Re: New Package Procedure?

From http://pear.php.net/manual/en/newmaint.proposal.step3.php "After a week of comments you may switch to the next phase. You should only switch to the next stage, if you are sure that the PEAR community will accept your package." As we have alot of proposals sitting in the 'proposal stage', and the 7 days thing is rarely done, perhaps that should be changed to something like: "You may enter the next phase (voting), after a week and if you are sure that the PEAR community will accept your package. However, it is good practice to email the pear-dev@list.php.net mailing list announcing that you intend to call for votes in 7 days, to ensure that everyone is aware of your schedule." Regards Alan Michael Wallner wrote:

Hi Olivier Guilyardi, you wrote:

I am myself a bit confused by the proposal procedure. I've posted XML_Indexing, and as said in the manual, I called for votes one week after the initial submission. And to this day I'm not getting any vote... I'm afraid there may not be any when voting time ends, 5 days from here...

The voting period will be expanded for another week (once) if there are not enough votes. If there are still unsolved issues, one shouldn't call for votes, AFAIR there were some rumors about a proposal lock mechanism in PEPr. Regards,