Upon determining your code fits into PEAR, you should get
started with the PEAR community. In this chapter we will provide
several ways, in which you can establish a first contact with the
other PEAR developers, which will hopefully be your future open
source fellows. Additionally we will tell you the different places,
where you can find more information about the inner workings and
rules of PEAR.
Mailing lists naturally are the most important
way to communicate in projects like PEAR. We are running a number
of public mailing lists, which are listed on the PEAR website. For starters the
PEAR developers mailing list pear-dev@lists.php.net is
of major importance for you: This mailing list is the place where
the maintainers get together to discuss various aspects of their
packages and this list is also the place where new packages are
discussed.
If you would like to get started with maintaining packages in PEAR,
you are expected to be subscribed to this mailing list. (Subscription instructions)
Note:
During your first steps in the PEAR community, you may stumble
across the term "pear-dev", which is the abbreviation
for the developers mailing list in PEAR's lingo.
Some people enjoy communicating via IRC
channels. We are running the channel
#pear in the server network of EFnet. At this channel some of the most
active PEAR developers hang out regularly. However for serious
inquiries or discussions, you should mail to the developers mailing
list.
