Major enhancements to pearweb

Hi everyone, Thanks to a little time on an airplane, and a bit of good work by Arnaud Limbourg, we have two new features at pearweb: 1) account registration for voting in PEAR's general elections is now automated (arnaud) 2) package homepages now display very useful information about bug tracker activity than can be used to judge whether a package is being actively maintained independent of the label. (me) Check out your packages to see how yours stack up against the rest of PEAR! Note that the age of bugs is the important thing here. For instance, the Pager package is ranked 169 out of 170 packages with open bugs (bad), even though it has only 1 open bug, because the bug is more than 2 years old. This bug could easily be resolved (excellent solution is suggested by the original opener, Alan Knowles), and is an example of a bug that should be cleaned up as it helps to give PEAR a bad name for no good reason at all. By fixing and closing this bug, Pager would go from #169 to #1 instantly. Everyone wins. Automated account registration is in place to allow the implementation of PHP-wide elections. Many elections will only be open to developers with pear.dev karma, like PEAR president, for instance. Some important elections, such as what direction PEAR should take, are going to be open to all people with an interest in PEAR. Shortly, I will post our first official election to sift through mission ideas for PEAR, and help to determine where we should go next. At that time, we will be advertising the voting registration and the election simultaneously, and will ask for your help in spreading the word. Now, I need some heavy testing. Those of you with a spare email account that is not the same as your existing PEAR account, would you browse to http://pear.php.net/account-request.php and register to vote in a general PEAR election? WARNING: *Before* testing, check the "Last updated: Wed Nov 29 05:04:46 2006 UTC" string at the bottom of the page. If it says "Wed Nov 29" then wait a bit. The update should say "Last updated: Sun Dec 3 05:04:46 2006 UTC" or something along those lines. Another way to test is to browse to http://pear.php.net/account-request-confirm.php - wait until you don't get a 404 before trying to open the account. We mainly want to hear how the flow process works for you, what is confusing, what works great, and so on. Thanks, Greg