Re: Idea for pearweb

On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 01:15:02PM +0200, Mika Tuupola wrote: > 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. Amen ;-) Can we no please stop this discussion. The emailaddress of the maintainer can be found in the package or on the pear website. When that doesn't help there are always the good PHP mailinglists. -- With best regards, Dave Mertens - Senior Development Manager dmertens@ism.nl Innovative Solutions in Media Schiekade 101 3033 BG Rotterdam, Netherlands T +31-10-2436060 F +31-10-2436066 http://www.ism.nl Quality Solutions - Reliable Partner