Re: future of PEAR

On Monday, Nov 10, 2003, at 12:09 US/Central, Lukas Smith wrote:

The problem is not that we lack technical competence. The problem is that PEAR focused on building technical foundations and totally ignored build up a working community process. This of course is just as hard to fix as technical mistakes.

It is in fact harder in a lot of ways. It's like building a business (or more specifically a franchise model business). It requires more patience, more planning, more attention to the not-sexy not-fun stuff like requirements determination and documentation. It's fun and easy to "get started coding!" and not so fun to "get started documenting!". That is the challenge any serious form of PEAR2 would face, and not many are up for it. _______________________________________________________________________ Paul M. Jones Savant: the simple alternative to Smarty. http://phpsavant.com/