Re: granting temporary permission for releasing packages that need a new release

On Thursday, August 7, 2003 1:45, Greg Beaver wrote: > Hi, > It's been an unfortunate problem recently that sometimes lead developers > don't have the time to do a new release, and so a buggy release sits out > there for ages. Nobody can change the lead developer's time frame, and > I don't think that's a solution. > The solution is to set up a system where certain top-level PEAR folks > who work on the core can run PEAR_PackageFileManager against the cvs of > a package, and do a new release. Is there any interest in such a > system? It would not be hard to code a short web-based script for > pear.php.net admins that would accept a package name, a short changelog > to use as a release information, and use the existing package.xml to > create a new one and do a release. IMHO that's a good idea. We already have the package state "snapshot", so I don't see any problem on publishing them. Btw, perhaps there are too many technicals implications with this. -- Tomas V.V.Cox mailto:cox@idecnet.com