(Note: this page is a work in progress.)
The Debian PHP Group maintain the PHP interpreters, PEAR and PECL modules, There are actually several different PHP teams in Debian that share some infrastructure and have common members:
- the pkg-php-maint team, which maintains PHP interpreter
- the pkg-php-pear team, which maintains PEAR and Composer modules
- the pkg-php-pecl team, which maintains PECL modules
Infrastructure
Website: http://php.debian.net/
Debian salsa team page with Git repositories: https://salsa.debian.org/php-team
IRC: OFTC #debian-php
Unix group: pkg-php
pkg-php-maint team (PHP interpreter itself)
Mailing List: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-php-maint
Packages: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=pkg-php-maint@lists.alioth.debian.org
pkg-php-pear team (PEAR and Composer)
Mailing List: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-php-pear
Packages: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=pkg-php-pear@lists.alioth.debian.org
[WIP] Policy: https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianPHPGroup/Composer
pkg-php-pecl team (PECL modules)
Mailing List: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-php-pecl
Packages: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=pkg-php-pecl@lists.alioth.debian.org
Useful links
pkg-php-tools was introduced in Debian wheezy. It considerably eases the building of PEAR packages.