Re: Documentation..

On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 00:37, Lukas Smith wrote: > Anatoly Techtonik wrote: > > Hello Justin, > > > > > >>>LS> why not just open a feature request with a link to the source ... i > >>>LS> doubt any developer wouldnt be happy to add the example to the distro > >>>LS> after a quick look over the source. > >>> > >>>Because it is not a feature request and dumb users like me are either > >>>too lazy to contribute to stale closed community or don't have a proper > >>>amount of imagination to draw association between Feature Request > >>>and Example. It can be my only IMHO, but (RFE != Example for existing > >>>feature). > > > > > > JP> Stale? Closed? Are you trying to be a troll? If something hasn't been > > JP> updated then point it out and it will be dealt with. QA is doing a > > JP> good job trying to get maintainers for abandoned packages. *People are > > JP> busy*. You have to understand that this is all done *for free*. > > > > Stale means that there's no indication of PEAR's activity or it's > > status. Stale also mean, that users can see the result of they work. > > Their efforts are most of the time wasted and they can't get recognition. > > Stale means that 7 voices is enough to rule another 200. Stale means, > > that everybody seems to prefer to skip the problem than to solve it, > > because everyb. has no time. Stale also means that there's no trust to > > users. And hence no trust to developers. > > I dont think you realize the level of democracy PEAR has compared to > most other opensource projects ... php inparticular. Your point about > documentation in general is well taken. Your arguments on a few ruling > the rest are so far off base ... Hehe I'm hearing sometimes from X people that PEAR is too much bureaucracy, to many rules they say ;) Just had to poke that in :P - Helgi