Planting PEAR seeds - Register to vote in PEAR elections

Recently, I have been extremely active in helping to plan PEAR's future, and I have to say if you haven't noticed, things are hopping. Several significant contributions have also been made to the effort by established developers as well as several new developers who emerged from the woodwork. If you wish to see who is doing what, the pear-dev mailing list is a good place to start. I recently blogged[1] about a request I have for you, PEAR's users. Please register to vote in PEAR's general election mechanism, and you could help decide the future of PEAR. How, you might ask, do I register to vote? Simple. Go on over to http://pear.php.net/account-request-vote.php and fill out the simple form. It will email you with a confirmation link. Visit this website, and you will be able to log in to vote in elections. The first election will be to choose between several bug trackers, and I anticipate that the next will be to choose which of several possible directions PEAR could take is most important to you, so these are major decisions. If you use PHP, and want to see the standard package repository fit your needs, you will want to take a moment to register to vote. Registration is open all of the time, but you can only vote in active elections - once it's closed, you can't vote. Register to vote, and tell your friends and colleagues that if they want to see their PHP life get even easier to do the same and have a voice in PEAR's future. Feel free to use the blog post as a template for blog posts/mailing list emails/whatever. Thanks, Greg [1] http://greg.chiaraquartet.net/archives/155-Planting-PEAR-seeds-you-can-decide-PEARs-future.html