Re: [PEAR-DEV] Re: Over-enthusiastic "unsupported packages"

[email protected] (david costa) Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:28:49 +0100
Newsgroups php.pear.qa
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Daniel,
can I also ask why my package http://pear.php.net/package/DB_Sqlite_Tools
became not maintained ?
Best Regards
David

Am 19. März 2012 15:22 schrieb Daniel O'Connor <[email protected]>:

> 2012/3/13 Alexey Borzov <[email protected]>
>
> > Hi Daniel,
> >
> > I accidentally noticed that my package HTML_Template_Sigma was
> >  a) Marked unsupported;
> >  b) Moved to github (where I don't even have an account as haven't yet
> > found time to learn Git workflow);
> >  c) Assigned a new maintainer: http://news.php.net/php.pear.**qa/6043<
> http://news.php.net/php.pear.qa/6043>
> >
> > Everything was done without any attempt to contact me whatsoever, even
> > though I regularly write to PEAR-related lists and can be easily reached.
> >
> > I don't have problems with adding another maintainer to the package, but
> > I'd prefer being notified of such drastic changes. Can you please be less
> > secretive about your work?
> >
>
> Ah that appears to be friendly fire :/
>
> TBH, apart from the 3 unreleased fixes from ~2008 it doesn't look like the
> kind of package that I would assume is unmaintained/mark us such. (ie: I
> know you are active in the community.)
> It did get picked up back in 2010 by some of the semi automated stuff I was
> doing.
>
> I don't recall doing anything further bar the shifting to github - my level
> of checking for that is "it's got a big unmaintained banner" on it.
>