Re: about the pear group and the president

ooh helgi, it NEVER included internals!!! We've had internals 'weeklies' running since before PEAR was even born!!! It did have PECL release coverage though. It died after 12 issues on zend.com because Jan - and then I - simply didn't have time to wade through 500+ emails every week trying to figure out what might be important some time in the future. I'd heartily recommend that you automate as much as you possibly can and allow a group of people access to throw comment into the mix on an ad-hoc basis. On 5/9/07, Helgi Þormar <helgith@gmail.com> wrote:

Yeah I remember those, the zend ones were more general tho, including pecl and php internals and such. Would be nifty to have something like that back ... at least for pear, a bit more details I suppose - Helgi On 5/9/07, Jesus M. Castagnetto <jcastagnetto@yahoo.com> wrote: Just a bit of history --- Helgi Þormar <helgith@gmail.com> wrote:

On 5/8/07, till <klimpong@gmail.com> wrote:

On 5/8/07, Helgi Þormar <helgith@gmail.com> wrote:

Yeah I agree, we'd rather want a dedicated set of people doing this,

kinda

in the direction of www.fedoranews.org or similar :-)

Maybe "Planet PEAR"?

Nahh that suggest something in the direction of a feed planet, i.e. planet-php The idea would be more that it would be done by many contributers

(freely

editable ?) and perhaps have some "head" persons to make sure the

content

is okey and looks decent (f.ex. style wise) and make it weekly,

bi-weekly

or monthly, kinda even in the format like fedoranews has (the layout is

new

but it seems to work well)

At some point in the distant past :-) we had the "PEAR Weekly News" in several languages even. There was some kludgy code for that somewhere on the pearweb CVS IIRC [1], so you can do something along those lines but better than what we did back then. At some point I think that even the Zend guys picked that up and kept it going for some time, reporting the latest releases from PEAR, but that is also history now (I think). Cheers. [1] http://cvs.php.net/viewvc.cgi/pearweb/weeklynews/ -- Jesus M. Castagnetto (jcastagnetto@yahoo.com) Web site: http://www.castagnetto.org/ Research: http://metallo.scripps.edu/ PEAR stuff: http://pear.php.net/user/jmcastagnetto __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com