Re: [pear-webmaster] Re: [PEAR-QA] Re: If / where to send trackback notifications

On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 11:56, Aaron Wormus wrote: > Pierre-Alain Joye 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. > > > > > Documentation is documentation, and trackbacks are trackbacks. > > What I would consider valid trackbacks are: > "I just finished a project based on Quickform..." > "I figured out how to integrate Quickform with..." > "I've been looking at Quickform and PatForms, and this is what I > found..." > "X-Magazine has a great article about Quickform" > > This is stuff that could hardly be considered documentation, but for > someone who is interested getting more information about how the package > works, it might just be invaluable. It's more of a quantity rather than > quality thing. > > Being a blogger I use trackbacks a LOT and appreciate it when people > send trackbacks to my blog. It may not provide a whole lot of new > information, but it does provide a "hub" for specific information. > > I see trackbacks as a convenience or courtesy feature to let the > original author know I'm talking about them, I send them whenever I blog > about a specific subject and don't care if they are actually used or > not. If I had something to say that was important, I would use a serious > form of communication. > > </rant> > > Aaron Hence this can be as a wiki module :-) - Helgi