[Pkg-zsh-devel] How to proceed with zsh's watch file?

[Axel Beckert]

Hi Bart,

Bart Martens wrote:
> > I strongly disagree to drop the zsh.org URL from the watch file and
> > I'm also a little bit surprised that Bart favours the SourceForge
> > mirror over upstream's FTP server and drops that one completely.
> 
> The homepage http://www.zsh.org/ suggests sourceforge for "global".
> If the ftp server was down at that time, then writing a new watch
> file based on sourceforge was the obvious choice.

Oh, right, I remember that there was zsh.org downtime for a day or two
recently. I though thought it was in December, not November, though.

> The message on the PTS automatically disappears when newer uploads
> contain watch files producing valid results.

Hrm, I think I saw watchfiles which looked just like improvements, but
not fixing errors. So I already wondered how long that message will
stay. So I guess they had temporary issues, too. Thanks for the
information!

And yes, I'm happy about your new service. I was just surprised that
zsh was hit by it. So I guess it was that recent (or another)
temporary zsh.org downtime which triggered you coming into action.

> Package maintainers are welcome to contact me about the separate
> watch files I wrote for their packages.

That's why I Cc'ed you. :-)

		Regards, Axel
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