Re: A virtual file system

On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Jon Parise wrote: > On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 08:48:08AM +0800, Alan Knowles wrote: > > > >As I said, PEAR developers are welcome to get Horde CVS accounts or to just > > >send us patches to work on this. > > > > Not that I wouldnt love a Horde acount :), but one of the benifits of > > using pear's cvs, is that when there is something 'obviously wrong' with > > a pear package - eg. A bug... anyone with a pear account can fix it - by > > commiting it. (and get shouted at if they break something :).. > > I generally prefer a more monolithic development style, where all > changes get filtered through one or two developers. PEAR packages > aren't ginormous pieces of software, and I don't like the sometimes > negative results of random people committing to the same block of code > all the time (e.g. gross style changes / inconsistencies, different > design methodologies, etc.). Is this to say that PEAR packages are inconsistent? It's true, there is still work to do. I learn something new about making things consistent everytime I peek at someone else's package, but it's coming along. Are there volunteers for a janitor crew to look through the PEAR repository and check how things stack-up on the consistency dept.? Maybe if someone wrote a 'swingset' type application that used a good chunk of PEAR's classes, it would be easier to spot inconsistencies. > As a sort of aside, I'm also not thrilled with the general lack of > discussion in the PEAR community before changes are made to packages. > Granted, things are getting better, and I'm sure many PEAR developers > discuss the code elsewhere than this list, but it's still problematic. Where do people discuss a lot of code changes. I know that I have my little empire with my packages, so there's not a lot of discussion. I can't get connected to the IRC channel (something about missing ident), so maybe some things happen there too.. - brent