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

On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 17:45, Philip Olson <philip@roshambo.org> wrote: > > 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. Not linking to viewvc, but to the tagged file directly in svn would be the best way. -Hannes