This chapter describes, how you can get support, if you have
questions concerning PEAR.
As in most other open-source projects, the support is done via
mailing lists. In our case, we currently have seven PEAR related
mailing lists:
The first four lists are intended to help you, if you have
questions. Please read below to get to know, what list
fits to your needs. The CVS commit list is intended for people
that are contributing to PEAR: All commits to our revision
control system (CVS) are sent to this list. The core and QA lists
are intended for people that want to take part in the development
of PEAR.
You can subscribe to the PEAR mailing lists via
this website.
The PEAR general
mailing list is the mailing list, where you ask, if you
have a question about installing PEAR, using a certain PEAR
package etc.
The list is not a support forum for questions concerning the usage
of PHP. Please use
php-general@lists.php.net instead.
As the name implies, this list is where the developers of PEAR
come together to make decisions, to discuss code and to handle
things that are related to PEAR.
If you are not a developer of PEAR itself, this list is of no real
interest to you, unless
you want to get to know what's going on behind PEAR
you want to contribute code to PEAR
you have found a bug in a PEAR package and want to supply a
patch for that.
The address for this list is
pear-dev@lists.php.net.
This list is the
place where all the things concerning the PEAR documentation,
the manual etc. are discussed.
If you want to help out documenting PEAR packages don't hesitate
to drop a mail there.
People interested in improving the overall quality of PEAR
come together on the QA list.
The Quality Assurance team is always seeking people that want to
help. If you are interested, just
sign up and announce
yourself on the mailing list.
This list is the
place, where the core infrastructure of PEAR is discussed. Members
of this list also come from other PHP projects such as PECL and PHP
QA, since the PEAR infrastructure is also relevant to these
projects (like the PEAR installer, the PEAR website etc.).
Specifically the list is concerned with the following topics:
New features for the PEAR website
PEAR installer development
PEAR standards definition
