Re: Spam on PEAR site

On 18 June 2026 12:34:17 BST, "Rowan Tommins [IMSoP]" <imsop.php@rwec.co.uk> wrote: >On 18 June 2026 09:05:58 BST, Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote: >>On 18 June 2026 07:13:13 BST, Nick Sdot <php@nicksdot.dev> wrote: >> >>>Perhaps it would make sense to disable editing old and adding new proposals, and remove >>>the spam. >>> >>You'll have to talk to the pear team for that, as we don't have access. > >My email in October, copied to four different mailing lists plus the pear-group@ list alias, >received exactly zero responses. Nobody else on this thread has reported any success either. > >I think it's safe to conclude that there is no PEAR team, the entire project is abandoned, >and we need to decide what to do with the pear.php.net domain to protect the reputation of PHP. I have had some conversations with <https://people.php.net/ashnazg> in the recent past. >Probably that means setting up a read-only mirror somewhere and pointing the DNS at it so that >clients don't break overnight. I think that's good, but I still can't do that. Unless we scrape the existing site. (doable, but naughty). cheers Derick