FW: [pear-webmaster] proposal: PEAR Who's Who on zend.com

oops, missed the list - re-sending, sorry. Hi Helgi, Thanks for the quick response :) I agree that direct access to the database is a bad idea 'even for Zend', but would it be possible to set up (for example) a cron job that sends out a weekly email giving the information we need here? The secondary problem is that if we use the information from the user database without having any indication of activity we'll get people like myself on there - it seems that everyone with a php.net account was given a PEAR account regardless of whether they were involved in making PEAR contributions... - Steph > -----Original Message----- > From: Helgi Þormar [mailto:helgi@trance.is] > Sent: 11 May 2004 14:37 > To: steph@zend.com; pear-webmaster@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [pear-webmaster] proposal: PEAR Who's Who on zend.com > > > On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 13:13, Steph wrote: > > The biggest problem we faced with the original Who's Who was - > and ever will > > be - keeping it updated to reflect current reality, rather than > reflecting > > the state of affairs at the point of going live for all > eternity. Assuming > > nobody's actually against the idea in the first place, can I ask whether > > there's a database somewhere of current project leaders and > developers that > > we could possibly take that information from somehow? > > > > Hi Steph, > there is a database yes, which you can get data like this > http://pear.php.net/user/dufuz (mine user for example.) > This would really need to access 2 tables ... the user table and then > the maintains table (to get the people who maintain something ;)) > > But giving someone access to the user table would be to dangers (even > Zend in my opinion), because of the passwords. > > But you could get info about users through RPC, shouldn't be a issue I > think. > But Martin or Pierre know better about this issue I think. > -- > Regards > > Helgi >