RE: [PEAR-DEV] future of PEAR (was [PEAR-DEV] [Call For Votes] PHP::Fork)

On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 21:43, Lukas Smith wrote: > Of course this could be done in the current PEAR. > However this is more difficult and also a bit problematic. > Even though this is Opensource there is an implicit contract between all > parties. Changing the rules too much feels problematic too me. While > creating a new "version" of PEAR seems like a totally valid thing to do. > Anyways I am also not sure if you can define a community process properly > this late in the game. That's what afaik is done during project start up. Other advantages would be to wake up all those inactive/lazy/... maintainers to move on their project or even search for a new maintainer and to clear up things between PEAR and PECL.