Re: Re: priorities for PEAR project as a whole

Martin Jansen wrote:

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. ;-)

For those who wonder what the last five words mean, it goes something like "The one who does not ask stays stupid". Arnaud.