Re: commiting bug fixes to other peoples packages (was RE: [PEAR-DEV] #25060 [NEW]: Math_Integer/Integer/gmp.php use

Hi! Derick Rethans wrote:

I do not want to raise too much flames, so will just give a 'classic' example: http://pear.php.net/package-info.php?package=PHPDoc

Hey, you hurt me now ;)

Well, unfortunately I had to find a victim. You seemed to have a strong enough will to live through this. ;)

The thing had known bugs for ages, there were fixes for them that never got applied and yet it was not deprecated in favor of the working solution until recently. Unfortunately the original developer lost interest in his packages, and no one was capable enough to properly support his code.

Heh, I tried fixing it, but it was just too messy :)

That is *another* way to express the same idea (I tried looking at PHPDoc code, too). ;) I sincerely doubt that you would object if someone appeared and commited some fixes to 'your' package back then...