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