Re: hope to finish the coding standard

Hello, Alexander Merz wrote: > Ok, what has this to do PEAR? A lot :-) > > We all are voluntaries, we are working for PEAR without get payed. As a > 'virtual community' we need rules too, we call this rules Coding Standard. You are distorting the issue. The issue is not discarding rules but adapting them to not turn off contributors that do not want to conform to style rules that are different from theirs. What you are pushing is the same as of those schools that require students to wear uniforms, as if wearing uniforms would make them better students. Likewise, fixed style rules do not make contributors code better because their code already works fine before it gets submitted to the PEAR. Most authors have already their own set of style rules, except they are not the same as PEAR. > Ok, you said we can change the standard. Yes we can really do it, but when we > do it once, we can do it again, and again. Uninteresting which standard you > have, there is at least one, who wants a other rule changed. What I proposed was not a change in the rules that is not backwards compatible. What I proposed required that the style rules be consistent with the style of the original contributor. If the original contributor already use the current PEAR style rules, what I proposed is that nobody that changes that code changes those rules. > The existing rules are 2 years old, they didn't changed, the bible is more then > 2000 years old and still unchanged. And the result? The christian church is not Silly comparision? huh. The bible is a book of stories, not a set of rules that everybody follows. If you insist on the comparision, remember that different people have different interpretations of the bible. Even the bible have different people telling the same story. That is just to say that more than one style is valid. > the biggest religion, but still one of the worlds religion. If somebody didn't > want to follow the coding standards and didn't want to join PEAR, it is OK! You > can go to another OpenSource project, PEAR is not the only PHP code library. > PEAR has special rules, since 2 years more then 20 developer can live with this > rules and produces a lot of stable and useful code. Exactly, so you can have an idea of the figures, 20 is about 10 times less the number that the PHP Classes Repository has as contribuitors. Style rules are not the only turn off issue of PEAR, but it is certainly one of the important reasons that keeps much more contributors away. If you don't accept that being flexible here is a good point, you are making PEAR into a thing of an elite, rather than a thing for the community. Regards, Manuel Lemos