Re: Plans for pear.php.net

Hello, On 09/24/2002 10:50 PM, Pierre-Alain Joye wrote:

Providing an easy and visible interface for package proposals is a very good day, joined with a kind of polls to see if there is a need too. But I do not like to see an automatic system to accept/reject packages after a certain amount of time/hits/pears/apples. This task must be done by an admin, someone who has a good view of PEAR and get the approbations of others admins. Here 'admins' means simply a group of responsable, available persons. I know a lot of the current admins are very busy, but we can find enough volunteers in the active members of the PEAR community. Why am I against an automatic system ? imho, we are not cpan, hotscripts, phpclasses or others scripts archives hosts. We will never get thousands of proposals per week, or if we ll get this amount of proposals, well, PEAR reaches success, and it will be very difficult at all to keep consistency&coherence in the packages tree.

Is it my impression or you fear that the implementation of a truly democratic process of acceptance of packages, to be voted by the community, can be a threat to the self empowered elite that determined PEAR rules? The way I see, until there is a truly democratic process that does not favour the hidden interests of those that are in charge of PEAR today, there will be a lot of developers being hurt for being excluded by the current elite. This is not a community like effort. If the PEAR project really wishes that other developers contribute by sharing their know-how in form of useful code, everybody should be given an equal chance to see their contributions approved. If only the elite of a few self elected developers can vote or have a more weight than anybody else, chances are that the vote will carry bias that is not justified in the aspect of providing everybody an equal chance. Failing to provide an equal chance of contributing, will always be counterproductive for the PEAR project as it will certainly lead to more and more people saying bad things about it in every public forum, discouraging others not only to contribute but also to use PEAR. If that is not what you want, think again. -- Regards, Manuel Lemos