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

Hi, I'd suggest to link that wiki page directly under "PECL resources" on http://pecl.php.net/support.php for better reachability. Regards Anatoliy On Wed, 2013-01-02 at 19:10 +0100, Ferenc Kovacs wrote: > 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 >