Re: Re: priorities for PEAR project as a whole

On Fri Sep 29, 2006 at 02:5902AM -0400, Alan Langford wrote: > * Something that lists what people are working on or want to work on, no > matter how informal. PEPr has the "Draft" category, which to some extent gives a pretty good overview about what is currently in the pipe. And it helps a lot to ask on pear-dev, I guess. Most PEAR developers are subscribed here. > Maybe some process where an idea can incubate from > idea to concept, to development team, and finally to released packages. Usually there is no development team; instead single developers write code outside of PEAR and come to us when they are finished or have something to show. > * Some way of allocating effort for large scope projects. I'd love to > help transition a package from PHP4 to "native" PHP5 (which in my book > means far more than just E_STRICT), but I don't want to spend weeks on > something just to discover that there are three others doing the same > job -- I'd rather work closely with those folks to make the job easier > and quicker. Why don't you ask the authors of the package if they are working on a transition? If they don't know of any process with regard to this, it's most likely safe to do the work without interfering with someone else. To sum it up: Of course we can provide any sort of tools on the website. But sometimes talking to people helps a lot in the first place. The theme music of the German version of Sesame Street goes like "Der, die, das - wer, wie, was - wieso, weshalb, warum - wer nicht fragt, bleibt dumm." (The last 5 words are most important.) It is astonishing how well this nursery rhyme applies for adults, too. ;-) - Martin