On Jan 8, 11:40 am, Fabien POTENCIER <[EMAIL PROTECTED] project.com> wrote: > > Even though I think at the Zend Framework, > > they take the whole specification and acceptance to a level that is > > too hard for people to contribute, the way you describe it here makes > > it much better. > > I do not totally agree. > It's true, at ZF there's a wide use of high level PHP constructs and > professional development practices (such as deep unit testing) but I > don't think Symfony should start will a lower expectation.
Oh no, believe me, I am all for high expectations. I just think that to be admitted to the "incubator" or "experimental" repository, these expectations should not be as complicated as ZF, where (the last time I looked at, which is a while ago) to be admitted to the incubator you already need to write nearly full specs of your expected class layout, API, etc. The way I see it at least, the incubator is a brooding place, where (small) idea's can come to life and develop into good and stable plugins. Then, before these plugins are moved to the official/core/base repository, they of course have to live up to all the expectations for the admission to that repository, including such things as documentation, unit and functional testing, and maybe even some kind of statement that the plugin will be supported for a long time to come. That way, you have a place for people to play around with things and still contribute. It keeps your plugin development open, in a way where other people can jump in and help with development of a plugin, or even take ownership of plugins that have been abandoned by their original developer. If we put too high an expectation on our incubator/ experimental repository, we might not see a lot of possibly useful plugins at all in our community, or we might even see non-sf repositories springing up, fragmenting where to get plugins (and I think that is the last thing you want ... it is one of the things that annoys the hell out of me in debian/ubuntu etc ... the fact that aside from debian, I still might need to add other repo's as well). just my 2 eurocents. Stefan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "symfony developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-devs?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
