Vote in the first PEAR election

As of February 22, 2007, I have called an official referendum on the future of PEAR.  There is a news item on the front page of pear.php.net with the same instructions in this message.  This election is only open to PEAR developers who have contributed to the development of a PEAR package at any time in history, but you must have the ability to log in at pear.php.net, and must have "pear.dev" karma.

Please go vote!

http://pear.php.net/election/info.php?election=6&vote=1

The choices are between:

1) don't change a thing

Keep the PEAR Group

2) Greg Beaver's constitution

As proposed on pear-dev

3) Anant Narayanan's constitution

As proposed in response to my original proposal on Dec. 30, 2006.

More information on each of these proposals is in the election description.

I have tried to present a clear picture of the differences between the proposals: each has merit, and should be considered carefully.  The result of this election will determine how PEAR moves forward on important issues such as the ultimate purpose of PEAR, how much control developers have versus the PEAR community at large, and other major issues such as granting CVS karma.

The ballot is secret, and is designed so that it is nearly impossible to reverse-engineer voters to votes in the database.  The election interface will not let you vote without logging in or without pear.dev karma.  If you believe you should have pear.dev karma to vote, and do not, please mail the pear-dev mailing list and we'll try to resolve the issue.

Go vote!