Re: Idea for pearweb

On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Michael Bretterklieber wrote: > Maybe we can add a second way for providing support. The user must buy > something from the wishlist of the developer for getting this type of > support, but then he has guaranteed support within 24 hours or something > like that. I think this discussion is going into wrong direction. IMO if someone is contributing to PEAR only for 1) fame, 2) getting free stuff from other people, that someone is contributing for all wrong reasons. Personally I contribute only becaue of the satisfaction I get when I feel I might helped out someone. So please. Keep the money and support "contracts" out of PEAR. If someone wants to provide commercial support for his package thats his job. PEAR should not be used for endorsing any commercial-like activity. Everyone who have not allready done so should read the developers guide in PEAR manual: http://pear.php.net/manual/en/developers.contributing.php "4) The contributor ("you") is willing to provide support for his package(s) and is willing to release future (bug-fixing) versions. If you are not willing to maintain your code, it probably makes no sense to contribute it. Maintaining means in PEAR's case that you provide support via the various mailing lists, and that you are willing to roll further releases of your code, that contain bugfixes and enhancements. " So if youre not willing to provide support and bugfixes for free you package should not be in PEAR. -- Mika Tuupola http://www.appelsiini.net/~tuupola/