new blog for PEAR group/president and mirrors

Hi all, The PEAR Group has initiated a new blog for the PEAR Group/PEAR President to post repository-wide up-to-the-minute information, it can be found at http://blog.pear.php.net. Thanks to Josh Eichorn for hosting the server. This is one of the first small attempts at making the processes of governing PEAR more transparent, we look forward to your feedback on how things move from here. Also good news is that PEAR now has 2 official mirrors, http://us.pear.php.net and http://de.pear.php.net. You can use these mirrors to install packages via: pear config-set preferred_mirror us.pear.php.net or pear config-set preferred_mirror de.pear.php.net For users in Europe or beyond, this could be a significant improvement in network latency. The mirrors do not yet mirror the documentation, but depending on a number of factors, this is not ruled out for the future. We will be testing the mirrors for a little while, and then will be open to adding new mirrors, if others are interested in helping out. Thanks, Greg