Re: pear.php.net look and feel

On Mar 18, 2010, at 10:24 AM, Matthew Fonda 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. I'm not sure about this (or anything that came about in this thread) but do think fixing the front page should be done soon. Shortening the advisory item on the front page, and having the bulk of it in the extended ("Read more") area seems like something that can be done today. Regards, Philip