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Re: packages.d.o - what has been and what could be



On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 12:19:35AM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
> I've thought about the packages.d.o problems (only i386 and that...)
> and I wonder if I could not do something for Debian and rewrite this
> stuff. This is more a long term plan since I've no time in the next
> weeks (perhaps even in the next two months) but at least I'm
> interested in this problem.
> But before I step deeper into this, I have some questions:
>  - Has anyone tried to solve this before? and if yes: how far
>    he has get and where failed he? devel/website/todo is very
>    vague about this.
>  - My programming experiences in this area are mostly
>    MySQL with Perl-CGI-Frontend but with much much smaller
>    databases and fewer users. Is this a good approach? and if 
>    no: why? The queries are not very complicated, its all readonly
>    and probably you can catch some load by generating static versions
>    of the most wanted pages (i386 comes to mind). How many load do you
>    have to expect?

I mayself code only some i18n stuff. see http://ddtp.debian.org/packages.debian.org/

If you code a new packages.d.o, please make translation possible!

Gruss
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Michael Bramer  -  a Debian Linux Developer      http://www.debsupport.de
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