PHP Magazine has posted this new article from Lukas Smith today with a "State of the PEAR Address", an overview of where PEAR stands in the PHP community today.

For those of you who have been living under a rock the last few years, you may have managed to evade PEAR. However, avid readers of the International PHP Magazine will know PEAR quite well, so here is a quick run down.

He goes through a look at what PEAR is, the debates over its structure, monitoring for "high-quality non-redundant code", what checks and balances are in place, the myth of bloated PEAR code, how you can contribute, and a call to action for all developers out there to get involved. There's a lot more in there than that, but you'll have to check out the whole article for that...