Re: Annotated manual under mirror tree

> > I have a patch to the phpweb that adds precisely this functionality. It work > > by querying www.php.net for the comments for a particular page, getting them > > back in XML, and putting them on the page. > > > > I asked a question on this list a couple of days as to whether the XML > > requirements was reasonable, or should I use another simpler format, but > > didn't get any comments back. > > Won't this defy the point of mirroring by making the mirrors as slow as > the main site (at least in the annotated manual)? Have you put in the > facility to cache the results? Yes, it does partly defeat the point of mirroring, but the failover is turned off by default. I released the change "early" to satisfy a request by another mirror-maintainer from this list. The patch is a work in progress, and caching is certainly something that is I'm looking at doing ASAP. I'll post here when it's finished, tested, and committed. Simon