Re: pear.php.net look and feel

On Mar 19, 2010, at 1:28 PM, Helgi Þormar Þorbjörnsson wrote: > 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 ;-) I'm afraid this thread grew beyond the original problem. Simply cleaning up the current pear.php.net content (not design) would be a big improvement and require little work. Don't worry however, this will be the last time I complain and bring up this particular issue. :) Regards, Philip