Re: PEPr Automated Verification Process - firstenhancements

Hi Alan Knowles! On 06/21/05 04:10 you wrote: >>>The point of the draft stage is it to privately assemble his draft and >>>to entire in all the data. The proposal stage is there for discussions. >>>So -1 from me. > Pepr is not a Word Processer, Draft is hardly an private area that > no-one can see... If people want a private area to prepare a proposal, > then a text file on their machine is far more suitable... > The process to get to draft already assumes that they have a proposal > (eg. when applying for an account we require some idea of a package). so > the draft stage in that sense is pretty redundant.. > The concern we have is that people are flipping to proposal, then 2 > weeks later flipping to voting, giving a horrifically short period of > time for comments, (then wondering why everyone's -1'ing the > proposal)..... Rather than messing around with 'notice of impending > vote' or whatever, adding the ability to comment on a draft seems the > simplest, easiest to manage alternative.. From the workflows point of view wht you propose is to extend the proposal time. The draft stage us for giving people an opportunity to look what their proposal will look like to the community (regarding the markup stuff e.g.). Regards, Toby -- Tobias Schlitt - Zend Certified Engineer GPG Key: 0xA6529579 PEAR (PHP Extension and Application Repository) http://pear.php.net Developer, Member of the PEAR Core QA Team & PEAR Website Team Like to say "thank you"? - http://pear.php.net/wishlist.php/toby