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I was lucky enough to hit the Atlanta stop of the 2009 CodeWorks conference tour earlier this week. It was great seeing faces I'd not seen since php|works nearly a year ago, and I greatly enjoyed the sessions I was able to attend.
2008 Elections are now over, you can view the offical results on the PEAR website.
The new PEAR group is:
elections are now over and a new PEAR Group has been formed. Just like last year and always following the Constitution, the new members have been elected by a secret ballot of PEAR Developers. They have chosen:
The minutes from the July 13th, 2008 PEAR Group meeting have been posted to the PEAR wiki.
Some highlights from the meeting include new/upcoming RFCs for package naming schemes, exception handling in PHP 5.3, and a vote on extending the current PEAR2 Policies. Heavy stuff, check it out!
http://wiki.pear.php.net/index.php/MeetingMinutes20080713
-Brett
Thanks to the efforts of Daniel O’Connor, the PEAR website is getting nicer and better. Bug RSS feeds support Baetle now, the PEAR proposal system – PEPr – works again and many small improvements and fixes found their way on the site.
Some users have reported that the windows builds of PHP 5.3 are not able to open the shipped go-pear.phar file.
As a workaround, users can run the distributed phar with php -d phar.require_hash=0 go-pear.phar or download and use the http://pear.php.net/go-pear non-pharred version.
Now that pear2 is in svn.php.net, it is possible to do commits with
multiple packages using a feature of subversion called “sparse checkouts.”
Rasmus wrote about this for setting up php checkouts here:
http://news.php.net/php.internals/44993
As every year, the elections for the PEAR Group and PEAR President are happening. This year due to a few factors and messages lost in translation, we decided to extend the elections period by 10 days so more people would have time to vote!
So remember to cast your vote at http://pear.php.net/election/ and you have until the the 5th of August 2009.
There are many new candidates for the Group and I think you should go and check them out!
I am more than glad to announce the arrival, the announcement of the new PEAR Group for 2009 and 2010.
With a few fresh faces in the Group, this year looks very promising with the mix of both new blood and experienced PEAR Group members.
Congratulations to the elected 7s (In no particular order):
I can’t wait to have our first meeting and get the year kicking!
Thanks to everyone who voted!
Some PEAR installations on PHP 5.2.9 and 5.2.10 seem to be corrupted. When trying to install something, you will get the error:
pear.php.net is using a unsupported protocal – This should never happen. install failed
This problem comes from corrupted channel files. Go into your PEAR php directory and backup .channels directory:
cd `pear config-get php_dir`
mv .channels .channels-broken
pear update-channels