Hi Damyan, yes I would be very interested in volunteering.
I m a Perl web developer with an urge to help the Debian project.
I would be keen to investigate the cause of the hanging process.
I have sysadmin and DBA experience and be worked with MySQL replication extensively so that might be a solution for the database troubles.
How do I proceed from here?
Thanks
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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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