Re: PEAR it's own GSoC project for 2009

On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 13:29 +0000, David Coallier wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I hope you are all doing well! After yesterday's announcement of our > participation in the GSoC 2009 with the PHP project, we decided to > take a dramatic turn and try and be a project on our own with Google > this year. > > We have been refused a few times in the past and this year we are > putting a strong and solid proposal in order to be accepted. The only > thing that is lacking right now is the amount of ideas. So we went > ahead and created: http://wiki.php.net/pear/gsoc/ and the page > http://wiki.php.net/pear/gsoc/2009 . > > If you have any ideas add them to those pages and NOT the PHP project > GSoC pages (http://wiki.php.net/gsoc/2009). > > We are hoping to be allowed more slots and thus getting more work done > on PEAR by moving it to it's own project. We have been self-sufficient > for many years now and I'm sure that with smart ideas we could be > accepted. > > So I'll say it again, if you have ideas, go and add them to the wiki > or submit them on the mailing list otherwise we will remain a > "subproject" of the PHP project and gain less slots and students to > work on PEAR/PEAR2. > > Thanks all and looking forward in seeing your ideas on the pages, Awesome, I've added my PEAR package proposal to the PEAR wiki page! Cheers, Mike