Re: Plans for pear.php.net

On 2002-09-23 14:23, while getting another beer from the fridge I saw a little yellow card, on which Markus Wolff wrote:

I thing one or two votes are not enough. One vote will most likely come from the developer himself and you´ll always be able to find one more. Three would be appropriate, IMHO. Having a decent quality assurance even before adding something to PEAR is a good thing, so PEAR won´t be as polluted with classes that severely suck as "Insert-Favorite-WWW-Script-Archive-Here". The trick is not to make it too hard (so we´ll have only very few contributors) and at the same time not too easy (so PEAR will be polluted with trash) to add new packages to PEAR. I think the good solution would be 3 votes, but one of them should be from some kind of a "superuser". There should be some group of the most active PEAR developers, that can validate the classes that they are good enough to add them to repository.

Another approach is that the voting would be qualified - I mean normal users would have only 1 vote, registered PEAR developers - 2 votes, some super-developers 3 to 5 votes. And Each class would have to have e.g. at least 3 votes. Besides the developer that made the class cannot vote on it - this would eliminate the situation that the super-developers can "pass" the class by only voting on it. As for the groups - I thnk they should be created basing on the number of classes that are already in PEAR - and e.g.: people that has 3 and less classes and are registered in PEAR - has 2 votes people that has 3-5 classes - has 3 votes etc. Of course the numbers might be changes (I don't know PEAR enough to give good proportions :) ) What do you think ? Voyteck