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Date:      Thu, 5 Aug 1999 01:42:52 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Bill Fumerola <billf@jade.chc-chimes.com>
To:        Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Bill Swingle <unfurl@dub.net>, advocacy@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: advocacy site
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908050141270.26385-100000@jade.chc-chimes.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990804233255.A95138@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>

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On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Nik Clayton wrote:

> > True, however, with a website that should be very dynamic, do you want to
> > see 500(well, not that many) commits a day to an advocacy tree?
> 
> Would it be that dynamic?  The main FreeBSD source tree (on a good day)
> gets ~ 200 separate commits per day.  Why would the advocacy site get 
> anything near that amount of traffic?

It's either a database backend, or commits to datafiles.

> > Databases accept remote connections for a reason.
> 
> I don't follow your point here.

Keep the code, pages, etc in CVS (which can be mirrored)
and have mirror sites do replication of the databases. It makes being a
mirror site more difficult, however, we FreeBSDers are pretty sharp and
could set something like that up.

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