[haiku-depot-web] Re: Update w/ HVIF Icon-Storage

  • From: Oliver Tappe <zooey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-depot-web@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 11:46:32 +0100

Hi,

On 2014-03-27 at 11:11:43 [+0100], Andrew Lindesay <apl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
[ ... ]
> 
>  > one more question I forgot to ask: When one uploads some icons and
>  > screenshots to packages on the server, is this work that is
>  > potentially wasted? Or will this stuff remain in the data-base from
>  > now on, no matter what?
> 
> Good question; Oliver may be able to clear this up.  I was under the
> impression that the current deployment was a testing / development
> deployment, but I am not too sure if it will evolve into the production
> one.  If this is the case, I wonder if we should see if it is possible
> to get another instance running for testing / development purposes?

I'm really open to what seems best - it's not much of an effort to keep two 
separate instances of the webservice running. So far, I considered the 
current installation as a development/testing deployment, too. Once it's 
deemed to work good enough, we could just clone it into the production 
site, I suppose.

> In any case, the images' binary data are stored in the Postgres database
> alongside the meta-data for the packages and so on.
> 
> > The server responds extremely fast to these requests, too.
> 
> Good to hear; this makes me wonder -- Oliver; when you get time, I
> wonder if you could enable mod_deflate for the following mime types;
> 
>    * application/json
>    * text/html
>    * application/javascript
>    * text/css
> 
> It may make the initial page-download a bit quicker as I don't have a
> minifier in the build process (yet!).

Done.

cheers,
        Oliver

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