Re: Request to link PuPHPet from php.net's download page sidebar

If we accept phansible and puphpet, which I personally use and think are awesome, then this paves the way for more projects to come asking for a link. How do we accept/reject these requests? Is it something we want to deal with ? I'm happy to ride the wave whatever direction we take but I do see issues with putting in community links there. On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 9:10 AM, Peter Cowburn <petercowburn@gmail.com> wrote: > On 15 July 2014 08:55, Ferenc Kovacs <tyra3l@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 7:50 PM, Adam Harvey <aharvey@php.net> wrote: > > > >> On 14 July 2014 10:46, Peter Cowburn <petercowburn@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > > >> > On 14 July 2014 18:12, Juan Treminio <jtreminio@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > > >> > > Hi all, > >> > > > >> > > I am the owner/maintainer of the FOSS project PuPHPet, which allows > >> > > developers to quickly (and hopefully, easily) create > highly-customized > >> > > virtual machines using Vagrant and Puppet. Right now the project > leans > >> > > heavily in favor of PHP-specific builds, but in the near future I > >> wish to > >> > > add other languages as well, while keeping PHP as the main focus. > >> > > > >> > > The URL is https://puphpet.com > >> > > Github is https://github.com/puphpet/puphpet > >> > > >> > > >> > +1 on adding PuPHPet to the sidebar on > >> > http://php.net/downloads.php > >> > > >> > While we’re there, let’s add dotdeb.org and Ondřej’s repos to the > list. > >> > > >> > Objections? > >> > >> http://deanhunt.com/wp-content/uploads/do-it.png > >> > >> Adam > >> > >> -- > >> PHP Webmaster List Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >> > >> > > Hi, > > > > I've already mentioned this on irc (I wasn't aware that there is a thread > > about it), but I don't think that it is a good idea to add this to the > list. > > Adding this would be a precedence for adding > > http://phansible.com/ and > > every other project which has anything to do with virtualization and php. > > That block was originally added to link to MacOSX binaries where it > > wasn't available by default nor common for the users to build php for > > themself: > > > > > > http://git.php.net/?p=web/php.git;a=commit;h=e2c704cf3885819fb8f06fc5c8814c2e52c4c234 > > Little by little, we ended up in a situation, where we even list > > alternative repos for linux distros where php is already available from > the > > distributor, and multiple amp stack for the same platform. > > Given how much do we suck keeping that list up-to-date, and people are > > willing to fight tooth and nail to get listed there, if anything I would > > like to see that block to be removed. > > What do you think? > > > > If we're going to refuse adding projects like PuPHPet and friends, then I'd > say that those sidebar links have outlived their usefulness. I certainly > don't want it to look like we're giving preferential treatment to the > [wxm]ampp? family, to the exclusion of more fashionable ways of setting up > a PHP dev env today. > > > > > > -- > > Ferenc Kovács > > @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu > > >