I dunno, maybe I'm conservative but to me "backup" means "backup". The person who committed this 2-year old backup show knew that it was a backup show. This means, inherently, that it will not get played except in an emergency. And I think that's OK.
For that to really work, though, I guess the episodes need to be guaranteed timeless. Maybe we should work on collecting backup show submissions that basically are timeless. I can think of about 58 unix commands that could be discussed; they've been good for the past 40 years so I guess we could tempt fate and assume they will continue to be valid for another 40. I've kind of talked myself into a backup show sprint, where Timelessness is the key goal. Then we could stash these timeless shows into our backup show bin, and forget about them. Does that sound like an idea? - klaatu On 03/03/2014 12:43 PM, someone ishere wrote: > There should be a queue. Anything over 3 months is a bit crazy though. The > content could be out of date when it's released. I'm not sure about a limit > to > how many shows to keep, but anything more than 3 months old should be > released.... say on a weekend. HPR 7 days a week would be bloody awesome. > > --cobra2 > http://cctracker.org > >> I think a back up que is nice, but I think anything over a year is >> excessive. Even the most historical show would be, IMHO, stale. I >> don't know if it's hard to do, but expanding how far out the calendar >> goes is an option, but I don't understand how it all works. This "also >> scheduled" thing at the end is interesting. You could just put backup >> shows a year out after they are submitted, I guess. Is any "floating" >> possible for shows?! >> >> Just thoughts... >> --- >> Deepgeek >> >> On Sun, 02 Mar 2014 23:03:29 +0000 >> >> Dave Morriss <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > Yesterday, while recording the February Community News with Ken and > Ahuka, the subject of the backup shows and how to manage them came up. > > There are currently 12 backup shows in the queue, the oldest having > been there for over 2 years. On the one hand it seems reasonable to > maintain such a queue as an ultimate fall-back, but on the other > hand, keeping shows for as long as this seems like a bad idea. > > So, some feedback from the HPR Community would be helpful. As far as I > can see the main questions are: > > - Should there be a maximum time for backup shows to be queued? > - Should we limit the number that are held at any time (by > releasing the older ones)? > - Is there still a need for a backup queue at all? > > Your thoughts would be appreciated. > > Dave > >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Hpr mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://hackerpublicradio.org/mailman/listinfo/hpr_hackerpublicradio.org >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Hpr mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://hackerpublicradio.org/mailman/listinfo/hpr_hackerpublicradio.org > > _______________________________________________ > Hpr mailing list > [email protected] > http://hackerpublicradio.org/mailman/listinfo/hpr_hackerpublicradio.org > > _______________________________________________ Hpr mailing list [email protected] http://hackerpublicradio.org/mailman/listinfo/hpr_hackerpublicradio.org
