Re: elections for PEAR Group commence in 1 day

Mark Wiesemann wrote: > Hi, > > Gregory Beaver wrote: >> The first elections for the new PEAR Group will commence in about 24 >> hours, and last until May 1. > [...] >> If you wish to run, you have about 24 hours left to declare candidacy. > [...] > > As Justin, I'd like to add my name to the list of candidates. > > I'm working with PEAR since a few years. My work on PEAR started with a > lot of bug reports and feature requests, and finally really started by > taking over the maintainership of DB_Table from Paul M. Jones. Since > them, I'm work on several PEAR packages like Structures_DataGrid, > HTML_Table or the tableless renderer (and the appendant DHTMLRules) for > HTML_QuickForm. > > I'm also doing some more activities, like providing help on the > pear-general list and some PEAR forums (e.g. pear-forum.de or > pear-forum.org). I'm also responsible for building the weekly CHM > versions of the PEAR manual (for EN, DE, FR; together with Takagi > Masahiro who provides the JA version). > > Finally, although not being a member of the QA group, I also did (and > do) some QA work, e.g. by "insisting" on the PEAR CS, by following the > pear-cvs list for problems with the comments, or by watching the > compliance with the decisions of the old PEAR group. > > My goals as a possible member of the new PEAR Group are: > - make PEAR ready for PHP 5 and 6 (not only seen for PEAR2, but also > for the packages that are now in PEAR), while keeping the PHP 4 stuff > at least bug "free" (comparable to how DB is still maintained for bug > fixes, while MDB2 is the "active" database abstraction layer in PEAR) > - improve the way packages get into PEAR (the current PEPr rejections > showed some problems with the current way) > - improve the documentation, e.g. I like Greg's idea of providing > multiple package spanning tutorials (a rather short example of this > can be found on my website for QF, QFC, tableless renderer and > DHTMLRules) > > And finally something that is also important in my opinion: If I should > ever have not enough time anymore to work as a group member (not likely > for the next year, of course), I would tell it and I would not disappear > silently as some of the old group members did. Hi Mark, I have added your name to the list of candidates at http://pear.php.net/election/info.php?election=7&vote=1 Thanks, Greg