The patch needed some minor changes and clarifications. I haven't received a resubmission yet.
Chris On 6/27/05, Mitchell Mebane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Lee Lambert wrote: > On Wednesday 08 June 2005 08:32 pm, Mitchell Mebane wrote: > > > > I'm putting together a Summer of Code proposal for working on the AppDB. > I've been talking with Chris Morgan, and he has a few suggestions, but I > was looking for more. Does anybody have any features they'd like added > to the AppDB, quirks they'd like worked out, or things of that nature? > > I have some ideas about the AppDB, but I've been working on some of them > myself, and others really need the approval of the WinHQ webmaster more than > anything. Still, I'd like to hear what other people think of them: > > 1. The AppDB, Bugzilla and the Wiki ought to send last-modified information > for most of their pages. This would speed things up, in some cases, for > dialup users, but the real advantage would be as protection against a > slashdotting or onslaught of AOL users. Many of the pages also send other > headers that prevent caching of positive lookups. > > Today I sent a patch to the AppDB maintainer to do this for images, which > are > probably the biggest performance hit (they cause the AppDB main page to take > about 30 seconds to load over a dialup connection). However, almost any > page in each of these databases could in theory be cached. Bugzilla bug > display pages already display a "Last modified" datum in the text of the > page, and so do Wiki pages (bug 2889 mentions this). > > Several of the AppDB tables already have TIMESTAMP columns, so I was > planning > to write some code to just gather them all together and send the latest one > as the last-modified date. The only problem is that if a page contains an > item which is then deleted, its timestamp will go backwards. > > > David, > > I don't see this patch on wine-patches. Did you send this in? > > > --Mitchell Mebane > > > > -- > I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking > up something and finding something else on the way. > -- Franklin P. Adams >
