Re: Simple system for channel maintenance

On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 17:08 -0400, Greg Beaver wrote: > Hi all, > > First off, I am opposed to any automated addition of servers. Can we > say channel spam? I will never allow something that makes it possible > for spammers to add pear.poker.com as a "channel" :) > > Adding a channel should require human input. > > Removing a channel, however, is easy. If we simply add a daily cron job > that tries to retrieve channel.xml from registered channels, then if a > channel.xml can't be retrieved for a week, the channel could be > automatically deleted. Legit channels with serious problems can always > be re-added. > > So, if your channel dies, you simply remove the channel.xml and it will > no longer be listed after 1 week. > > Simple, no? Fair enough for the maintenance part I'd say. We'll only be listing the names and description on those channels, right ? Not things like what packages and similar overhead things ;D - Helgi