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, etc.

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 thing

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. Sure

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: 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: 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

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. I

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 main

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 QA

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

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 has a

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. Although it is

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-httpd or

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 :

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 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 :