As is mentioned on the PEAR blog today, there's some new advancements that are being made to make submitting proposals simpler.

Thanks to the efforts of Daniel O'Connor, the PEAR website is getting nicer and better. Bug RSS feeds support Baetle now, the PEAR proposal system - PEPr - works again and many small improvements and fixes found their way on the site.

Baetle is a "bug and enhancement tracking language" project that describes the information in things like the BugZilla and Jira tracking applications.