Re: PECL Account Approval - Was: Rant: Is anybody in power reading this at all?

On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 7:32 PM, Daniel Brown <danbrown@php.net> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Ferenc Kovacs <tyra3l@gmail.com> wrote: > > If anybody disagrees with any of these actions feel free to revert and > > explain the possible reasons. > > You can all feel free to take my opinion here with a grain of > salt, but what makes the most sense to me is to give Ferenc (tyrael) > authority to make decisions and approve or reject the accounts. He's > demonstrated that he can not only research and make intelligent, > educated decisions, but has also proven that he has the best interests > of PHP and the various subprojects at heart. > > He's around more frequently than a good majority of folks, too, > which should help to expedite the process. In a lot of cases, I could > see him being able to reach out to a PECL package maintainer and get a > nod or nay from them and determine the account eligibility within the > same day. And, at the least, he'd be an additional point of contact > and pair of eyes (though I'm stepping out on a limb here, since I have > no guarantee he does indeed have both of his eyes still in his head). > > Point being, he's a diligent researcher and excellent communicator > who could be very beneficial to the approval process, who could > facilitate project and developer transfers, and could help to "get 'em > while they're hot" --- that is, to bring new blood into the fold while > they've got the drive to get things done, rather than have their > request (and interest) stagnate. > > Not sure it would require a vote to give someone that kind of > authority, but if so, consider this my nomination. > Hi, I didn't wanted to reply to this mail, as it seemed awkward (Dan made me blush). I agree with Dan that we have a lot to improve on our process of reviewing pecl account request. I took the time and reviewed the remaining pecl account requests over the holidays and only 7 of them left pending (from the 60 or so). There were multiple cases where the package author already lost interest in the development/distribution of the package when I've contacted him/her about the request. We are talking about turn-around times of months and even years. :( Hopefully now that we have left packages and more people with the karma of managing account requests the response times will improve. I would also like to thank Johannes personally for his persistence on reviewing the code of the proposed packages and for putting together https://wiki.php.net/internals/review_comments -- Ferenc Kovács @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu