On 30/05/08 at 00:33 +0200, sean finney wrote: > hi folks, > > just a quick update, the PoC that i was doing was quickly getting complicated > enough that i've abandoned it in favor of an initial implementation code that > will hopefully be useful in the final version as well. thus it has > introduced some more delay, as i was evaluating a few different > tools/bindings/etc. Cool :-) > - partial source archive mirror with some sample packages, via reprepro > - python script for generating static content > - python-cheetah for template output generation > - python-debian for parsing various archive/control files > - python-pygments for diff markup How much static content will you have? I mean: it's not like this service will receive millions of requests per day. It could be better to have only a few static pages, and do everything else on-demand. > one open question i have now is with regards to the eventual hosting of the > system: does it seem reasonable that the final version could either coexist > on an existing archive, or alternatively have enough space for the .dsc > and .diff.gz files from the source packages being tracked to be stored > alongside it? Yes. I'm sure that you will receive offers to host this service on a suitable host, when necessary. -- | Lucas Nussbaum | lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: lucas@nussbaum.fr GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F |
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