Hallo, Hans! Hello, everybody!
Hans, I like your ideas, but I have some problems to imagine how this should work in praxis.
According to Hans Ecke:
- announce such an archive in the Homepage
- make a directory, where new items go inside.
They will stay there some time (2 weeks?) if after that time, nobody has protested against them, they would be moved to the archive.
Normally, nobody will take the time and download a file just for checking whether it is worth to be in such an archive. If it is the default to move it to the archive, I expect it to overflow relatively soon. I think that such an archive cannot work reasonably for a longer time without continuous human interaction. A "moderator" who feels responsible for it would be needed here. (Interested?;-)
This could be done rather easily.
How? Are you thinking of some auxiliary program invoked by a `cron' script?
To stay in time, the files can be put in meantime to the archive via symbolic links.
You mean that there should be a readable `incoming' directory for the archive where files stay for some "evaluation time"; after that they can become members of the archive, and in the meantime they are symlinked into the archive?
Schoene Gruesse,
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