From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun May 9 6: 2: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from baerenklau.de.freebsd.org (baerenklau.de.freebsd.org [195.185.195.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9A8B14CFE for ; Sun, 9 May 1999 06:02:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from w@panke.de.freebsd.org) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by baerenklau.de.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with UUCP id PAA06807; Sun, 9 May 1999 15:01:45 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from w@panke.de.freebsd.org) Received: (from w@localhost) by paula.panke.de.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.8.8) id OAA01902; Sun, 9 May 1999 14:58:45 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from w) Message-ID: <19990509145845.63998@panke.de.freebsd.org> Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 14:58:45 +0200 From: Wolfram Schneider To: jim@blues.ghis.net, Bill Fumerola Cc: eagle , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: advocacy web pages References: <19990509115736.D12236@blues.ghis.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <19990509115736.D12236@blues.ghis.net>; from Jim Mock on Sun, May 09, 1999 at 11:57:36AM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 http://wolfram.schneider.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message