Re: Re: PEAR package retention policy

There's perhaps a couple more points to discuss and add, however so far it looks very good :) +1 On 4/5/07, Helgi Þormar Þorbjörnsson <dufuz@php.net> wrote:

Sounds good to me, thumbs up. - Helgi On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 00:44:14 +0400, Alexey Borzov wrote: Hi, As suggested by Greg in "Importing packages into CVS" thread, I'm posting a list of changes that should be done to PEAR guidelines and pearweb. == Problem == Currently PEAR website allows package maintainers to delete packages and package releases without any limitations whatsoever. This means that a maintainer (or someone having his password) may delete a several-years-old package with dozens of releases or delete any release of said package. Such actions will affect all packages or applications depending on the deleted package or requiring a specific deleted release of the package. == Proposed solution == In a nutshell, the proposed policy can be described as "Whatever was released though pear.php.net, stays released". The ability to delete a package release shall be limited to releases not older than two weeks (*). Package maintainers are advised to use this feature in the following cases only: - Broken package definition file

    - Missing required dependencies
    - Wrong dependencies
    - Missing files
    - etc.

- Newly introduced severe bugs in stable releases (**) - Severe violations of PEAR's coding standards and regulations

    - Incorrect names in public API
    - Incorrect package version

The ability to delete a package shall be limited to packages with no releases. = On "moved" packages = As some developers may wish to move their development away from PEAR's infrastructure, there should be a means to announce this move (as opposed to declaring their packages unsupported), closing the bug-tracker and giving a prominent link to a new location. (*) The actual period is discussable. (**) Releases of stability level lower than "stable" are done for testing purposes and are expected to contain bugs. -- There are no stupid questions, only stupid people -- PEAR Development Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

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