Development discussions related to Fedora Core

[Robert Boone]

Hello,

A friend that subscribes to the list sent me this email. I would be
interested in helping with awstats. I love Perl, but I don't know if
thats all it takes. Could you please tell me what the responsibilities
would be.

Robert Boone
> Here's the message from the mailing list about needing a Perl guy
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> Message: 14
> Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:06:40 -0400
> From: Alan Cox <alan at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: webalizer vs awstats in fc3
> To: Development discussions related to Fedora Core
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> On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 02:16:31PM -0400, Tom Diehl wrote:
> > I like this idea also, and since awstats is already in fedora.us it
> should
> > be a simple thing to do. In thinking about this a little more, since
> people
> > are looking for things to drop from core, maybe webalizer should
just
> be
> > dropped and fedora.us actually turned into fedora extras. I know the
> > standard answer is it is coming, but ...
> 
> Having had an initial look at awstats I'm sort of impressed (ok the
fact
> that clicking on the demo got me most stats in Welsh might be bias 8))
> Featurewise it looks a lot better than webalizer, its analysis and
> exports
> seem to work far better although its a fair whack slower on a small
box.
> 
> The big downer is that is in perl, so needs a perl fan inside of Red
Hat
> willing to own it and also to audit the code since its indirectly 
> exposed to the outside world.
> 
> Alan
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