There and Back Again

If your a WebThumb user and would like to help beta test the new server please let me know.

The new server offers higher capacity and shouldn’t require any changes to your apps, but download urls have changed so i’d like to do some testing to verify that before I do the switch over.

Send me an email if you’d like to get involved.

Tuesday I did a presentation about PEAR at my local PHP user group. Those slides are now available.

I’m hoping to improve the slides a bit and give this presentation at lots of other places. If any PHP User groups on the west coast would like me to do a presentation about PEAR drop my a line.

If you’d like to give a presentation about PEAR at your local user group also let me know and I’ll give you a tarball of the slides, you just have to agree to give me back your updates :-).

I’d like to thank everyone who left a comment on my last post about How you would improve PEAR. You’ll be happy to know that were already working on many of your suggestions, Greg’s post on the subject has some more details. I’ll be sharing everyones comments with the rest of the PEAR group at our meeting on the 13th, so if anyone has a suggestion they haven’t submitted yet thats your deadline.

Out of all the suggestions the one I’m most excited about is starting a mentoring program to help developers get involved with PEAR. This is someone we were already planning on doing so now its just a matter of getting the details taken care of. I’m not sure if will end up with an official sign up for a mentor or some other process but until then, if your interested in getting started as a PEAR developer and want a mentor send me an email and i’ll find a mentor for you.

Also if anyone left a comment and it didn’t show up it got caught in my spam filters. I get about 500 blog spams a day so I can’t easily check the filter for false positives. If you think this happened to you shoot me an email and post again and i’ll make sure it goes through.

You might have heard that I’m a member of the PEAR group now. Because of this I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about what I’d like to see changed in PEAR to make it a better project. I’m slowly building up a list of ideas and at some point I’ll share it, but today I’d like to get some feedback from everyone who reads this blog.

If you were a member of the PEAR group what would you change about PEAR. Please keep in mind were not an all powerful body (Read the constitution for details), but we do have the ability to set policy, and like in any open source project we can make changes through our direct actions.

Thanks in advance for your comments.