A few moments ago, I released Chiara_PEAR_Server 0.18.4. This release has a few internal code organizations and fixes one significant bug. The size of the "channel" field in several database tables was only 25 characters, and 100 in another. All have been stepped up to 255 to accomodate longer channel names.
This release is still alpha, as more work on the API needs to be done. It has been a while, as all 4 developers have been tied up by other things. However, the package is still alive and will be developed further until it is far friendlier and much nicer to work with on the backend as well.