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

<snip /> > > 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... > > That's were the maintains table comes in :) I my self made a little bug > stats for pear (yet to public) and there you can find bugs in all pages > where X developer is in maintain of some sort (lead, developer, helper, > contribuer etc.) so really in stead of getting all the users .... I get > the users that have their ID in the maintain table :) That'll be the place for us to look then.. > Not sure with that all php.net account == pear account but indeed seems > so :) > > The cron job stuff can infact be done (I myself can even do that if I > get the info what you need, but well martin will have to add the cron > stuff but I can code the php part, shouldn't be a problem.) > But would email be the way to go ? Not so sure about that one :) Unless > you people at zend want to go through ~100 users per email :) I'd run it through diff -u against the previous week. > well you could of cause make some parser for that job, any way that is > in you best needs really, we can probly make something that you can use > to make Who's Who page :) All suggestions/help would definitely be appreciated in setting this up, thanks! > > Maybe would be a good idea to list up all the needed info and etc., and > we can see what we can do about that :) OK let me go away and think about that, again I'll put it to this list and you can all shout me down/give better ideas/agree over it. Thanks Helgi! - Steph > > -- > Regards > > Helgi >