Re: Please update package.xml to version 2 by September 1st, 2008

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Daniel O'Connor <daniel.oconnor@gmail.com> wrote: > Out of: > http://wiki.php.net/pear/packages/migration > > which ones do we *want* to save? > > My shortlist: > Validate_DE > Validate_FR > Validate_IS > Validate_NZ (kguest, unmaintained, needs release) > > Text_PathNavigator (maybe, the maintainer has resurfaced briefly) > Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer (maybe - its a lot of trouble, but it does > have a new maintainer) > Services_Delicious - just because it's webservicey and makes us look neat > Net_SMS - because we use it at work and people like it > Net_Growl - perhaps > MP3_Playlist - perhaps > Contact_Vcard_Parse  - perhaps This list looks good to me. > The rest I'd be more than happy to start treating as "end of life"'d - > ie, writing blog posts, making lots of noise about them being dropped > from PEAR2, etc publically. I don't think we should be publicizing our outdated packages - seems a little like airing our dirty laundry in public, especially when all it takes is a simple package.xml update and QA release from someone with time. Let's hold off on publicly announcing we have packages that people aren't maintaining. -- Brett Bieber