In case you missed it, the yearly run of PHP Advent for 2009 included an article by Sean Coates, an active contributor to the Phergie project. In this article, Sean describes his interesting use of Supervisord, a Python-based client/server system for monitoring *NIX processes, to run Phergie as a daemon. It’s a wonderful read if you’re looking for a way to run Phergie in the background without using screen.

Up until recently, the main web site for this project was constituted entirely by its Trac wiki on Assembla. Among other efforts going into the project’s next major version, it was decided that it should have a web site with a bit more substance.

This new site will be used to announce future releases and showcase new plugins and other related content contributed by the community. It will also house pages for user and developer documentation.

In addition to the web site, version control and issue tracking have been migrated from Subversion and Trac on Assembla to Git and Github Issues on Github. We’re hoping this will make contributing to the project even easier.

Note that not all plugins from the 1.x branch have been ported yet, only those essential for basic functionality. We hope that you’ll join us in the effort to complete this conversion by consulting the issue tracker to see what remains to be done, forking the new git repository, committing patches and additions, and submitting pull requests so we can import your work into the main repository.

We look forward to seeing what you do with Phergie 2.0!