Re: Solution: secondary maintainer

On Thu Aug 14, 2003 at 05:2812PM +0200, Derick Rethans wrote: > Saying that people should reply within a week is totally unreasonable. > It's not like people get paid for this. All those stupid rules make it > less an open source project, and more a commercial entity. Of course > there should be something done when a maintainer/developer doesn't > respond for-a-long-time. But one week... come on. I tend to agree to that. Whilst it is great that all of you are interested to "normalize" PEAR, we should at the same time take care that we do not end up with a bunch of complicated rules, making it extremely hard for new contributors. To be concrete: Having a secondary maintainer is great, but we shouldn't settle with rules like "If someone does not respond within two weeks, someone else will do what he likes with his code." I instead suggest to let the PEAR Group decide as the case arises what to do, if there is no secondary maintainer and if the primary maintainer does not respond to mails for a long period of time. ("Long" is not bound to any concrete value.) -- - Martin Martin Jansen http://martinjansen.com/