Re: Major enhancements to pearweb

Justin Patrin wrote: > On 12/2/06, Greg Beaver <greg@chiaraquartet.net> wrote: >> 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. >> > > I'm unclear on whether I was supposed to actually attempt to create an > account so I tried to create a "general election" account. It failed > with: > ERROR: > * DB Error: no such table Aha - thanks. I forgot to add the table to pearweb's live database, will do that now. Greg