Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 14:58:45 +0200 From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@panke.de.freebsd.org> To: jim@blues.ghis.net, Bill Fumerola <billf@jade.chc-chimes.com> Cc: eagle <eagle@eagle.phc.igs.net>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: advocacy web pages Message-ID: <19990509145845.63998@panke.de.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <19990509115736.D12236@blues.ghis.net>; from Jim Mock on Sun, May 09, 1999 at 11:57:36AM %2B1000 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990508001851.83419A-100000@eagle.phc.igs.net> <Pine.BSF.3.96.990508162404.5882A-100000@jade.chc-chimes.com> <19990509115736.D12236@blues.ghis.net>
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On 1999-05-09 11:57:36 +1000, 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. A postgres database for the user groups??? We have currently only 25 user groups! Anythink less than 1000 entries could be better done in a text based file, like ports/INDEX or en/commercial/consulting.raw -- Wolfram Schneider <wosch@freebsd.org> http://wolfram.schneider.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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