Re: Package Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer: Help offer

On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Alexey Borzov <borz_off@cs.msu.su> wrote: > Hi David, > > > David Coallier wrote: > >> The PEAR Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer >>> >>> <http://pear.php.net/package/Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer> >>> packages has been >>> inactive development-wise quite alot of time. I tried mailing the >>> maintainers of the package, but never got an answer. There are patches >>> waiting to be incorporated which are around for more than 3 years. (for >>> an >>> example see this URL: >>> http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=1572#1149063438 ). >>> The package was 'maintained' by these persons: >>> >>> * Xavier Noguer >>> <http://pear.php.net/user/xnoguer> (lead, inactive) >>> * Mika Tuupola >>> <http://pear.php.net/user/tuupola> (developer, inactive) >>> >>> As you can see both are inactive. >>> >>> I am the development lead for a big Open Source project (namely >>> LimeSurvey, >>> http://www.limesurvey.org) and we are using the library >>> inside our >>> software. >>> So I am interested to develop this package futher and I would like to be >>> added as maintainer as this package. I have lots and lots of coding >>> experience with PHP and would like to ask for permissione taking this one >>> over (and maybe packages closely related to this). >>> >>> Thank you and I am looking forward to hear from you >>> >> >> Hey there, I just saw your SVN account request coming in but I was >> wondering, usually what we do is before approving SVN access we let >> the developers submit patches to opened bugs and this way the >> community will review your patches and make sure the quality of >> development is good enough. >> >> Let me know if you have any patches that you'd like the community to >> review and then usually after a few weeks, you don't need to request >> community reviews :) >> > > David, we are talking here about the package with *the* highest number of > open bugs: > http://pear.php.net/bugs/stats.php?sort_by=Open&rev=1 > > I think proper welcoming procedure for a person who wants to maintain > *that* is to kiss the proverbial dust under his feet, not ask him to jump > through additional hoops. > > Also there is no *requirement* here > http://pear.php.net/manual/en/newmaint.takingover.php for any > community > review. > somebody update the manual asap. -- http://blogs.linux.ie/kenguest/