PEAR-PECL relations announcement

Hi, just to make things a bit clearer, because I have the feeling that this did not get communicated clearly enough. PECL used to be a subproject of PEAR. However the PEAR Group felt that this hindered PECL more than it helped. We therefore decided to give leadership of PECL to a separate entity, so that PECL could gain more momentum. PECL leadership could come up with its own regulations etc. As you may have noticed from Wez's announcement (http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=pear-dev&m=106392922123993&w=2) the other day, he has taken over this position. So what does that mean for PEAR? Actually we think it doesn't change things a lot for PEAR at all. Development of packages will go on as usual. PECL packages never really fit into our peer review process anyways so that PECL package where never much of a topic on the PEAR lists. We will however continue to provide infrastructure in the form of pearweb and the pear installer. These will be used by PECL just as before. However PECL will get its own site with its own look and feel over at pecl.php.net. As a result only issues with pearweb internals (not typos which should go to peclwebmaster) on pecl.php.net should be discussed on PEAR lists. Only issues with the installer not issues with PECL packages itself should be discussed on PEAR mailinglists. When in doubt first contact the PECL lists. We will probably soon create a new mailinglist to discuss the PEAR infrastructure. Until then pear-dev is the place to go. So what does that mean for PECL? As mentioned above PECL will get its own regulations. All PECL related discussions will take place on their own mailinglists. We already separated the CVS and the CVS commit list a while back. So I guess this change really did not come out of nowhere. We think this will mean that both projects can now better focus on their specific issues. The community for each while having considerable overlap was also too large which sort of overwhelmed the PECL people. This step will therefore help build up a community feel among the PECL people and will also help us, the PEAR community, to focus on our strengths. The future looks bright yadayada ;-) Regards, the PEAR Group