Re: hosting packages on external VCS sites

On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 15:09:58 -0500, Gregory Beaver wrote: > Hi all, > > I am dismayed to see that a few of our packages that have external > hosting of revision control now come up as 404, and some with external > documentation come up as 404. > > What do you think? > > Greg Well I totally agree, maybe not the domain name because as someone pointed out, they can lapse. Actually this issue has been discussed before, the RCS issue that is, both here on the list (~ 1 year ago) and I posted some thoughts of my own about this on my blog but it's currently down, I'm waiting for Pierre to come back to live so he can install the system I sent him then I'll post the link to the blog post, it's a somewhat excerpt of the discussion that we had here. The bottom line is, either use cvs.php.net or a public service or be an established project like Horde, pat, etc that actually could pull off hosting their code them self. About the doc issue, I'm all about keeping it all on pearweb, docbook would be best but then someone would have to step up and make peardoc not use some utterly odd format of docbook and be more in pair with the php manual, the most important reason for this is to being able to use the nifty revision tool they have over at the phpdoc team, something you can't really get on wikis when we are dealing with multi language docs unless we maintain revision numbers by hand and make our own little scripts to travers the db to show who is out of date with the English version, how far behind, what's missing and such. Regards Helgi