Hi, (I quote most of the mail for reference)
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 01:19:16PM +0300, 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. I tried to get involved a few month ago, but I did not get to bootstrap the application. However during debconf13 I met Damyan and he helped me to get started so I had a VM at my site with working packages.debian.org code. We also improved the documentation and fixed a syntax error in the process. I also made changes so we can switch from modperl to fastcgi. These are some simple changes as I wanted to keep it as simple as possible e.g. http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=webwml/packages.git;a=commitdiff;h=5b1058f0451276e8d11edd10c55a813436f060aa Fast-forward: yesterday zobel and symoon deployed the code. Now it runs on apache2 + fastcgi. This is just the start: I intend to work on this further as I am interested and things are far from perfect. I will post about how can we move forward to use a real database (as requested by DSA). I have several possible solutions in mind. Stay tuned! and thanks to all who was involed :) Regards, cstamas -- CSILLAG Tamas (cstamas) - http://cstamas.hu/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-www-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130827062552.GB27696@rivendell
