Re: [pear-webmaster] Trackback interface

On Mon Nov 08, 2004 at 12:0750PM -0500, Tobias Schlitt wrote: > On 11/08/2004 09:28 AM you wrote: > >On Sun Nov 07, 2004 at 04:2834PM -0500, Tobias Schlitt wrote: > > > >>I recently had the idea to provide our package info pages with a > >>blog-like trackback interface (with moderation through the maintainers), > > >That sounds interesting. Do you envision to display the trackbacks > >publicly on the website, or should we just provide an interface for the > >maintainers? (Thinking of trackback spam ...) > > I imagine to show them on the website. We have invested quite a bit of work in streamlining the package homepages. "Cluttering" them with lots of links to other sites may defeat this. I suggest we exclusively publish the trackback information to the maintainers only. > On a trackback, the lead > maintainers get emailed and can approve the trackback (to avoid spam). I'm not sure if this is the right workflow: a) People get email without requesting it. b) People will need to manually approve trackbacks, which most of them will consider to be useless. -- - Martin Martin Jansen http://martinjansen.com/