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

OK I'm back on it! We've had an internal discussion and think, with you, that xml-rpc would be a better way of going about things. I made up (below) a rough list of the content we'd expect to see on there (with the jobseeking aspect of this kind of list very much in mind). Base info would be Name, PEAR packages and PEAR url; I have to admit that I've no clue yet how the rest of the information's going to get in there as it's obviously down to the individual developer, whether or not they want such information online at all and when they would like to update it. Either your database needs to be extended to accommodate this, or ours does. It probably makes more sense for it to be ours, leaving the xml-rpc feed consisting of the base information and the only issue the one of filtering out those who aren't involved in developing/maintaining any package whatsoever. Please feel free to argue with my list :) Name thumbnail pic Locale Occupation Availability Hobbies Spoken Languages Programming Languages Expertise Other Skills PEAR packages (lead/developer/helper) PEAR url - Steph > -----Original Message----- > From: Martin Jansen [mailto:mj@php.net] > Sent: 11 May 2004 21:40 > To: Steph > Cc: pear-webmaster@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [pear-webmaster] proposal: PEAR Who's Who on zend.com > > > On Tue May 11, 2004 at 05:1926PM +0100, Steph wrote: > > > > > On Tue May 11, 2004 at 02:1348PM +0100, 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? > > > > > > Sure -- this sort of information is stored in the backend of the PEAR > > > website and we might be able to expose it via an XML-RPC interface to > > > zend.com. > > > > That could work nicely.. do you have a way to filter non-contributors > > there? > > We need to come up with some custom Zend-only methods, which will be > capable of doing that. However, having an email-based system is fine > for me as well, eventhough it's not as nice as the XML-RPC interface. > > -- > - Martin Martin Jansen > http://martinjansen.com/