Re: Missing package documentation reminder

Obviously I sent this to the wrong ML, sorry. On Sat, 11 Nov 2006 18:04:47 +0000, Helgi Þormar wrote: > On 11/11/06, Sebastian Nohn <sebastian@nohn.net> wrote: >> 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 Use the database, not an outdated package.xml file (it 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. > > I'm not sure you actually read the whole thing (especially since you > quoted a very odd section of my email), never said I was against the > rules ... the QA doc reminder thing actually contradicts those rules, > that was my beef, Greg already came up with good solutions to this > whole thing, so no worries, tho I still haven't heard from Christian > about those suggestions. > > - Helgi -- There are no stupid questions, only stupid people