pear:group:meetingagenda:20090906

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PEAR Group Meeting 6th September 2009

Apologies: doconnor is on holiday

  1. PEAR test server - discussion, look at its role in the future of PEAR (doconnor, cweiske)
  2. Set goals for group for 2009 to 2010 (short, middle and long term)
  3. Till requested we discuss whether package tests can use fakemail
  • Action Items from last meeting
    • New group members will catch up on content of RFC's before next meeting and will be ready to discuss or present changes.
    • Group will vote on PEAR2 policy and standards RFC's at beginning of next meeting.
    • Other RFC's will be discussed in detail during next meeting.

Goals for This Year

  • Short term
  • Mid term
    • stable PEAR2/Pyrus release
    • attracting new developers to PEAR2
  • Long term
    • get active maintainers of quality PEAR1 packages to port them to PEAR2

Minutes

Unresolved Issues from Last Year

  • Three outstanding RFC's are awaiting Group voting

Testing and Continuous Integration Server

  • agenda item was mostly skipped as Christian and Daniel are not present
  • QA needs to be emphasized for PEAR
  • phpUnderControl is planned for sg1 for testing with multiple PHP versions

Attracting New Developers

  • Community outreach via blogs, social networks, etc was suggested
    • PEAR needs mention on Facebook, Twitter, etc.
    • Group members' blogs should be on Planet PHP
    • Group members should post PEAR-related posts to the shared PEAR blog.
      • this will include meeting minutes, vote outcomes, security notices, etc.
  • The website was mentioned as a place where PEAR could improve its appearance to attract new developers. It was suggested that the website should include tutorials and screen-casts for new developers.
  • The members of the PEAR group should all use Pyrus and promote

its use to other developers.

  • High-quality packages with active developers will encourage other developers to use and contribute to PEAR.
  • Being friendly, timely and helpful to new developers will help retain and attract new developers. Recent technical issues caused some slow turn-around recently, but these issues have since been fixed.
    • Being quick to respond to new accounts and karma requests is important.
  • IRC support is being handled pretty well.
  • Action items
    • Bill will look into wrangling control of the pear and pear2 Twitter accounts.
    • Bill will set up a Twitter account for pearphp
    • Bill will ask if Digg has any design resources to give for the PEAR Website.
    • David will make sure Group will be given accounts on the PEAR blog
    • Group members will start using Pyrus and tell their developer friends how cool it is.

PEAR2

  • Brett and Greg (cellog) are the only two developers working on PEAR2--they may need some help.
    • website needs assistance in terms of development and design
  • PEAR2 cannot launch until at least PHP 5.3.1, but the website and bug-tracking infrastructure likely won't be ready by then anyway.
  • Marketing
    • Teaser posts on Pyrus features will increase interest in PEAR2.
    • Major marketing will be withheld until the stable launch of Pyrus.
  • Bug Manager
    • a functioning bug tracker is needed before PEAR2 can launch
    • some PHP internals developers want a global bug tracker for all PHP projects
    • PEAR2 developers want to build a stand-alone bug tracking package that could be used for PEAR2 and for other projects. (Bug Manager)
    • either of these goals will take some time
  • Action items
    • Bill will look into assisting Greg with the Bug Manager package
    • Christian will work on getting pearweb running on PHP 5.3.x to test the Bug Manager package with real-world data.

Next Meeting

  • 2009-09-06 at 14:00 UTC
  • Action items
    • Brett will post to pear-group with a potential new time. Possibly 2-3 hours earlier as Bill doesn't mind early mornings and Daniel is 16.5 hours away.
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