Re: Plans for pear.php.net

Martin Jansen wrote:

* Package suggestion system (PSS):

    PSS will provide an easy way for programmers to announce their
    script to the PEAR developers: Instead of posting an
    announcement on pear-dev (like it happens today) the programmers
    will be able to fill out a form on pear.php.net, which will generate
    an email sent to pear-dev.
    People with a website account will then be able to vote for the
    package for n days.
    After n days, the package will be

      a) accepted, if there are more positive than negative votes and
         if there are at least 5 positive votes.
      b) rejected, if there are more negative votes than positive ones.
      c) postponed, if the positive votes are equal to the negative
         ones. In this case, the vote can be either restarted or one
         of the PEAR administrators has to give a final vote.

<scnr> This is an incomplete distinction into cases ;-). </scnr> I glanced over the mails on this list for some weeks now and I think the "at least 5 positive votes" is not optimal. It seems that sometimes people are not motivated to give a +1 (caused of lacking time or interest) even if it would deserve it. I would go for a rule like: "if there are less than five total votes, send a reminder mail and longer the deadline by n days" and cut the "if there are at least 5 positive votes" from rule a) just a thought Matthias