Re: Simple system for channel maintenance

+1. I guess it makes to have the whole pear group and qa-core team plus volunteers to have access to the channel maintenance. The trackback mechanism send a mail showing who did what works well so we could use the same idea ("Channel was approved by xxx"). Arnaud. 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? > > Greg >