Expect more!

Hi, I am getting a bit worried about the current way pear development is handled. Its very hard to follow what packages are being proposed, accepted and for what reasons. But that is not the biggest problem IMHO. The biggest problem is that we have been lowering our expectations. A lot of developers are adding packages like mad. And I think the biggest problem are actually long standing developers. Most of their packages are accepted with minimal fuss. Because we *know* their code is good. While that may be the case we should still try to enforce the rule that packages that do the same should at least have a different concept to how they achieve that. And if that is not the case people should merge with existing packages. I think it is vital that we don't let ourselves we overwhelmed by so many packages. We have to remember that if the maintainer disappears and none of the other developers takes over we will get all sorts of bad publicity for PEAR. Also it just takes more work in the long run and confuses the userbase. Regards, Lukas Smith smith@backendmedia.com _______________________________ BackendMedia www.backendmedia.com berlin@backendmedia.com Linn Zwoch Smith GbR Reuchlinstr. 10-11 Raum 4.1.6 D-10553 Berlin (Tiergarten) Tel +49 30 83 22 50 00 Fax +49 30 83 22 50 07