Re: Missing package documentation reminder

From: Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 07:48:15 +0000
Subject: Re: Missing package documentation reminder
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Helgi Þormar wrote: > Btw. it's "stupid" to say a package is useless without docs because that's > simply false information :) even tho only the devs will see these > emails, especially when the package is marked as beta, if those emails are > going to be sent out then please do so only on stable package where I'm > actually listed ... Use the database, not an outdated package.xml file (it > even seems a bit of wasted cycles to use the package xml because we have a > DB for this stuff) PEAR rules are that a stable package needs a documentation, and that is fine, as only very few packages are self-explanatory by reading the code. Good software needs documentation and QA. I suppose, this is the reason, why it is required by the rules. Sebastian

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