Group/Community Disconnect

Hans Lellelid wrote:

Lukas, I think you should be a stronger leader -- nay, dictator, of PEAR.

I signed up for PEAR in Mar 2003, before PEAR Group was appointed. I signed up under the idea that published coding standards, common error handling, standard naming conventions, peer review, and peer voting would be the determiner of success in PEAR. I did not sign up to submit myself to the whim and will of a Group (or Dictator), appointed for life, that does not publish its internal communications. PEAR Group needs to open its hands, not clench its fists. Open the policies just a bit; new and great things will happen. Does that mean PEAR Group will need to change its vision of what PEAR should be? Perhaps -- but maybe it *ought* to be changed. To illustrate: Of the 6 negative votes for Savant, 5 are from the Group. All of the 12 positive votes are from regular non-Group developers. What does this say about the disconnect between the Group and the community? The PEAR community is speaking; PEAR Group should listen. -- Paul M. Jones Savant: the simple alternative to Smarty for PHP. http://phpsavant.com/ DB_Table: build RDBMS tables and XHTML forms in one PHP class. http://wiki.ciaweb.net/yawiki/index.php?area=DB_Table Yawiki: a collaborative online documentation system. http://wiki.ciaweb.net/yawiki/index.php?area=Yawiki Yawp: a single-file foundation for PHP applications. http://phpyawp.com/