Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 08:52:05 +0000 (GMT) From: eagle <eagle@eagle.phc.igs.net> To: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@panke.de.freebsd.org> Cc: jim@blues.ghis.net, Bill Fumerola <billf@jade.chc-chimes.com>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: advocacy web pages Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990509085035.58139B-100000@eagle.phc.igs.net> In-Reply-To: <19990509145845.63998@panke.de.freebsd.org>
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On Sun, 9 May 1999, Wolfram Schneider wrote: > 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 > Postgres will be in use to maintain several other things, so it seemed fitting that since it was already there and in use by the site that we use it to automate, the newsgroup stuff as well. Rob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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