Re: Selling PEAR

On 7/10/07, Jeff MacDonald <jam@zoidtechnologies.com> wrote:

greetings! On Tuesday 10 July 2007 10:14 am, David Sanders wrote: [...snipped...] I've asked the lead of PHP Excel if he'd consider moving over to pear and his response was no. Now I reckon that PEAR should be *the* place to come to if you want any libraries in PHP. So my question is: How can I sell PEAR to this guy? I'm leaning towards just contributing the stuff I worked on to his project, but I feel that it should all be in PEAR. if you asked him and he said "no", then you need to be *very* cautious with further contact with him... if you come off as a zealot, it will give our community a bad reputation. --

     David Sanders
     shangxiao

regards, -- Jeff MacDonald, Zoid Technologies <http://zoidtechnologies.com/> "Web Applications That Suck Less" -- PEAR Development Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Well there's a few things to take into considerations in this case: 1) His mind his maybe set (like most M$ people) so he'll stick to CodePlex .. open source with (c) microsoft at the bottom.. kinda fun :) 2) You can show him the vision he gets for his package, and the number of download and views of other packages. 3) The number of developers in pear and the growing number (counting PEPr proposals, etc) 4) Bug tracker .. (Is that really a + ? :P Well yeah, it works better and better) 4.1) Roadmaps 4.2) Statistics features, etc. 5) Vibrant community :D 6) No more accepting php4 packages 7) version control of course 8) different levels of access to a project 9) Release pulling 10) Magazine (PHP|Arch) announce when biggest+most popular packages are realeased.. 11).. The name is cool. -- David Coallier, Founder & Software Architect, Agora Production (http://agoraproduction.com) 51.42.06.70.18