may be too difficult to upgrade due to resource demands.
Only depend on Free Software packages which exist in the "main"
-section of Debian 7.0 and later. (We will bump version requirements
-as time passes, but this is current as of January 2016).
+section of Debian "stable" distribution. That is Debian 9.x
+("stretch") as of this writing, but "oldstable" (8.x, "jessie")
+remains supported for v1 repositories.
+
In general, we favor mature and well-tested old things rather than
the shiny new.
Avoid relying on compiled modules too much. Even if it is Free,
-compiled code makes packages more expensive to audit, build, and
+compiled code makes packages more expensive to audit, build,
distribute and verify. public-inbox itself will only be implemented
in scripting languages (currently Perl 5).
Performance should be reasonably good for server administrators, too,
and we will sacrifice features to achieve predictable performance.
+Encouraging folks to self-host will be easier with lower hardware
+requirements.
See design_www.txt and design_notes.txt in the Documentation/
directory for design decisions made during development.