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

Ian Warner wrote:

I think there is a lot of validity in getting nitpicked by the developers and the users also, probably the user more than developers in all honesty! Most users I assume don't install packages that are not in the package list, if they could install ALPHA / BETA packages of all proposals then there is a wider community to give the feedback - this will make the packages better surely, and give some motivation to the developers and steer the package the right way. So I think that allowing all package proposals as long as they meet Alpha standards should be on the list for PEAR install - then to meet stable requirements takes a whole lot more.

I don't think that adding a bunch of proposal packages to the PEAR channel will do much good. It will probably just add a long list of confusing and not up to par packages. What might be helpful would be to create a proposal channel that could house all of the proposal packages. This would keep everything separated so that full PEAR packages are easy to find and proposals are easy to install. Scott