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

Hi Steph! You wrote: > Hi Toby :) >> The basic info can be replaced directly from PEAR through RPC. > That was the easy part already described ;) >> For the rest >> you can offer a simple editing form, which (if we implement this, what I >> hope) can be authenticated against the PEARWeb SSO mechanism. > Am I understanding you correctly here? You're suggesting we could use PEAR > auth to allow access to a form that we could then use to update our PEAR > people db at Zend? Is that a practical suggestion, anyone? (Martin?) Currently it is possible through some kind of "dirty hack". I suggested to offer that possibility in a clean way to selected sites (on IP basis) to enable PEAR related sites to let PEAR users authenticate. Maybe that's feasible for the Zend page. (Martin, you see, there's use for it! ;) >> > Please feel free to argue with my list :) >> > Name >> > Thumbnail pic >> > Locale >> Birthdate > Mmkay... I think these are all fields that will be blank unless the owner > chooses to fill them in, so okay.. :) >> > Occupation >> > Availability >> > Hobbies >> > Spoken Languages >> > Programming Languages >> --> Skill rate for languages (1-5 or so, slightly experienced - profi) > Complicated (how does anyone rate themselves?) Why not? I can tell you I can do Java, VBasic, Pascal, C++, PHP, ... but how do you know, what my real skill is? If you just offer to note langs or to rate them in a self-evaluation, both can only be verified by talking to a person... But maybe someone can get a glimpse more info, if I tell him, that I did Pascal once in school and I'm doing PHPÜ activly for more than 4 years. > <snip /> >> Other PEAR activities (Website, Documentation, Installer, QA,...) > Oh heck, wait, you're saying this information isn't anywhere else? That's > going to make filtering problematic.. Why? True, on the package website of PEAR you can only see once packages. (http://pear.php.net/user/toby) Everything else can only be added in self described texts. >> Job experinces? (Projects, ...) > We're getting into CV territory here.. remember there are about 200 people > involved (I'd expect around that number), excessive info could bring > problems of its own, on a lot of levels. True, was just a thought. >> Other open source projects? > Now that's a good thought! Homepage, true. >> Homepage URL >> Blog URL > These items are already on the PEAR user page, correct me if I'm wrong? Homepage, true, but nothing else... :) Since blogging is "cool" these times and IMHO really usefull, that would be a nice feature, too. >> --> Maybe even aggregate the blogs? > Definitely worth thinking about for a future project.. not sure I'm ready to > deal with it right now. Else, just link http://www.planet-php.net ! :) >> Just some thoughts, maybe you find them useful! > Thanks for the response! Any time again! :) -- Tobias Schlitt a passion for php http://www.schlitt.info