Re: [gentoo-dev] www-servers/boa wants YOU...

[Bastiaan Visser]

On Wednesday 06 June 2007 06:10, Ryan Hill wrote:
> ...to maintain it.
>
>   Boa is "a single-tasking HTTP server. That means that unlike
> traditional Web servers, it does not fork for each incoming connection,
> nor does it fork many copies of itself to handle multiple connections.
> It internally multiplexes all of the ongoing HTTP connections, and forks
> only for CGI programs (which must be separate processes), automatic
> directory generation, and automatic file gunzipping. Tests show boa is
> capable of handling up to several hundred hits per second on a 100 Mhz
> Pentium, dozens of hits per second on a lowly 20 MHz 386/SX, and
> thousands on more powerful CPUs."
>
> It is currently under the mask of the tree-cleaners.  However, Gentoo
> user Jochen Schlick has made a case for keeping it around and has gone
> as far as providing a fix for bug #102174, the bug that led to its
> masking.  Upstream appears dead, but boa is still being carried by
> several other distros (fedora, debian, freebsd).  There is one other
> bug, #101600.
>
> If you or your herd team (www-servers ping) can find a home for this
> low-maintenance package, please add yourself to the metadata.
>
> Thanks.
>
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102174
>
>
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Just want to mention that I'd realy like this package to be kept in portage, i 
use it on many machines for static content.
I dont know how much love this package needs, i use an overlay right now to 
keep this package available, with some personal changes. If i can help 
keeping this package i'd be glad to.

Bas.
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