Re: pear.php.net look and feel

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Matthew Fonda <matthewfonda@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Philip, > > I completely agree with you here. I think a more important question to ask > is, is PEAR dead? Okay, clearly it isn't, but the usage of PEAR seems to > have been seeing a steady decline over the past several years, but I think > PEAR2 can come to the rescue. PEAR2 is quite the amazing project, and really > does solve a lot of the shortcomings of PEAR1, but it seems to only be > getting love from several people, and is not seeing much testing or > development from the community as a whole. I think more efforts should be > taken to raise awareness of PEAR2 and help promote it, and I think > pear.php.net would be a good place to start. I remember when I first started > using PEAR, it was very popular, with a lot of people blogging about it, > showcasing its abilities, and promoting it, and now it just doesn't seem to > have that same steam anymore. Many thanks to those working on PEAR2, and I > look forward to seeing it revitalize the PEAR project. > > Best regards, > --Matthew PEAR2 needs evangelism. That's been one of the main issues right from the start. I personally see one of the issues for adoption is the relatively slow pace at which distributions update their PHP. It'll be a few years from now that people will have 5.3 in most of them. That's a huge drawback -- e.g. on RoundCube we were leveled for requiring 5.2 even though that has been around a good, good while. I'm working on a plugin repo for RoundCube currently and I can't build it on pyrus because no one would use it then. Maybe not no one, but not the majority of people. In general, PEAR lacks some community support. We (Christian and myself) worked on the planet code a while back and set up a site on http://planet-pear.org. If anyone wants to be aggregated, please let me know so we add your blog's tag/category-based PEAR feed there. We haven't really advertised it a lot, but traffic is growing slowly, but surely. :) I was hoping for more posts (by different people), etc., before we make a formal announcement. ;-) Till > > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Philip Olson <philip@roshambo.org> wrote: > >> Hello everyone, >> >> Has there been discussion about what to do with the pear.php.net front >> page? The current look makes me feel PEAR is dead because the 'hottest news' >> is some old advisory, and said advisory takes up the entire page. And it's >> near impossible to decipher an advisory section from a news headline. >> Thoughts? >> >> Regards, >> Philip >> >