Just a PEAR-nut perspective here, because we deal with this exact issue. 2010/8/6 Philip Olson <phi...@roshambo.org>: > Also, I think it's far worse to scatter documentation all over the Internet > which is something PEAR is suffering from today.
We also suffer from scattered source code — http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=17646 I can think of a few instances where I've had to go to the waybackmachine to grab external docs, or dump the last release .tgz into cvs/svn.php.net because the external source was gone. This is a major issue we deal with frequently, especially with the size and age of PEAR. I would say, as long as the source, including docs, are maintained on a reputable, publicly available (d)vcs which the QA team has access to, there shouldn't major issues that can't be overcome — and github really makes this easy. I think the others that have spoken up have a good perspective on this. Improving the integration and flexibility of the PECL/bugtracker systems so they can integrate with reputable external development methods is a good thing. And as Philip stated - "The VCS landscape has changed, so let's accept it." -- Brett Bieber
