Plans for pear.php.net

Guys, whilst I've nearly finished setting up our bug reporting system on bugs.php.net, this is the list of stuff that I will integrate on pear.php.net in the future: * Package suggestion system (PSS): PSS will provide an easy way for programmers to announce their script to the PEAR developers: Instead of posting an announcement on pear-dev (like it happens today) the programmers will be able to fill out a form on pear.php.net, which will generate an email sent to pear-dev. People with a website account will then be able to vote for the package for n days. After n days, the package will be a) accepted, if there are more positive than negative votes and if there are at least 5 positive votes. b) rejected, if there are more negative votes than positive ones. c) postponed, if the positive votes are equal to the negative ones. In this case, the vote can be either restarted or one of the PEAR administrators has to give a final vote. Once the vote is closed, the result will be mailed to pear-dev and to the contributor and a new package will be created on pear.php.net, if the package has been accepted. The intention of PSS is to reduce the traffic on pear-dev and to provide an easy way for future contributors to add their stuff. * Developer page: Similar to account-info.php a page will be set up for each developer where he can see, which bugs have been filed for packages he is maintaining. For an example of this, see http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?package=php4. Both this tasks are things that I will realize in a medium- or longterm, as I will be pretty busy with university things in the next months. Comments are welcomed. - Martin