Excerpts from Benjamin R. Haskell's message of Fri Nov 25 19:40:52 +0100 2011: > Does the scripts site have much reason to continue? Yes: Vim is charity ware. People happen to click on banners. That's putting some children in school. Money from advertising is not too much - but enough to do some good. If we used github only ...
I'd like to do the opposite: gather VimL projects from github and display summaries on www.vim.org. The first step is to keep a separate site and see how it evolves. If it works - then discussion about integrating it into www.vim.org can start. Much too early for now. If you're interested tell me and I'll set you a link to our "vision". Duplicating github ? Insane amount of work. No chance. But we should think about reusing some of their ideas such as display README or displaying doc/*.txt files from plugins. Then authors don't have to duplicate install instructions. > I guess one clear benefit is that the scripts site is a nice way to have > a "stable" release, vs. a "development" release on github. So, maybe > for that reason alone it makes sense to continue to devote effort to > maintaining/improving the site. Its debatable which branch should serve which purpose. My plugins should have a stable trunk - if they are not its a bug and should be fixed instantly. Experimental ideas are put into branches. But some people feel differently about it. > Yes. With these new data post-2011/09/02 it seems clear the problem > wasn't simply the downvote link being crawled. (How do you have access > to that data?) I asked Bram once - cause I wanted to improve the website. I granted me access. I even rewrote much of the code finally noticing that PHP is not going to serve me looking at the ideas I sketched above. I also spend more time on mercurial than on coding cause I'm a git user and I'm missing trivial things like remote locations and such. I always feel unsafe using it. Maybe its also because I don't know it very well. Bram statement was simple: sourceforge's hosting is going to serve it well in the future. Using a custom solution may not. He's right on it. So unless I can't guarantee funding for at least 10 years or so .. I should shut up and make more money so that I can do so. > Do you have a way to correlate the voting data with access logs that > contain the User-Agent? It'd be interesting to see if it lined up. No. I tried. Those older logs are all gone. It would be very interesting to read the HTTP_REFERER code. Marc Weber -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
