Re: PEAR Account Request: lanceromance

On Apr 17, 2004, at 3:41 PM, Jesus M. Castagnetto wrote:

Many ideas have been tried before for the requests for PHP accounts, and still there were getting many bogus ones. Even when you explicitely give instructions and mention when an account request will *not* be considered, still bogus requests are submitted. If you think that there is a lot of bogus input, you should subscribe to the php-notes mailings (to admin the PHP Manual notes), that'll give you an idea of how high the amount of noise can get when you are allowing people to input freely. Bottomline, I am not sure that there is a silver bullet to eliminate the noise you see (which btw is so you can see more transparently what we used to see on the PEAR group list only).

I agree with Jesus, perhaps we should add something like on the new PHP Cvs request page "If an existing CVS account holder suggested you request an account, please mention their cvs id in the request." could be the same but "if a Pear account holder suggested you.." Either way is fine to me, not that annoying. There are worst things in life :D Regards David Costa