Re: Package proposal misuse?

On August 12, 2003 03:03 pm, Davey wrote: > I *so* strongly disagree in this case. I think that whilst the pear-devs > should be the ones who say if a package is fit for PEAR, only the > community knows what it wants *IN* PEAR. So perhaps we need to approach > this from 2 stand points: I've said it before and I'll say it again. PEAR is not YASA (Yet Another Script Archive). It is a repository of libraries that are useful to majority(!!) of PHP users and are stable/functional/secure enough to be associated with PHP as a project. It is my opinion that given the number of people who fall into the $DEVELOPERS category, there is more then enough opinions & points of view to determine the merits of package exclusion or inclusion. Inviting anyone from the street to make such decisions is a bad idea. You would have no reflection on the person level of competence, which you could determine about a $DEVELOPER by looking at their code and prior communication(s) to the list. You also have no guarantee that people voting are in fact distinct users, a person with multiple e-mail addresses, ips could easily trick the system. A compromise of sorts would be to allow anyone to comment on the package. Which may bring up previously unconsidered benefits and downsides of a particular package. However, the final vote of the merits of the package should be up to $DEVELOPERS and $GROUP (PEAR Group). Personally, I'd be much happier if package acceptance decisions were $GROUP only, but that's probably impractical. Ilia