From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat May 8 18:59:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from blues.ghis.net (slwag2p15.ozemail.com.au [203.108.157.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CC1814DA8 for ; Sat, 8 May 1999 18:59:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@blues.ghis.net) Received: (from jim@localhost) by blues.ghis.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA12357; Sun, 9 May 1999 11:57:37 +1000 (EST) Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 11:57:36 +1000 From: Jim Mock To: Bill Fumerola Cc: eagle , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: advocacy web pages Message-ID: <19990509115736.D12236@blues.ghis.net> Reply-To: jim@blues.ghis.net References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 08 May 1999 at 16:25:17 -0400, Bill Fumerola wrote: > On Sat, 8 May 1999, eagle wrote: > > I was waiting for somebody else to respond to this, the main > > reason that the advocacy site is not included in the main > > repository, Is that the design goals of the site, tend to break > > the concept of mirrors. > > What magic does this site do that would wreck the possibility of > mirrors? Well, once the backend is finished, alot of the HTML (the gallery, the user groups list, etc.) will be generated on-the-fly by various scripts, etc., from a database. I don't know how many people would want to have postgres installed along w/apache-php3 to mirror the FreeBSD site if it was part of the main cvs tree. -- Jim Mock System Administrator jim@blues.ghis.net ,-._|\ FreeBSD work: Global Hosting Inet Svcs http://www.ghis.net/ / \ The personal: http://www.ghis.net/~jim/ \_,--._/ Power To The FreeBSD 'zine http://www.freebsdzine.org/ v Serve! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message