Going PEAR2!

Creating a PEAR2 package from a PEAR(1) package is easy and helpful for many people.

First, create a list of contributors to the PEAR package:

svn co https://svn.php.net/repository/pear/packages/PACKAGE_NAME/
cd PACKAGE_NAME/
svn log --quiet | grep '^r' | awk '{print $3}' | sort | uniq > committers.txt

You will need to complete the committers.txt next, which means hunting down their names and current email addresses by using master, github and google.

Then, run the following command to create a git repo from svn.php.net:

mkdir github/
cd github/
git svn clone -s https://svn.php.net/repository/pear/packages/PACKAGE_NAME/ \
--authors-file=./PATH/TO/committers.txt

Then finish off with:

cd PACKAGE_NAME/
git add remote ...
git push -u origin master