Hey Rowan,
On 08.09.26 06:17, Rowan Tommins [IMSoP] wrote:
That's great that someone finally got in touch. Does he have access to
provide a database dump, so we can fill in the missing bug data?
That was brought up. Unfortunately, the user accounts are gone. Hence,
the bug data cannot be provided.
This is great, because A) everyone involved agrees on the goal and B)
this makes the vote a formality.
Unless you know something I don't, Chuck's agreement is just one vote,
not any kind of final authority. He is listed at
https://pear.php.net/group/ as one of eight members of "the PEAR
Group", so in theory the other seven could decide they want to
continue the project. In fact, the Group was supposed to be re-elected
annually, so even their collective authority is shaky if anyone really
wanted to replace them.
Chuck is the one who had the authority to archive the repos in the PEAR
GitHub organisation.
Also, allow me to highlight the "Non-goals" section of the RFC:
> The goal is not to take over the governance of the independent PEAR
package ecosystem. *If an independent PEAR team wants to continue PEAR
as an active project, they remain free to do so under domains they control.*
In practice, he's the only person involved who anyone has managed to
track down, and even that took several months, so I think we're safe
to say nobody's that interested.
That too, yes.
In other news, I noticed the mirror you created didn't yet have much
styling, so I've put together a quick PR copying in the colours and
basic styles from the existing site, plus an idea I had for a "locked
PEAR" logo: https://github.com/NickSdot/pear/pull/1
Thanks, Rowan! I am fine with that. One thing I'd add: I think having
the "locked PEAR" is nice. Not sure about the favicon change. It's will
be a The PHP Group hosted archive, not the successor of the PEAR
project. Keeping the PHP favicon feels more sound to me, personally. But
I happily leave that decision to you and others (infra team?).
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Cheers
Nick
