Re: pear.php.net look and feel

On 19 Mar 2010, at 17:40, Philip Olson wrote: > > 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. I will look into allocating time this weekend to tidy things up - I discussed a few things with a couple of people yesterday that were around #pear on efnet and I have a fair idea of what I want to do to make it more ... appealing / useful - Now to hope I have some time / motivation over the course of the weekend ;-) - Helgi