Re: about the pear group and the president

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/
>
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