Curtis Olson wrote: > Hi Pete, > > Definitely nice work on the page layout. It's my job to play devil's > advocate so to speak, so don't take this as criticism, but instead I'm > just trying to think through all the important issues beyond "hey that > looks really nice." > > I'm not very familiar with google apps engine which you used to > develop this page, but it does look like a very nice and powerful > service. There would be lots of good points to using it. > > On the other hand we should consider and discuss some of the possible > down sides to google apps engine. > > - Everything we develop for this site and all the database data is in > a format that depends on google's proprietary services. > > - We would be forced to host the site on google's servers (free > hosting up to a certain bandwidth/cpu limitation) > > - There would be no possibility of ever moving/porting the site to > another host because the entire site is dependent on the google apps > infrastructure. > > - Do we want to lock ourselves into google? These issues worry me also, and indeed pointing www.flightgear.org to fg-www.appspot.com is likely to have other problems (major 404's will need to be handled)
A Major issues is that GAE does not support binary files very well, eg gallery, so I'm not sure how this would work. One possibility would be to rename the current machine as "www2." or "stash." and using it as the binary storage. The main site fg-www has no database, so the design could be ported to the current site quite easily, as it used the Django templating engine. Does the current server have python or php installed ? > > We might decide that none of these issues are an overriding concern. > I use google for my email, I use google docs more and more heavily, I > use google search 100's of times a day, I have a google android cell > phone, I use google's calendar service, I basically don't use my nuvi > any more now that google maps came out with a live navigation > application that runs on my phone. I've been running google chrome on > my desktop now instead of firefox because it uses a lot fewer system > resources for the 30-40 web tabs I have open across 3 virtual desktops > at any given time on my computer. I'm probably still forgetting half > the google things I use every day. I'd be SOL if google evaporated > from the planet. So what's one more dependency? Maybe we should ask Google to sponsor FlightGear? > But that said, we should make sure we go a step beyond "looks great" > and understand what we would be getting ourselves into, and at least > make some conscious decision (even if we don't have 100% group > agreement ... we never have 100% agreement.) :-) > Can I make a suggestion. Shall I knock up a "report" of the way it could go so issues can be identified ? pete ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
