Re: local search support

*We*, the systems@ people were making decisions in realtime to combat the load. Don't give me crap about unilateral decision making; we spent a lot of time on this yesterday, trying many different approaches to make things work, different server software configurations, bandwidth throttling, content compression etc. etc. etc. etc! In the end, at 3am (my time) *we* decided that we would go for the current search engine redirection because not enough mirrors supported the ht://dig system and too much load was still evident and too many people were using these inefficient magic URLs. Now, if all the mirror maintainers all set up ht://dig, we can still make use of it and not have to rely on google; I don't care how it looks to people outside; I care about having the box running. As I've tried to emphasize several times now *this is a temporary measure*, taken after trying a whole range of different techniques to avoid the hardware blowing up. Sure, we can revert, but then we won't have a machine left alive to run the site. Now, lets stop bitching and start fixing the phpweb so it plays nice on the hardware? --Wez. On Fri, 23 May 2003, Gabor Hojtsy wrote: > Probably because phpweb is opensource and so noone is the only author of > the code. Just when Andrew got on 'phpweb is open source' and said, hey > i'll make note maintainers life happier with having prevalidation of > notes, Rasmus replied: "It is definitely a huge major change and not the > way things are done in this project. Please revert." > > So is open source === do anything you like without discussion, cause you > can? As discussion takes the time from valuable guys to do The Right > Thing[tm]? > > Don't you think we have *options*. This is not a parse error, where you > need to delete a } to fix the code. This is a multiple choice > solution... And every choice needs a lot of work and discussion. > > You askes mirror maintainers to set up a htdig for local search just > some hours ago. After that you switched the whole stuff to altheweb, > then google. Do you think that seeing this from outside, this seems to > be the deeply thought out right thing? > > Goba > > >