Re: If / where to send trackback notifications (was: "Re: Services_TrackBack?")

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 04:51:31 -0500 tobias@schlitt.info (Tobias Schlitt) wrote: > OK, if you don't see that approving/deleting trackbacks belongs to > a webmasters action, I propose to send the trackback mails to > pear-qa. The > reason for that is, that the goal of my trackback implementation > is to > raise the ammount of documentation for packages, which raises the > quality of our packages. Couple of lines in a blog entry are not really documentations... I'm pretty sure most of them will be from blogs only. > Sorry, Pierre, but I do not see, that approving trackbacks is just > a matter of the maintainer. What if he's on holiday? What if he > simply ignores the trackback mails? What if a package is orphan, > what was not recognized until now? Orphaned packages is special case which requires special actions for any single process in pear (RFC on its way today). > We will lose a pretty low > hanging fruit of docs for our packages. Having those notifications > on a publically available mailinglist ensures, that trackbacks are > well maintained and approved/deleted ASAP after their arrival. Maintainers are responsible for all the informations related to their packages and available through pearweb. I do not see a single reason to change this fact for the trackbacks. --Pierre