Bug#468183: ITP: monkey -- small webserver based on the HTTP/1.1 protocol

2008-02-29 Thread Gunnar Wolf
William Pitcock dijo [Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 05:41:25AM -0600]: > Clearly these packages are different enough to somebody if they are > going to the effort of packaging them. Perhaps they have a superior > configuration format or some other non-notable feature. > > But if you are worried about the Q

Bug#468183: ITP: monkey -- small webserver based on the HTTP/1.1 protocol

2008-02-29 Thread Gunnar Wolf
William Pitcock dijo [Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 05:41:25AM -0600]: > But if you are worried about the QA and security team, then why not > create an unsupported repo. It could even be a good solution towards > recruiting new DDs. > > Lets call it, say, 'community', 'extras', or 'unsupported'. > > The

Bug#468183: ITP: monkey -- small webserver based on the HTTP/1.1 protocol

2008-02-29 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 10:33 -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > But the user should not have to install 10 small HTTP servers just to > know what's the goddamn difference. That's extremely unhelpful from > us. We should tell the prospective user at a first glance why he wants > one httpd over another.

Bug#468183: ITP: monkey -- small webserver based on the HTTP/1.1 protocol

2008-02-29 Thread Gunnar Wolf
William Pitcock dijo [Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 08:02:39PM -0600]: > Why does a package need to clarify what's different about it than others > like it? Debian is about having the possibility of choosing between many > options for the same thing e.g. openssh, dropbear for sshd, 12 different > httpd opti

Bug#468183: Unsupported? (Was: Bug#468183: ITP: monkey -- small webserver based on the HTTP/1.1 protocol)

2008-02-29 Thread Thorsten Schmale
I created an updated description. Please see below. One thing i forgot to mention earlier was the feature of logging the http requests directly to a mysql-database. I'm not quite sure, but I think this feature is not supported by most other webservers. Description: small http server Monkey is

Bug#468183: Unsupported? (Was: Bug#468183: ITP: monkey -- small webserver based on the HTTP/1.1 protocol)

2008-02-29 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, William Pitcock wrote: But if you are worried about the QA and security team, then why not create an unsupported repo. It could even be a good solution towards recruiting new DDs. Lets call it, say, 'community', 'extras', or 'unsupported'. Please don't! Kind regards

Bug#468183: ITP: monkey -- small webserver based on the HTTP/1.1 protocol

2008-02-29 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Fri, February 29, 2008 12:41, William Pitcock wrote: > But if you are worried about the QA and security team, then why not > create an unsupported repo. It could even be a good solution towards > recruiting new DDs. I have no intent of stopping you to create any third party repositories. > Sur

Bug#468183: ITP: monkey -- small webserver based on the HTTP/1.1 protocol

2008-02-29 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 11:16 +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > On Fri, February 29, 2008 03:02, William Pitcock wrote: > > Why does a package need to clarify what's different about it than others > > like it? Debian is about having the possibility of choosing between many > > options for the same

Bug#468183: ITP: monkey -- small webserver based on the HTTP/1.1 protocol

2008-02-29 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Fri, February 29, 2008 03:02, William Pitcock wrote: > Why does a package need to clarify what's different about it than others > like it? Debian is about having the possibility of choosing between many > options for the same thing e.g. openssh, dropbear for sshd, 12 different > httpd options, e

Bug#468183: ITP: monkey -- small webserver based on the HTTP/1.1 protocol

2008-02-28 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/28/08 20:02, William Pitcock wrote: > On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 18:47 -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: [snip] >> Even there, it looks very much like other "very small" webservers, >> such as boa, bozohttpd, cherokee, fnord, lighttpd, micro-httpd, >> mini-ht

Bug#468183: ITP: monkey -- small webserver based on the HTTP/1.1 protocol

2008-02-28 Thread William Pitcock
On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 18:47 -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Guus Sliepen dijo [Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 07:55:08PM +0100]: > > > Monkey is a Web Server written in C based on the HTTP/1.1 protocol. The > > > objective is to develop a fast, efficient, small and easy to configure > > > webserver. > > > Althou

Bug#468183: ITP: monkey -- small webserver based on the HTTP/1.1 protocol

2008-02-28 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Guus Sliepen dijo [Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 07:55:08PM +0100]: > > Monkey is a Web Server written in C based on the HTTP/1.1 protocol. The > > objective is to develop a fast, efficient, small and easy to configure > > webserver. > > Although it is very small and does not need much system resources, it

Bug#468183: ITP: monkey -- small webserver based on the HTTP/1.1 protocol

2008-02-28 Thread Thorsten Schmale
Hi, @Guus: thanks for your hints. I can easily change that. @Nico: there is not much difference betweeen monkey and other webservers. There are already lots of other webservers in the repositories like mini_httpd, micro_httpd, dhttpd. Do they differ that much? Debian is always full of pride rega

Bug#468183: ITP: monkey -- small webserver based on the HTTP/1.1 protocol

2008-02-27 Thread Nico Golde
Hi Thorsten, * Thorsten Schmale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-02-27 16:19]: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Thorsten Schmale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Package name: monkey > Version : 0.9.2 > Upstream Author : Eduardo Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http:/

Bug#468183: ITP: monkey -- small webserver based on the HTTP/1.1 protocol

2008-02-27 Thread Guus Sliepen
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 03:51:38PM +0100, Thorsten Schmale wrote: > * Package name: monkey > Description : monkey is a small webserver based on the HTTP/1.1 protocol Don't include the name of the package in the short description. Also, "HTTP/1.1 protocol" is more something for the long

Bug#468183: ITP: monkey -- small webserver based on the HTTP/1.1 protocol

2008-02-27 Thread Thorsten Schmale
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thorsten Schmale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: monkey Version : 0.9.2 Upstream Author : Eduardo Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://monkeyd.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description