BFAV email prefix?

Marcus Denker marcus at ira.uka.de
Thu Jul 24 15:04:18 UTC 2003


On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 10:06:52AM -0400, Brent Vukmer wrote:
> [ Bug Fixes Archive Server ]
> 
> The BugFixArchive-Model package is very close to being able to do this,
> as Daniel pointed out.  I'm going to look at the code that Bert's image
> is using and include the functionality that I don't have yet.  The new
> Bug Fixes Archive server will parse the canonical .mbox file ( the one
> available for download from squeakfoundation.org ) into individual .txt
> files.  We will use Apache to serve up the static .txt files.  BTW, for
> the near term, I'm going to continue to use SMTP to populate the
> archive. I've thought seriously about using other means -- for example,
> doing an HTTP POST -- but mail is very simple and robust, and I think
> it's best to stick with it for now.
>
Ok. 
 
> [ Client-Server/Database ]
> 
> I like keeping the queries local.  In a sense, the local BugFixArchive
> object *is* a database, in that it has fairly extensive sorting/querying
> capabilities, and we can always add more.  I also really like that the
> BFAV creates a local repository with all of the .txt files.  If the Bug
> Fixes Archive server goes down, I still have my local repository to work
> with.  I'm really interested to find out how much this off-line
> capability matters to other people...
> 
Yes, working offline is important... for me at last. It's nice
to be able to kill some time harvesting while e.g. on a train.
or in the evening in the park... on the other hand, downloading takes
some time and it might be nice for some people to have a more lightwight
view on the archive... but this might be not so important.


    Marcus 


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