Re: public SCM

On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 11:33:57 -0700, Justin Patrin wrote: > On 9/20/06, Lukas Kahwe Smith <lsmith@php.net> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> A user just came into #pear who wanted to submit a fix for Mail_IMAPv2. >> However the package has no public SCM, so the user will not venture >> elsewhere for his IMAP needs. Did we ever start to mandate a public SCM? >> If not maybe someone is motivated to write a PEPr RFC for this. >> > > A public SCM is a rule. Either this package got in before this was > checked or it was missed by someone.... It was never made into a rule, it's one of those "unwritten" known how that most pear devs have now ... some time way back I did some blog posts and ML posts about this topic (about having it also applied backwards i.e. older packages, I think) - Helgi