Re: failure to act on PEAR_Frontend_Web by Pierre Alain Joye

Greg Beaver wrote: >Hello, > >I would like to formally request that I be added as a lead for >PEAR_Frontend_Web, and Pierre marked as an inactive lead. > >I regret to write this message. It has been 1 year and just under 2 >months since I initially wrote a message to pear-qa asking for the >ability to make a release to PEAR_Frontend_Web to make it work with PEAR >1.4.x. At the same time, I asked Alan Knowles to allow changes to >PEAR_Frontend_Gtk, which he committed, and then fixed up and released as >PEAR_Frontend_Gtk version 0.4.0 on March 14, 2005 - 11 months ago. > >Since that time, Pierre-Alain Joye has insisted that there are some >"other problems" with the implementation, without ever providing >examples, opening bug reports, or doing any work on the code. Instead, >he has repeatedly promised that he would work on it "this weekend" and >then failed to do any work at all. I have also requested to have the >right to do a release of this essential core package from Pierre, but >have been denied that permission for no reason. As an active maintainer >of PEAR, I submit that I am well versed in the features and issues of >the Web frontend. I also have the capability to test this frontend on >linux, OS X, Windows XP Professional with IIS or Apache, and Windows XP >Home with Apache. This reminds me a situation we had a few years ago with ITX and Sigma :) I hope this time it will end up in a better way. By the way, is OOH_Form not too cold in Siberia ? ;) Good luck, -- Bertrand Mansion http://www.mamasam.com - creative internet solutions http://golgote.freeflux.net - blog