A short while ago, someone popped into the PEAR irc channel on efnet and asked about installing Statusnet – which is a “open source micro messaging platform that helps you share and connect in real-time within your own domain.” It’s what powers identi….

It’s really just a matter of updating the XML, including updating the version number of the meta-package, validating it with:

$pear package-validate statusnet_pear.xml

and then creating the .tgz with:

$pear package statusnet_pear.xml

More info on how to do this type of thing is at http://pear.php.net/manual/en/guide.developers.package2.dependencies.php – feel free to drop me, or the pear developers list ( pear-dev@lists.php.net ) a question if you feel the need too.

That’s great news! What can we do to help keep this metapackage maintained?

-Evan