RE: [PEAR-DEV] PEAR Group: Package Proposal Handling Rules

> From: Stephan Schmidt [mailto:s.schmidt@metrix.de] > Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 3:56 PM > It's nice to see some progress on the package proposal fron, but I think > some of the requirements seem too be be a lot of paperwork. If I have to thats why hopefully soon we will have the pearweb take care of most of the stuff. > propose a package and then call for a vote, this may cause some problems, > as > people alwys vote, when a package is proposed. Do these votes count or do > I > have to wait some time, then officially call a vote and hope the the > people > who liked the package are available during the week of voting time? I > think > voting should be allowed from the beginning of the proposal. > > Furthemore I think including links to all votes in the archive isn't > necessary, a list of names should be sufficient. Either you trust the > developers or you don't. If you find someone's cheating on PEAR, then > remove > his account. > > And I don't like it, that the PEAR group has to approve every single > package, this can lead to a lot of work for you guys. This all ties in together. I don't envision us to spend hours pondering approving a package. This is just a way to make sure that things go smoothly and especially that newcomers do things right. If a newcomer misunderstands the process and uploads a package that isn't accepted we have a mess. Furthermore in those cases where we think or have seen (by -1 votes) that there is reason for doubt it would be nice to quickly get to those votes and the reasons that where stated there. Finally we don't see a reason to rush acceptance of packages. We hope that every proposal gets peer review and a good name. Also we are trying to get rid of issues where someones +1 becomes obsolete because of a request by someone else. So the idea is to have things worked out as much as possible before the actual voting takes place. > As I saw things like these comming, I changed the my personal proposal > process starting with my current package XML_RDDL. Do you think this is > sufficient to be accepted: > > http://www.php-tools.de/PEAR/XML_RDDL/ > > Voting started last Friday, so tomorrow people had one week of voting > time. > Do I have to send the information to the PEAR group in a separate mail, or > is it OK, if you take a look at the information I already provided? > If yes, then please have a look at it and tell me if you approve or not. I am not yet sure of we have the approval flag added. And I would say that this proposal process applies to all proposals currently underway. Of course this is "paperwork" but remember the aims of PEAR. We will try to reduce the amount of paperwork, but unfortunately some regulations are needed to make this entire process manageable and qa'able. Regards, Lukas