Some unscientific timing results (on the Python source tree)

Barry Warsaw barry at canonical.com
Tue Mar 25 23:23:37 GMT 2008


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On Mar 24, 2008, at 5:43 PM, Matt Nordhoff wrote:
> Barry Warsaw wrote:
>> It's very possible that we (Thomas and I) didn't set up  
>> code.python.org
>> most optimally.  A brief description of what we did follows;  
>> suggestions
>> for improvement are welcome!
>>
>> First, we wanted to use as much of the existing svn infrastructure as
>> possible.  Write access to svn is controlled by a common user, with a
>> single authorized_keys file containing a command to run svnserve with
>> the proper arguments (including -t and --tunnel-user).  We simply
>> extended all that infrastructure, creating a new shared user with a
>> different authorized_keys file.  This latter used a command of "bzr
>> serve" with arguments translated to make sense for Bazaar.
>>
>> http access was even simpler; we just set up an alias pointing into  
>> the
>> Bazaar shared repository directory.
>>
>> If anybody is interested and has ideas on how to tune the server  
>> side,
>> ping me on irc.  I'm 'barry' on irc.freenode.net, and usually hang  
>> out
>> on #mailman and #launchpad (and now, #bzr).
>>
>> -Barry
>
> You could set up an (anonymous, read-only) HTTP smart server (bzr 
> +http).
> It requires CGI or FastCGI or mod_python or somesuch.

Thanks for the pointer.  I've forwarded this to my cohort so if one of  
us has a few spare cycles we might try it out.

- -Barry

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