Re: Package proposal misuse?

Lukas Smith wrote:

From: Ilia Alshanetsky [mailto:ilia@prohost.org] Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 9:36 PM

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).

Indeed this idea was kicked around before. Everybody can vote, but only developer's count. However a large number of votes from the other users should encourage more developers to consider the package.

Personally, I'd be much happier if package acceptance decisions were $GROUP only, but that's probably impractical.

The purpose of the PEAR group is more about general direction, standards development and conflict resolution. Regards, Lukas

Ding ding ding! Lukas hits the nail on the head - Davey