Re: Spam on PEAR site

On 18-6-2026 18:33, Juliette Reinders Folmer wrote:

On 18-6-2026 13:34, Rowan Tommins [IMSoP] 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.

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. Probably that means setting up a read-only mirror somewhere and pointing the DNS at it so that clients don't break overnight.

Just a heads-up: I would very much favour some form of a readonly version of the site to stay available - probably with a banner that this is only still available for archive purposes (and disable any logins and form-submissions except admin). I, for one, still semi-regularly have to go back to the issue tracker on the PEAR site to dig up the reasoning/motivation for decisions taken long ago for an old codebase, where the commit messages, especially for older commits, are not great. Not being able to do so anymore would definitely have some impact on the work being done on that codebase.

Was just trying to dig up the background of some old bugfixes on the PEAR website and when I click to see the details of an individual bug report, I now get an "ERROR: the user who submitted this bug has not yet confirmed their email address" page instead of seeing the bug details. Example: https://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=20093 Clearly this is not helpful. Not sure when this changed, but felt like something related to last month's conversation, so I figured I'd flag it.

Smile, Juliette