Re: Re: [metabase-dev] MDB news

<mlemos@acm.org> wrote : > Hello, > > On 09/14/2002 04:31 PM, Björn Schotte wrote: >>> [...] from authors from any part of the world and gives the >>> equal chance to hundreds of effective contributors to get immediate >>> recognition and feedback about the work they contribute. >> >> This is the same as for PEAR, so what? > > I don't think you see the difference. When a author has a class of his > own published in the PHP Classes, he gets the immediate attention of > tens of thousands of users that are eager to learn about new classes. > When the files of a class are updated, all those that downloaded them > before are notified so they can be kept upto date of classes of their > interest. > > Also, popular classes feature in the top downloads pages providing > further exposure. This works as a sweet compensation for the ego of the > authors that contribute their work for free. > > PEAR does not provide any of this kind of opportunities to get immediate > feedback and recognition because it was not meant to work that way. > > As user you may not understand how valuable this can be for the authors > probably because you feel that authors have the duty to contribute their > work for free because PHP is free. > > If you doubt the wonders that this can make to a open source software > author, I suggest that you try it for yourself. Just try contribute with > any class of yours and enjoy the feedback and recoginition that the PHP > Classes site provides any author for free. As stated before, this is not the place to advertise for your website. Use your newsletter for that. Bertrand Mansion Mamasam