From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ln5q4-0005S1-9j for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 27 Mar 2009 06:46:48 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2359BE0934; Fri, 27 Mar 2009 06:46:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from foo.birdnet.se (foo.birdnet.se [213.88.146.6]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B7926E0934 for ; Fri, 27 Mar 2009 06:46:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 18515 invoked by uid 501); 27 Mar 2009 06:46:45 -0000 Message-ID: <20090327064645.18514.qmail@stuge.se> Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 07:46:45 +0100 From: Peter Stuge To: gentoo-catalyst@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] GSoC: Create a Web-based Gentoo image builder Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-catalyst@lists.gentoo.org References: <49CBB533.4090709@gmail.com> <20090326212132.31050.qmail@stuge.se> <49CBFE29.4080505@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-catalyst@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-catalyst@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49CBFE29.4080505@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 056571a9-ad77-4102-9c01-b2a334e23231 X-Archives-Hash: 2106182c5564b65dd748f802ea620ad1 Eugen Serban wrote: > To be honest, what really concerns me is the architecture of the > server (cpu and hdd). I consider that to be mostly irrelevant. There can be a simple queueing system and a build cluster with distcc. > But if I succeed in making it, even for one connection simulated on > my computer, then I am sure that it will be a great success. I consider the challenge to be how to provide a useful interface for creating spec files. Also - the web site has to simply start the process, and then notify the initiating user out of band when the build is finished because the request will otherwise take much too long. //Peter