Re: about the pear group and the president

Ohh I thoutht it did, been so long since we saw a release of
it that I had
forgotten ;) *hint hint*

On 5/10/07, Steph <otherbirdgmail.com> wrote:
>
> ooh helgi, it NEVER included internals!!! We've had
internals
> 'weeklies' running since before PEAR was even born!!! 
It did have
> PECL release coverage though.
>
> It died after 12 issues on zend.com because Jan - and
then I - simply
> didn't have time to wade through 500+ emails every week
trying to
> figure out what might be important some time in the
future. I'd
> heartily recommend that you automate as much as you
possibly can and
> allow a group of people access to throw comment into
the mix on an
> ad-hoc basis.


Yeah that'd probably be the way to go.

- Helgi

On 5/9/07, Helgi Žormar <helgithgmail.com> wrote:
> > Yeah I remember those, the zend ones were more
general tho, including
> pecl
> > and php internals and such.
> >
> > Would be nifty to have something like that back
... at least for pear, a
> bit
> > more details I suppose
> >
> > - Helgi
> >
> > On 5/9/07, Jesus M. Castagnetto
<jcastagnettoyahoo.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Just a bit of history
> > >
> > > --- Helgi Žormar <helgithgmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On 5/8/07, till <klimponggmail.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > On 5/8/07, Helgi Žormar
<helgithgmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > Yeah I agree, we'd rather want
a dedicated set of people doing
> this,
> > > > > kinda
> > > > > > in the direction of
www.fedoranews.org or similar 
> > > > >
> > > > > Maybe "Planet PEAR"?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Nahh that suggest something in the
direction of a feed planet, i.e.
> > > > planet-php
> > > >
> > > > The idea would be more that it would be
done by many contributers
> > > (freely
> > > > editable ?)  and perhaps have some
"head" persons to make sure the
> > > content
> > > > is okey and looks  decent (f.ex. style
wise) and make it weekly,
> > > bi-weekly
> > > > or monthly, kinda even in the format
like fedoranews has (the layout
> is
> > > new
> > > > but it seems to work well)
> > >
> > > At some point in the distant past  we had the
"PEAR Weekly News" in
> > > several
> > > languages even.
> > >
> > > There was some kludgy code for that somewhere
on the pearweb CVS IIRC
> [1],
> > > so
> > > you can do something along those lines but
better than what we did
> back
> > > then.
> > > At some point I think that even the Zend guys
picked that up and kept
> it
> > > going
> > > for some time, reporting the latest releases
from PEAR, but that is
> also
> > > history now (I think).
> > >
> > > Cheers.
> > >
> > > [1] htt
p://cvs.php.net/viewvc.cgi/pearweb/weeklynews/
> > >
> > > --
> > > Jesus M. Castagnetto (jcastagnettoyahoo.com)
> > > Web site: http://www.castagnetto.or
g/
> > > Research: http://metallo.scripps.ed
u/
> > > PEAR stuff: http://pear.ph
p.net/user/jmcastagnetto
> > >
> > >
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