candidates for PEAR Group: why should we vote for you? Tell us your plans and your history

Hi, As we near the next election for PEAR Group and President, I'd like to ask all of the candidates to provide us with a brief history of their contributions to PEAR, and why we should vote for you. This year, the content of what has happened is more important than in previous years because Pyrus and PEAR2 will be happening as a reality in the next couple of weeks. In addition, I feel it is only appropriate that the existing PEAR Group members and PEAR president who are running for re-election provide a more thorough accounting of what they have been doing in the past year. The existing PEAR Group has been unable to formulate a complete coding standard for PEAR2 (the first draft was approved and put in the manual on Dec. 24, 2007, and expired on March 1, 2008, and was never renewed). In fact, a small subset of developers from the PEAR Group have taken the step of discussing standards with outside projects and representing PEAR as a project without first announcing what the new coding standards would look like to pear-dev, or putting anything in the manual. If my wording sounds harsh, it is intended to be so only as a call to action and accountability for our elected leaders. We, the developer who will actually have to use these standards have at the very least a passing interest in what they will be before they are set in stone. The mailing list at http://news.php.net/php.standards catalogs some of the back-and-forth regarding the standards, and actually contains a document with the standards as initially proposed by Travis at the informal php|tek meeting, and originally proposed as a PEAR Group RFC on the public wiki at http://wiki.php.net/pear/rfc/pear2_naming_standards (back when the namespace separator was ::). A special thanks to our elected leaders for your service is due, it can be hard work running PEAR, and as the former president I appreciate the effort and sacrifices it takes to do a good job. All I ask is that each current candidate give us a description of where you stand on issues that are important to PEAR developers such as the new proposed coding standard, how PEAR2 should move forward, and related issues. Thanks, Greg