Re: Rant: Is anybody in power reading this at all?

Rasmus, On Fri, 2012-12-14 at 08:39 -0800, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > I saw your request, but yes, I ignored it waiting for some sort of > confirmation from the existing module maintainer, or even a hint from > you that you had contacted the existing maintainer. We don't just > randomly give people commit access to other peoples' code with some ack > from them. Lars Strojny supported him in a thread where Pieter de Zwar was quoted and on CC. So I assume it's ok. (But I don't have the powers needed) http://news.php.net/php.pecl.dev/9968 johannes > On 12/14/2012 06:46 AM, Bernhard Weißhuhn wrote: > > Dear almighty guardians of the holy svn grail! > > > > One month ago I applied for svn access. > > I was told to use the form, which I did. > > > > I was neither accepted nor rejected, I was simply ignored. > > I asked again if there was anything more I had to do in order to be able to contribute. > > I was simply ignored. > > > > Now I see other account requests being ignored as well. > > > > Would it be too much to ask what is going on? > > > > Are new accounts suspended until the migration to git has been finished? > > Is the person handing out the accounts on holiday? > > Is there another secret form asking even more ridiculous questions to be filled out? > > Is nobody interested in new developers anymore? > > > > And: who is in charge of granting access anyway? > > > > Transparency in this regard certainly won't hurt you. > > Not more than driving away volunteers, that is. > > > > I don't mean to attack anybody in person (how could, I have absolutely no idea > > who's in charge), > > I'm just trying to point out how frustrating the process of contributing to pecl is > > for a newcomer. > > > > I was thinking about packaging another pecl module besides the one I applied for. > > You know what? Forget it. > > > > bkw > > > > > > > >