Re: AW: [PEAR-DEV] voting

On Wednesday, April 2, 2003, at 09:36 AM, Daniel Khan wrote:

How does CPAN do the package approval?

In CPAN you upload a package to the server. It then goes through an auto-test process (CPAN requires unit tests and certain coding standards). Once the package has been tested and confirmed, someone manually registers it. Those people come from a pool of volunteers. That is for package upload. For namespace registration there is an additional approval that must come from the volunteer pool on the appropriateness/lack-of-redundancy of that namespace name. This is the same volunteer pool as above, though I believe (though I'm uncertain) that certain people attend to certain top-level namespaces. CPAN often gets maligned as a trash pit, but it has gotten much better. There is much less redundancy in new packages and the auto-tests are actually pretty thorough. George