Re: PHP Freaks -> Official Mirror?

Good job on this one Goba. You handled it well. -Rasmus On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Gabor Hojtsy wrote: > > What mechanisms do you use to add a site to the Community Links section? I > > don't see how our site should not be listed but yet the PHP Developer Network > > does, but I didn't want to mention that. > > There are no mechanisms for that. It is not to list PHP sites, it is to > list sites from the community of which PHP is part of. > > > Would it make any difference if I made a cash donation to the PHP foundation? > > I'm willing to do what it takes to get more recognition from you guys. It > > shouldn't have to come down to that, but jeesh, if that's what it takes. > > None of the pages we link to have submitted any cash donations. There is > no such requirement, nor we are going to endorse anybody because he pays > to us. > > > I understand that bug reporters can be quite nasty. I'm not a bug reporter, I'm > > a person who dedicates more than my life to PHP and all that you do. I'm a true > > PHP Freak. I'm trying my best to ensure I help new people gain interest in PHP > > and help PHP take over as the primary scripting language on the internet, even > > if that's not your intentions. However, I feel that I'm the 'bastard > > child' of > > PHP and you guys look down on me and our site because for some reason which I > > can't understand. I don't know what I did to get this reputation, or why, but > > that's the impression I get. > > We would not like to endorse any particular PHP community, but we would > like to give equal chance to every one of them. Therefore if we would > add your link to the frontpage, other communities would have a reason to > ask for similar links. But our frontpage is not for that, we have a > links page for that reason. > > > In my recent dealings with Goba, I've offered to run an official PHP.net mirror > > in the US, and he declined, I asked for a link and he declined. I'm more than > > willing to bend over backwards and sideways for you guys, but it's as if I or > > my community is not good enough. It's just outright sad. > > We have rules for mirror acceptance. For countries with two working > mirrors we are not going to add more. US has four working mirrors, which > is quite above two, but its reasonable because it's not a usual sized > country. I would say "No, thanks" to anyone who would come to us to ask > to add a new US mirrors, regardless of who he is, or what is his > background. We have a two mirror rule to prevent our rsync server to be > under a huge load. But this is written on our mirroring page in a very > much emphasized way to prevent us from explaining it from time to time, > but people just don't seem to read it and then take the "no" answer as a > personal attack. > > For the community link, I guess I have explained it already. BTW I have > removed the PHPDevNet link in CVS, they are already linked on links.php. > The link will be removed effectively when the mirror sites update... > > Keep up the community support, > Goba >