Hello,
I'd be happy to participate in this work. I recently finished switching the DB in one of my Perl apps from MLDBM to MySQL. Where are discussions going to take place? Keith. On 2013-04-26 6:19, Damyan Ivanov wrote: > 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
