I can't imagine it.
He was the first (and the last) leader (hey, please dont start FUDs here in my blog comments, he was the PEAR leader imo) which puts so much effort to help the new developers or users and keep working in other parts of the project, He's the meaning of PEAR in my mind because he introduced me with PEAR world and now he's leaving, and will leave us alone here with a lot of FUDs from the men that don't know differences between PEAR as a Package and all of PEAR as a Group.
Thanks for your comments in my english blog
I wish you the best