Re: Abandoned packages - was Re: [PEAR-DEV] Re: [PEAR-QA] Removing lead maintainers

I totally agree. I really want to contribute to PEAR and don't have any package. it's horrible wait so long to have a feedback in a bug report and longer to get if fixed. I can help to list those abandoned classes. At 16:59 27/2/2004 -0800, Jesus M. Castagnetto wrote:

--- David Costa <gurugeek@php.net> wrote: On Feb 26, 2004, at 4:04 PM, Klaus Guenther wrote: snip

There are, of course, situations in which this may be seen as especially negative. For example, if QA would "adopt" a package because the maintainer went missing, and the maintainer did not give permission to do anything. In that case, it would cause (at least) irritation, and we don't need it.

Hello, just a question, would it be helpful to have a list of "abandoned" or not so active packages by matching the number of opened/uncommented bugs ? I could try to help out if necessary. Indeed, such an idea has been tossed back and forth at different times. Jokingly at some point we talked about a "Siberia" for abandoned packages, or a way for labelling as such so the users will know and make a more informed decision. I'll definitely like to see that. Such a list will also be helpful for people who are eager to contribute to PEAR but might not have a particular app/package on hand. Adopting/resurrecting an abandoned one will be "a good thing" (TM). Cheers. ===== -- Jesus M. Castagnetto (jcastagnetto@yahoo.com) Research: http://metallo.scripps.edu/ Personal: http://www.castagnetto.org/ PEAR stuff: http://pear.php.net/user/jmcastagnetto __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Get better spam protection with Yahoo! Mail. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools -- PEAR Development Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php