PHP-GTK Community : a community site for PHP-GTK

Some might wonder about the "available only to registered users on php-gtk.eu" choice. Two reasons for that:

• it will (mostly) keep crawlers off-limits, since these will not be able to log in and will receive "access denied" errors instead, thus preserving a relative anonymity to IRC users, with their chat transcripts not being available on the web, except to fellow (registered) PHP-GTK regulars. Conversely, general viewability of the logs seems to be a privacy problem, since any crawler will be able to access them
• why allow only users registered on this specific site, not on other sites ? Actually, this might be doable, but it would need cooperation with the webmasters on other sites to share authentication, and in all cases slow down log access and increase system load. And since most gtk.php.net users, past and present, are already registered on this site, this does not significantly change the population allowed to access the logs

Another question would be : "why not purge the logs after a reasonable delay ?" primarily because one never knows when questions can find an answer in the logs. But if you have an idea and reasoning about what would be a reasonable delay, please submit a comment below.

Additional notes:

• whatever the final choice, log publication will actually begin AFTER it has been announced on site, and all earlier logs erased, to avoid any worries about retroaction.
• in the final decision, the votes of registered members will carry a heavier weight than anonymous votes, because these are more likely to belong to actual community members. So, if you want to make your vote really count: log in before voting !

I really disapprove of public irc logs php-gtk is not really a subject alot of people are interested in if they want to view the log that much they will register. some view from irc :-

<user1> i am unhappy to say the least about the current php-gtk poll
<user1> er, the results of.
<user2> which poll?
<user2> php-gtk.eu?
<user1> yes the one about the irc logs
<user1> i voted for "only for registered users"
<user2> i voted for drop 'em all
<user2> don't wanna have my logs published anywhere without my knowledge/permission
<user2> matter of principle
<user1> even if my choice was not the winner
<user1> i would rather your choice win then
<user1> instead of public

I know I just posted a public irc log but its a very small quote and names have been changed for users privacy.

here is a quote from an iec chat in irc://chat.freenode.net/#freenode

<user1> If you're going to publish logs then the channel members need to be aware of it ahead of time.
<user2> well we are holding a poll on are site but the results so far are pushing towards public instead of registered users to our site.
<user1> The policy is that if you are going to publish logs then you must acquire consent.
<user1> Saying "Logs are published at ...." in the topic is enough.
<user1> But not retroactively.