On 18.06.26 20:38, Rowan Tommins [IMSoP] wrote:
On 18 June 2026 12:50:04 BST, Derick Rethans <[email protected]> wrote:
I think that's good, but I still can't do that. Unless we scrape the existing
site. (doable, but naughty).
Yes, obviously better to do something based on the underlying data, but based
on engagement up to now, I'm not optimistic about anyone providing that.
Large parts of the site are broken already, and some parts like proposals
wouldn't be worth preserving in a read-only version.
So if we can't get access the priorities would presumably be:
- scraping the package list, including download links
- reconstructing the install channel, if we want the CLI client to keep
working; this is probably the fiddliest part
- scraping the Documentation section
- maybe cloning the bug database, although like the rest of the project it's
barely been touched in at least 5 years, so not sure how useful it is to anyone
The alternative, as far as I can see, is just to take the whole thing offline.
Leaving it up indefinitely in the vague hope that someone will step out of the
shadows would mean accumulating spam and who knows what else on a php.net
domain.
Rowan Tommins
[IMSoP]
To my surprise the PEAR organisation on GitHub has activity.
I found the email addresses of Daniel and Chuck (both also listed on the
PEAR website), who recently merged PRs, and I mailed them.
Let's see if we can get an answer.
Cheers
Nick
