RE: [PEAR-DEV] future of PEAR

> From: George Schlossnagle [mailto:george@omniti.com] > Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 9:44 PM > Not only is documenting not particularly fun, convincing people to jump > through your hoops is a major challenge. It's very easy for anything > like that to deteriorate into a petty, non-functioning bureaucracy, > Wading through many of the 'call for votes' threads on PEAR is like > spending the day at the MVA (motor vehicles administration for those > not from the US - one our most glorious bureaucracies). > > Automated verification takes care of much of this. If a package can be > automatically verified, the rules used to do so seem much less > capricious and the whole system is less prone to nepotism. Agreed .. beaucracy is not fun either. To me it's the lesser evil often. Also contrary to popular believe regulations to not prevent the application of common sense .. but this only works with a proper community process or things deteriorade .. Anyways yes we should aim at making as much of the issues measureable. But anyways I think I am doing useless rambling, because I don't feel that its really possible to restructure a large project as PEAR has already become so late in the game. Especially since PEAR is not utter crap :-) I just feel that its slightly broken and the crack will widen over time. Regards, Lukas