[Solar-talk] solarphp.org (finally)

Antti Holvikari anttih at gmail.com
Fri Sep 22 23:40:36 PDT 2006


On 9/23/06, Paul M Jones <pmjones at solarphp.com> wrote:
>
> On Sep 22, 2006, at 7:05 PM, Clay Loveless wrote:
>
> > On Sep 22, 2006, at 3:50 PM, Antti Holvikari wrote:
> >
> >> Hope this is not too much effort to get done. This also relates to
> >> how
> >> easily we are going to allow new vendors, I mean if a vendor has just
> >> one class and we do the whole deal for that, set up trac and svn,
> >> which I think is not reasonable. I would like to a see a pretty low
> >> barrier to enter and add new classes to the repo. What do you think?
> >
> > The process for setting up a new trac and SVN is pretty simple once
> > it's scripted, which it essentially is now.
> >
> > So, as far as the barrier to entry, _technically_ it won't be a big
> > deal. I don't know if everyone agrees on the desire the barrier to
> > entry be low (perhaps we do, perhaps we don't). But, at this point
> > with what I've got scripted, the height of any barrier is purely a
> > political decision. :)
>
> We want *some* barriers; otherwise, any random joe who decides that
> "free SVN and Trac space" seems like a good deal will come calling.

Ofcourse. I didn't mean the barrier would be *that* low....

> I think everyone who's on the list now, who has actually contributed
> one way or another, has earned a place in whatever initial setup we
> end up with.  But I also think that future arrivals will need to
> present a similar level of commitment (or commits ;-).

...and this was *exactly* what I thought. And with this in mind, I'm
sure there will be a reasonable amount of vendors and the code quality
will be good enough.

-- 
Antti Holvikari <http://phphalo.com>


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