[phpGroupWare-developers] Asking for approval

[Sigurd Nes]

Hi all,
As you probably know ? there is a Norwegian project that are building on this 
excellent software.
phpGroupWare has proven to be a very powerful platform for building 
applications.

The application 'property' is a facilities management system ? started in 2001 
as an add-on to commercial system ? and has grown to powerful tool over the 
years with capabilities of e-commerce, helpdesk, project management...
It is currently the production system for the social housing company of the 
municipal of Bergen - with 5.000 dwellings (at this writing the system contains 
a history of 47.952 work orders)

We are porting all the development back into phpGroupWare (Dave is making sure 
the code is consistent and giving advice of coding standard) ? and this will 
lead to (at last) a 0.9.18 some time this spring I think.

However ? there is one point where we have trouble reaching an agreement of how 
things should work ? and I would really appreciate some opinions from the 
community:

We all agree that the code should run with E_NOTICES on.

My point of view is that debugging messages are a helpful tool for developers 
to trace down flaws in the code ? but for the normal user in a production 
environment ? it should be possible to suppress this messages.
This is currently implemented (in our project) by checking the log_level ? if 
log_level is set to 'N' (which is the (new) default setting) ? the notices are 
printed.

Dave's position is that notices are bugs that shouldn't be neglected or else 
they will pile up ? and wants a permanent setting which prints all notices what 
so ever.

So what I am asking is ? would you allow the flexible alternative?

Regards

Sigurd