June 3rd PEAR Group Meeting Minutes

These are the minutes from the June 3rd PEAR Group meeting, if you have any questions feel free to send us an email (pear-group at php.net). thanks -josh --- June 3rd Pear Group Meeting 7PM UTC to 8:45 UTC Meeting took place over IRC Attending Arnaud Limbourg (arnaud) Christian Weiske (cweiske) David Coallier (davidc) Helgi Þormar (helgi) Joshua Eichorn (jeichorn) Martin Jansen (mj) Paul M Jones (pmjones) PEAR President - Greg Beaver (cellog) Review Action Items http://wiki.pear.php.net/index.php/TaskList Schedule Next Meeting June 24th same time Action Items: davidc - Send out email with new meeting time jeichorn - Update pear clock and make agenda page Vote for Vice President: jeichorn Vice President vote carries by unanimous acclaim Proposed amendment to the constitution: Updated language, still some other cases we need to cover presidential tie, presidential less then 50%, pear group runoff tie action Items: arnaud: collect updated text email for review Collectives: http://wiki.pear.php.net/index.php/PossibleCollectives Action Items: mj: figure out # of active devs in collectives mj: lead email discussion to finish up list RFC: good review of the wiki page by the group http://wiki.pear.php.net/index.php/RFC_Policy action items: davidc: clean up wiki, once language is set make plain text version and run vote Reviewing current feedback: The group has read the feedback from my blog action items: jeichorn: create a response blog post for the pear group Dealing with unmaintained/deprecated/dead packages Pepr proposals cleared automatically after 2 months of no activity action items: mj - Open feature request for cleaning out inactive pepr proposals arnaud - Open feature request for making unmaintained packages more visible Coding stand issue: Update the coding standard to class newline then brace class\n{ Voting results pmjones: +1 cweiske: +1 mj: +1 jeichorn: +1 helgi: +1 arnaud: +1 davidc: +1 Change accepted action items: jeichorn - update manual with new language PEAR2 Discussion: New name for updated installer, pyrus is the working name Targets php5 > Processing at packaging time nt installation phar friendly Pyrus packages as a phar, no installtion needed BC Break Packages created with Pyrus wont work with 1.x installer New PEAR Channel to distribute these (PHP5+) packages A new channel gives us an opportunity to reinvent ourselves Channel and Installer should have different names New Channel needs some sort of new name New Channel will move forward with svn action items: helgi - lead email discussion on a name for the new channel Creation of working groups to move projects forward action items: cellog, jeichorn - make some announcements that we're looking for help in some of these areas