cgit instead of gitweb?

[Simo Sorce]

On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:01:47 -0500 (CDT)
Mike McGrath <mmcgrath at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 30 Jul 2010, Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Mike McGrath wrote:
> > > On Fri, 30 Jul 2010, Adam Jackson wrote:
> > >
> > >> On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 12:41 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > >> > Hi
> > >> >
> > >> > Any particular reason we are using gitweb at
> > >> > http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/.  Cgit is used in
> > >> > freedesktop.org is much more faster and resource efficient.
> > >>
> > >> With my fd.o hat on: Our experience with cgit hasn't been
> > >> completely trouble-free either, it seems to get stuck sometimes
> > >> feeding you old cached data.
> > >>
> > >> If we insist on running gitweb we should at least consider
> > >> running warthog's branch (the version that kernel.org uses):
> > >>
> > >> http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/warthog9/gitweb.git;a=summary
> > >>
> > >
> > > We are.
> > >
> >
> > When will this webpage be available? It is being loaded here since
> > last night. I have been told that the cgi is doing some caching. Any
> > progress report on this?
> >
> 
> It is but the massive number of packages seems to be a problem.  We'll
> figure something out, for now just go to the package you're looking
> for:
> 
> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=nagios.git
> 
> 	-Mike

Mike can't we just have a statically generated page for the root, and
there have links to the single packages, maybe in subpages divided by
groups, or alphabetically ?

Yes, having the status of the repos on the first page is neat but not
worth killing the server for it.

Simo.

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Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York