Re: Plans for pear.php.net

On Thu, 3 Oct 2002 04:33:52 +0100 "Jon Wood" <jon@jellybob.co.uk> wrote: > I don't think that their is an "elite few" here - having proposed a new > package recently, I found everybody to be very helpful in directing it > towards the best solution for everybody to use, and watching the list, I've > noticed that a few other packages have also got quick approvals. I second this. It´s fairly easy to get your package into PEAR if you are open for discussion on how to improve it and what additional features are neccessary to make it more useful to a bigger audience of people. Also, it often helps in evaluating your own work: Does it make sense what I do? And does it make sense only to me or also to others? Are there still flaws in my code that I did not think about? IMHO it is this kind of discussion taking place before a package is introduced into PEAR that makes it such a high quality repository. Granted, there ain´t many packages yet, but those that are available are clearly of very high quality. Okay, the coding guidelines and general rules of PEAR surely add their share, too :-) The key for someone to have his package in PEAR is to keep an open mind and to make changes where necessary so that your package conforms to the standards everybody else agrees on and for making the package more useful to a greater number of people. You can´t just rumble in here and try to force people to accept your packages as they are just because you think they´re good. And that is a good thing(tm). > I'd also like to take the oppurtunity to point out that this is turning into > a flame war, so how about toning things down a little - the last few e-mails > have given the impressions there's some sort of CIA conspiracy behind PEAR > ;) As a matter of fact I´ve used newsgroups, mailinglists and the like since the good old times of Fidonet and Zerberus-Net and I´ve never been annoyed enough to filter out messages from particular users... but right now I really feel tempted... Regards, Markus -- Markus Wolff <wolff@21st.de>