Re: PEAR::Date

Hello, Alan and me are interested to work as maintainer. I got the OK from Monte, see the following mail: hth pierre Begin forwarded message: Date: 21 May 2003 13:13:18 -0500 From: Monte Ohrt <monte@ispi.net> To: Pierre-Alain Joye <paj@pearfr.org> Subject: Re: Date_Calc No problem, go ahead and add yourself as a maintainer, and have fun ;-) Monte On Wed, 2003-05-21 at 12:07, Pierre-Alain Joye wrote: > On 21 May 2003 11:40:49 -0500 > Monte Ohrt <monte@ispi.net> wrote: > > > Someone mentioned you were trying to get ahold of me regarding > > Date_Calc in the PEAR repository? > > Yes, and I'm happy to hear you :). > > Lukas and some others people tried to get in touch with you from some > weeks now about some pending bugs and feature requests. > > I worked already on Date by fixing weekofyear and some others little > thing and I'm working on a new php_date extension (which should be in > php5, http://www.pearfr.org/php_date). > > Actually, they argue a vote to assign new maintainers for Date. I do > not like that much and that's why I'm here, as you did a real good > work and you are free to do not read or work on it for a period. > > A possible solution is to add me as a maintainer (lead if you'll allow > me to release new versions). > > After having looked to the "bugs"/features requests, my plan is: > - Fix the eventual bugs asap and release a new version (minor version > increment), keeping BC safe. > - Add the minor/major automatic update to the PEAR installer, then > make the necessary changes to add DST and such locale thingies > - Start the 2.0 releases process, people can still use the 1.x > releases > as usual, and we can still fix bugs in this branch (it works quit > well and fits 99% of the date needs). > - Once php_date is released, create a wrapper to allow Date users to > use > it with php_date > > Alan Knowles should help too. > > What do you think? All these things should be done with your > agreement. > > As far as we got a solution, I'll post the resume on peardev and cool > down the revolution ;-). > > Best regards, > > pierre -- Monte Ohrt <monte@ispi.net> > Hi, > > I know we have had this before but we seriously need a new addtionak > maintainer for PEAR::Date. > > Therefore I propose: > 1) vote on if we will infact add a new additional maintainer > 2) if yes people can step up to take the position and we will then > quickly vote on who will become the new maintainer. > > Since we don't have a formal voting system in place I suggest we just > start the voting and hopefully things are obvious enough that we don't > need a lengthy debate as to how many votes of what type are > required... > > Anyways +1 from me to having a new additional maintainer for > PEAR::Date. > > Regards, > Lukas Smith > smith@backendmedia.com > _______________________________ > BackendMedia > www.backendmedia.com > berlin@backendmedia.com > > Linn Zwoch Smith GbR > Pariser Str. 44 > D-10707 Berlin > > Tel +49 30 83 22 50 00 > Fax +49 30 83 22 50 07 > > > > -- > PEAR Development Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >