Re: Re: [metabase-dev] MDB news

Hello, On 09/15/2002 07:39 PM, Bertrand Mansion 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.

Oh, I was missing that same old hostility of the people that are gealous of me or the PHP Classes site, Metabase, etc... You may need to pay more attention. I did not bring the PHP Classes site to the subject. Bjorn did. I was just explaining why the PHP Classes site provides a different level of recognition and feedback to the users that contribute to it unlike Bjorn claimed. Maybe something to be seen as an example of how to successfully attract more developers to contribute to a budgetless project. You may take the tip or not, that is your problem. Anyway, if you too are also envious of the success of the PHP Classes site but at the same time do not want to me tell about it as you seem to think of it as a threat to PEAR, why do you keep making it the subject of discussions here? Doesn't it seem counterproductive for somebody like you that wants to fight against the PHP Classes and Manuel Lemos dids? The way I see it, the more you keep talking against it, the more you attract people that never heard about it, as your envy makes people more curious to verify if there is a reason to keep talking about it. -- Regards, Manuel Lemos