| Pierre-Alain Joye 2005-01-25, 8:56 am |
| On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 04:51:31 -0500
tobias@schlitt.info (Tobias Schlitt) wrote:
> OK, if you don't see that approving/deleting trackbacks belongs to
> a webmasters action, I propose to send the trackback mails to
> pear-qa. The
> reason for that is, that the goal of my trackback implementation
> is to
> raise the ammount of documentation for packages, which raises the
> quality of our packages.
Couple of lines in a blog entry are not really documentations... I'm
pretty sure most of them will be from blogs only.
> Sorry, Pierre, but I do not see, that approving trackbacks is just
> a matter of the maintainer. What if he's on holiday? What if he
> simply ignores the trackback mails? What if a package is orphan,
> what was not recognized until now?
Orphaned packages is special case which requires special actions for
any single process in pear (RFC on its way today).
> We will lose a pretty low
> hanging fruit of docs for our packages. Having those notifications
> on a publically available mailinglist ensures, that trackbacks are
> well maintained and approved/deleted ASAP after their arrival.
Maintainers are responsible for all the informations related to
their packages and available through pearweb. I do not see a single
reason to change this fact for the trackbacks.
--Pierre
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