Heavy need for action at Pear::Date

I write here because I've got no responces at pear-general and in the bugtracker. The problem is that bugfixes for Date and Date_TimeZone apparently have been stalled for quite a while now, which leaves the packages more or less useless in php5: This is fatal as there is no other proper way of handling dates with timezones and dates before epoch in php. However, as the bug is caused by the parse-by-reference of function arguments of type "object", it should be easy to fix (both in Date and in Date_TimeZone). See further details here: http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=2217 If larger projects should be able to use pear::Date and pear::Date_TimeZone for php5 a new release containing a bugfix is needed very soon! How can such a release be brought forward? Thanks