Re: Re: Publicly listed channels (was [PEAR-DEV] Considering package proposal:

Bertrand Mansion wrote:

+1 for http://channels.php.net where developers could register their channels (even better is Channel Servers could automatically register using a protocol and be pinged regularly to check availability) and the Channel Groups offers some sort of verification (this channel was 'verified' 2 weeks ago...). This would work like a tracker (bittorrent comes to mind maybe).

In my idea a Channel Group might do this maintenance job. Channels shouldn't be mixed with PEAR in order to avoid the confusion as they might also be PHP Extensions channels, or whatever not related to PEAR in any way except the package.xml file. Greg's idea of accepting only some channels defeats the point of having channels. It's a chicken and egg problem. You accept only popular channels but you don't help them to become popular by registering them. And is the size of the user base an accurate criteria ? Some very useful maths channels (think Jesus... ;) ) might only be used by a few people.

I am beginning to think that if at all http://channels.php.net seems to be the best location for all of this. Then again we can hardly decide on such a subdomain on our own. But aside from that I am beginning to wonder if its even in the realm of php.net to solve the above mentioned "chicken and egg" problem. Isnt this more what freshmeat.net is about? regards, Lukas