Re: Something about PEAR policy

From: Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 23:06:08 +0000
Subject: Re: Something about PEAR policy
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In article <3B5A0976.250BB60@fast.no>, Stig S. Bakken wrote: >After all this is open source, if the rules or practice are too strict, >someone will fork or start a similar project, which I would consider a >failure for PEAR. Why would it be considered a failure? If one thing leads to another good thing it should make the original coders proud, even if the forked project thinks the original code is bad or lacks x, y or z. > >So to get out of this mess we need to define PEAR more clearly. Maybe >we could have avoided this situation if I had been more into writing >philosophy instead of coding in the beginning, but today that's not my >job anymore, it's ours. I think a lack of documentation is the real problem. Most coders are not familiar with the api documentation that is currently used. Regards, Hans -- http://phpreview.nl.linux.org >

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