Re: Rules reminder (was IT)

On Sun, 23 Feb 2003, Pierre-Alain Joye wrote: > 1. from when a patch, and indeed a new version, are accepted using the > voting system ? > 2. This is the end of the package maintainers system > 3. beginning of chaos Pierre has a point in here. I also failed to understand this side of the story and was only thinking about the technical side of things such as bumbing up the major revision number. But if in deed such a big changes can be just voted in without listening to the maintainers opinion what the point of having a maintainer? This reminds me about an old mail by Stig quoted below: "Right now, there is a tendency of people "interfering" a bit too much in the work of others. Everyone is entitled to an opinion, but please respect the fact that each package is a separate project, with its own developers, lead etc. The most important role of pear-dev is during the establishment of the package (finding a good name) and for discussion. As long as a package complies to the basic rules, its lead is not obligated to do what people on this list tell him. Neither is he obligated to collect opinions here before implementing something." Read more at: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=pear-dev&m=103748895124605&w=2 -- Mika Tuupola http://www.appelsiini.net/~tuupola/