Re: Some PEAR web-related proposals

Hi, On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 15:56:13 +0100 "Alexander Merz" <alexander.merz@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de> wrote: > Hi boys and (unfortunalty no) girls, sad, sad.. > 1. Add a feature request form on a prominent position on pearweb. A user on the > german php newsgroup wrote, he reads the feature requests on the phpnuke > website. Often the are written by users, not by programmers. The users have > intresting ideas because they doesn't think about implemention. +1 > 2. Separate the PEAR bug tracking from the PHP bug tracking. All PEAR related > stuff is at the moment only covered by one drop-down issue for pearweb, peardoc > and all classes and extensions. > Another problem is a user would markup a peardoc bug as documention bug, not as > PEAR bug. Again +1. This may be the right place for the "new" php bugsystem wich somebody pretends to be working on (zak?). > 3. Add a News section equal to php.net. Nobody out there knows something about > the PEAR installer, important releases and other new cool stuff. ehere we go: +1 > 4. Add a "Behind the scence" section maybe as an non standard part of the > manual. This section should contain a regular summary of the PEAR-Dev > mailinglist discussions (i have the weekly ZE2-ml summary in my mind). And this > would be the right place for documentions about the internals of PEAR. I.e. a > description of the internals of PEAR::DB or why IT doesn't work like xy. This > could include subjective comments of the maintainer/programmer. This section is > directed to PEAR developers not PEAR users. +10. Personally I find those "behind the scenes" sections very useful to unerstand the spirit of a certain project. This e.g. helps my to integrate into it. > 5. Set up a Groupware. [...] Althoug it will be challange to manage it at its startup, I think it it worth trying. I do not mind using Horde or anything other as long as it fits our needs and is, if needed, easily customizable. > 6. Make more advertising! PEAR isn't brand into the mind of the PHP people. > Maybe you remember the IRC discussion about PEAR banners with slogans like > "Rasmus use PEAR, for what do you wait?". Why not create such banners? Some > OpenSource-related sites offers free ads for non-commercial OS projects. One of the best suggestions here. As I can see on mailinglists and IRC, anytime PEAR is mentioned at least one is asking "What is Pear/Where can I get it?" Jan -- Q: Thank Jan? A: http://geschenke.an.dasmoped.net/