check if contribution is possible

From: Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 16:59:56 +0000
Subject: check if contribution is possible
Groups: php.pear.dev 
Request: Send a blank email to pear-dev+get-14303@lists.php.net to get a copy of this message
Hello everybody, For about three years we have been developing an application server using php, Smarty and PostgreSQL. Now we want to add an integrated web mail. We had talks with the Squirrelmail team one year ago and again just recently about templating Squirrelmail so that it can be integrated, but we did not reach an agreement on speed and quality of the abstraction. At the end we decided to write the mail support ourselves (which is not a problem - we just wanted to contribute to the community 3 to 9 development months, as we do with www.pgaccess.org for example. But then I suddenly found out that PEAR has an mail module. So we decided to check if we can partner with you. Our goal is - powerful and completely based on templates web mail. Basically our application server has four layers - db, core, business logic and templates - so the mailing module will follow it. At the end - we are about to release the code of our application server, and the mail module - the last will be able to work separately also, in addition to its ability to integrate with other services (address databases, mailing list services, customer e-mail support services and so on) - that are part of our application server. To make the long story short - do you think PEAR is a suitable place for such a cooperation. We are dedicated to high quality code and we accept the PEAR requirements. We are sometimes too serious about what we do. Do you think that we should partner the mail module or do you think we should start new module - web mail. Or new module - application server. Or is PEAR rather for more basic level components? Thank you for your attention and best regards, Iavor

« previous php.pear.dev (#14303) next »