be effective > there would need to be some sort of approval process - which translates to > someones time unfortunately... Let's clone David Greenman. > > Cheers, Joel... > > --- > Joel Sutton | Busy Bee Consulting > Phone: 0409 426-563 | Melbourne, Australia > Email: jsutton@genesis.net.au | http://www.genesis.net.au/~jsutton > VicFUG Webmaster/Acting President | http://www.vicfug.au.freebsd.org/ -- Chris Costello Watch out for off-by-one errors. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message