Major enhancements to pear.php.net
| From: | Gregory Beaver | Date: | Mon, 05 Mar 2007 06:07:19 +0000 |
| Subject: | Major enhancements to pear.php.net | ||
| Groups: | php.pear.dev php.pear.general | ||
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Hello,
Today, the PEAR website was significantly enhanced. Most of the
enhancements are in the bug tracker. Here's a short list of the new
features:
- all users submitting bugs get a pear.php.net account if they don't
already have one, no more captchas needed for bug reports once you have
one and are logged in
- patch tracking is enabled for bugs with revision tracking per-patch.
Now, patch files can be uploaded, and downloaded as necessary
- package.xml can be auto-generated based on a roadmap, including a
brand new package.xml for a new package releasing version 0.1.0
- email addresses will no longer be displayed, mangled or not, and
instead the bug tracker will link to the user page for a bug user, which
will allow others to email you without having any access to your email
address, so spam will be cut back significantly. This does not affect
existing bugs, although I plan to go through the database and update it
on a bug-by-bug basis for those who opened/commented on bugs with
existing PEAR accounts.
Although this is all good news, I am also writing because these are all
new features that significantly affect the way things work. If you have
ANY problems, please open a bug. If you have problems opening a bug,
write a message to the pear-webmaster list
(pear-webmaster@lists.php.net) or Reply to this message (not Reply-All
please). I have done a lot of testing but do acknowledge that humanity
= makes mistakes.
I hope these features will make both fixing and reporting bugs as well
as implementing new features far easier for the PEAR community at large,
but as always, they are open for tweaking and now that we have a patch
tracker, patches are welcome :)
Thanks,
Greg