Re: PFC-RFC

On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, George Schlossnagle wrote: > I'd be concerned about a prevalence of me-too-ism. I.e. how can I say > no to Stig even if his code sucks (I like Stigs code, but he's a > prominent figure easy to pick on). peer-reviewing is in my oponion not about "your code sucks", everyone can do that, but more about "hey, why did you do that this way and not that way". It's more about improving the code and not about deciding, if it's good enough. I know, this is quite an ideal-world assumption, but maybe worth the effort... > I personally dig a community rating system. If 500 people think that > package foo is the greatest thing since sliced cheese, then I don't > really care that it is a PFC, it probably merits consideration. My proposal doesn't prevent that You still can download whatever class is in PEAR, a PFC does not force you to use that. I just don't want to end up in CPAN-land, where I have no idea, which class is the "best" one. chregu