Re: Next generation packages.debian.org
Hi.
Are you aware of efforts conducted in order to rewrite the PTS
(packages.qa.debian.org)... I'm not sure how much rewrite is expected on
packages.debian.org... but in case...
My 2 cents,
Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org> writes:
> Hi,
>
> Short story: developers needed for improving the web application
> behind packages.debian.org. djpig cc-ed because of a rumour of
> existing attempt of such an improvement.
>
> Long story:
>
> A couple of days ago DSA upgraded one of the hosts that is serving
> packages.debian.org. Since then, apache processes seem to hang after
> some time hogging CPUs and the service is unresponsible.
>
> During discussions, DSA requested that the web application should be
> changed so that:
> - it lives outside of the web server process; preferably in fcgid
> environment
> - it uses a real database that could be mirrored easier than BDB
> (which they say is a nightmare to mirror)
> Another idea is to make the application only present information and
> do no aggregation whatsoever. FTP-masters are ready to provide
> anything that is needed for this to work.
>
> Frank, in case you worked in this direction, would it be possible to
> publish your work?
>
> Anyone from the Perl group interested in joining this effort?
>
> The current code is available at
> git://anonscm.debian.org/git/webwml/packages.git
>
> Cheers,
> dam
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