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The code should be moved to the pyrus organization, and a reference to http://pyr.us/ should be added.

Just opening this so I can assign my pull request to it.

There should be a kind of "stats' page showing the last index update date for a given or all channels.

The pyr.us web page should have a link to this github repository. Also, add a rel=vcs (http://joeyh.name/rfc/rel-vcs/) entry

 <link rel="vcs-git" href="git://github.com/pyrus/pearhunt" title="git repository" />

We need a script to add and update all the channels from http://pear.php.net/channels/

Perhaps there's some API we could use from pear.php.net to get that list?

Once you get too many channels, you're going to hit

Too many open files in pearhunt/scripts/rescanChannels.php on line 10

We need to move the logic for updating channels into methods so they can be re-used without including the file again. The logic should be inside some class files so we can start adding a web-interface to add channels or support ping-backs for updating channels remotely.

To make it easier to find a channel given its name, I think they should be listed in alphabetical order.
However, to put some emphasis on "well known channels" (pear.php.net, pear2.php.net), I'd also suggest separating channels into two groups (using the HTML <optgroup> tag):

• "Official/supported channels" (that's where pear.php.net belongs for example)
• "User contributed channels" (eg. for other PEAR channels)