Re: PEAR's mission statement - let the fun begin

Hi there, Nice initiative! So, some things that I can think of : 1) API doc modifications: complete removal or complete integration, the current implementation is IMO a mess. 2) End-User doc required to release a package as stable 3) PEAR_ in front of next major package's releases 4) Strict and concrete(documented) guidelines for error handling, E_STRICT issue, PHP5 only packages. Joshua Eichorn a écrit :

Gregory Beaver wrote:

Hi everyone, I have asked Josh Eichorn, head developer of HTML_AJAX and co-head of PhpDocumentor to head up the start of an effort to clearly define PEAR's mission. At this point, we are simply at the stage of exploring ideas, a brainstorming session. Once all of the ideas are in a simple list, then a small task force will organize them, and attempt to prioritize them based on what you want, and what is possible with the current setup. Once we have a smaller list, it will be presented for discussion to all of you once again, hopefully resulting in a clear mission within the month. At this point I'll turn it over to Josh, and he will coordinate how we will gather your ideas. Thanks, Greg

I'll be grabbing the various items i've heard so far, but it would help a lot if people could reply to this message and post anything you'd like to see PEAR do or do better. These items can be anywhere from "make pear a leader in the PHP development community" to "make it quicker to get a pepr account" Concrete goals are always useful, but remember part of the goal of this is come up with a mission for PEAR that will help us decide which of the concrete goals are most important. Also note, I'm making a list not writing a book, please no rants and long messages try to keeps things a list. Your help, is much appreciated. -josh "What do you want PEAR to be" eichorn

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