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Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2016 09:26:24 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Deprecate PEAR/PECL & Replace with
 composer/pickle
From: rowan.collins@gmail.com (Rowan Collins)

On 08/09/2016 09:05, Tony Marston wrote:
> I had to debug and fix every error myself, but now I have the PEAR web
> interface up and running.

Have you contributed these patches back to the community for others to 
benefit from? Perhaps you could adopt the maintainerless package yourself?

> There are huge numbers of developers out there who use PEAR

Then perhaps as well as taking on the maintainership of 
PEAR_Frontend_Web, you could reach out to some of these people and 
rekindle the PEAR community.

According to its constitution, it is run by an elected "PEAR Group" and 
"President". Since these are elected for fixed terms, the posts have 
apparently been vacant since Jun 15th, 2010. [http://pear.php.net/group/]

> (and by "you" I mean everyone who works on PHP internals)

Then that should not be "you", but "we" - take some responsibility, and 
talk about what you would like to offer the community, rather than what 
you demand of it.

Regards,
-- 
Rowan Collins
[IMSoP]