[arch-dev-public] archweb, archportal and the pkgstats page
Hi all, this is kind of a response to http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2010-September/017889... The pkgstats page is hosted on archlinux.de for historical reasons. That's where I started experimenting with these stats before maintaining web stuff on .org, too. But it does not really belong there and the code is quite ugly. My idea is to move it to a dedicated site like pkgstats.archlinux.org. This will mainly consist of a script that regularly creates some static html pages. Some of the calculations are quite expensive and for the future I'd like to render some graphs for trends and long term stats. For now I see no reason to learn python/django for this. Looks a lot like overkill to me. Once these is also decoupled from the archlinux.de site I'd plan to rename it to archportal and make it a lightweight webapp for local arch communities. It'll be translatable, configurable and should even run on cheap shared hosting without the need of any special infrastructure. I really like the django-based archweb, but imho it wouldn't be an ideal base for this purpose. Most features are not needed and specific to the arch main site. Also running this on shared hosting might be difficult. That's why I suggest to keep those separate and have both solutinos as simple as possible. Greetings, Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre
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Pierre Schmitz