Creating a PEAR repository

Greeting, I was wondering if some one could direct me to the proper documents or persons to speak in order to be able to create a pear repository, and the requirements for this. A brief introduction, at the recent PHP-CON in San Francisco I had the chance to meet and talk with Rasmus, in his opening talk he sais that PEAR methods of installation and automatic dependencies resolution for the PEAR packages might be just what the doctor ordered for our own project [The Postnuke CMS], we further discuss this possibility and Rasmus recommended me to contact the list for guidance. So here I am some time has past since then and now we are about to modularize and prepare for a PEAR like distribution based on components for Postnuke, and hope we can find some help in creating a beta repository in order to start a test period with package delivery using this method including the dependencies feature. I have some questions like requirements etc, but also, does the PEAR repository provides stats? Like how many components are requested and served? Or any other kind of stats? Any help would be greatly appreciated, looking forward to your reply. Thanks in advanced Cheers Sam Postuke CMS Postnuke Development Team http://www.postnuke.com/