Re: Regrouping PEAR

Craig Constantine wrote: >--On September 27, 2006 10:42:24 PM +0200 Lukas Kahwe Smith ><lsmith@php.net> wrote: > >> Not sure where the difference is between your "groups" and the current >> "categories"? If you mean that "groups" should essentially be full >> fledged sub repositories with their own rules and guidelines then I think >> you are taking things a bit far. I do not think that this would make >> sense underneath the php.net project. > >I'd hoped I was thinking abstractly. > >Yes, one implementation would be to extend/empower the current categories >-- and that means someone has to bootstrap all the package memberships, and >people memberships, to the "new group idea". (The "new group idea" includes >the concept of contributing people belonging to the group, not just the >packages belonging to the group.) > >I suppose my underlying idea could equally be expressed as: > >Extend the current categories concept so that all the maintainers of >packages in a category can collaborate. > >This (my original idea wording, or the let's-expand-categories wording) >would lead us to smaller-than-PEARdev, yet larger than one package, groups >of worker bees. I don't think it's a good idea. It will isolate people in their category and if a category is more popular than another, the category community will be a lot larger than the other ones. Bees like to poke around. -- Bertrand Mansion Mamasam Tel : +33 1 48 89 88 26 http://www.mamasam.com Creative Internet Solutions