Re: Re: If / where to send trackback notifications

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