Re: svn: /web/php/trunk/ archive/archive.xml archive/entries/2011-11-11-1.xml releases/NEWS_5_4_0_RC1.txt

On Nov 11, 2011, at 2:29 AM, Peter Cowburn wrote: > On 11 November 2011 10:17, Hannes Magnusson <hannes.magnusson@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 01:04, Peter Cowburn <salathe@php.net> wrote: >>> salathe Fri, 11 Nov 2011 00:04:58 +0000 >>> >>> Revision: >>> http://svn.php.net/viewvc?view=revision&revision=319021 >>> >>> Log: >>> 5.4.0 RC1 news >>> >>> Changed paths: >>> U web/php/trunk/archive/archive.xml >>> A web/php/trunk/archive/entries/2011-11-11-1.xml >>> A web/php/trunk/releases/NEWS_5_4_0_RC1.txt >> >> >> These text files are very bad idea. >> We need to keep them forever and ever, or setup an redirect when they >> are removed. >> >> Would be better to simply link to the file on svn or something imo. >> Well, or the docs ofcourse :) > > Yes, I just figured there was a reason why the other releases has this > file and followed suit. Linking to SVN would make sense, maybe there > was some concern about traffic hitting it (I'm guessing). > > Does anyone know why the NEWS file was added with the 5.4.0 alpha1 > news entry (the first in this trend of uploading the news file)? An alpha1 viewvc link was posted that killed svn.php.net, so adding that text file was a measure to help combat that. I think there are several ways to link viewvc with one being particularly resource intensive, so it all should be fine if we link it properly. I forget the finer details. Regards, Philip