making stuff a reality

Hi, as you can see from the meeting summary there are a bunch of todos that come of it. I might have missed some things. Anyways please speak up if you want to take on a certain part. The Qa team is already forming. 1. Forming of a QA team * Defining methods to ensure our quality standards 2. Some more research regarding phpt vs. phpUnit * Advantages of each framework * Possible improvements 3. deprecated packages. * Creation of an archive zone for deprecated pear und pecl packages 4. Method Naming Conventions suggestions for the PEAR Group 5. Forming of a Doc Team * write tutorials on how to write documentation * provide tools to make doc generation easy since Docbook is currently the standard format. * ensure that this generation does not need any non-standard tool or services on pear.php.net to be made available so that people don't need so install this software locally. 6. Forming of a PEAR group * coming up with regulations to handle itself * set standards (like method naming conventions) 7. PEAR Website * add votes and comments for packages * Proposals and voting 8. Installer * improve the version handling, we especially need to add a guide on version naming in the PEAR manual. * PECL installer does not work on Windows * PECL installer does not detect if an extension is loaded while upgrading it that creates a possible crash. * Need to check in the packager to verify if the version name is correct (that will be registered as an upgrade) * Need binaries handling for different platforms * updating stables should not be updated with lower "level" (beta, alpha) releases * BC breaking releases should not be done automatically (i.e. upgrade-all) * Installation of older versions should not require the complete URL but only by adding the version number 9. Installer Future plans: * mirror support * automatic dependency resolving through a local database * move away from xml-rpc * taking another look at an rpm based solution 10. PHP5 * Define what we need in PHP5 * Define how maintaining PHP4 and PHP5 will be done