The minutes from the July 13th, 2008 PEAR Group meeting have been posted to the PEAR wiki.
Some highlights from the meeting include new/upcoming RFCs for package naming schemes, exception handling in PHP 5.3, and a vote on extending the current PEAR2 Policies. Heavy stuff, check it out!
http://wiki.pear.php.net/index.php/MeetingMinutes20080713
-Brett