Lead PHP Developer Quits

Jasper Bryant-Greene writes "Jani Taskinen, one of the lead developers of the Zend Engine (the engine that powers PHP), as well as a lead developer for the thread safety system and other core components of the PHP project, has quit in a relatively cryptic message to the php-internals mailing list. Jani has been involved with PHP for about 6 years and his loss will undoubtedly be a big blow for the PHP project."

Comments

6 years is long enough

[Anonymous Coward]

I never spent 6 years with the same people, job, hobby, women, whatever...

Re:6 years is long enough

[SamTheButcher]

You say that, yet you're *still* living in your parent's basement....

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Threads?.. bah!

[Tei]

You only need threadsafe PHP (gettext, gd, etc) if your webpage has more than 1 concurrent user.
Only pages with more than 1 visitor need to ca.. OOPS!

Re:Threads?.. bah!

[cuerty]

What if you are not coding a Website? PHP isn't just for Websites, you can make desktop apps using PHP-GTK or any other programs. I've even had a daemon running in PHP. It's not just matter of Web sites.

Shock!

[bobintetley]

Oh my god! He used the phrase "could not care less" correctly! Obviously not an American ;-)

Re:Shock!

[nogginthenog]

He's finish(ed) :-)

Re:Shock!

[Eunuchswear]

In Armor vs Armour it depends who gets to shoot first.

At shorter ranges the M1A1's APFSDS zips right through the Challenger II, but the Challenger II can hit the Abrahams at longer ranges with its HESH, probably not killing the crew, but a mobility kill is good enough.

Ok?

Re:Shock!

[jez9999]

I have never seen the intelligent response you gave, but instead "I don't care. You know what meant"

At this point, thrust your groin toward them vigourously several times, wave your hands about like a snake and make a donkey sound. Then say, "And you know full well what THAT meant."

Re:Shock!

[Mr. Underbridge]

It's nice of you to assume that the people saying "could care less" are trying to be sarcastic, but the overwhelming evidence is that they are simply stupid and ignorant.

I love the smell of blanket statements in the morning. Smells like....ignorance.

Re:Shock!

[schon]

Sarchasm: This weather is far worse than Hurrican Katrina

Actually, sarchasm is the gulf in understanding between someone who makes a sarcastic statement, and someone who doesn't get sarcasm.

Sarcasm: "This weather is worse than Hurricane Katrina!"
Sarchasm: "What are you talking about? Hurricane Katrina was a major disaster, this is only a heavy rainstorm."

Re:Shock!

[mrogers]

Both your examples demonstrate sarcasm, not irony. Irony is when the person responsible for the threading engine of a server-side scripting language resigns, and nobody can read his resignation letter because the server is overloaded.

What are his reasons?

[slimjim8094]

I agree that there seems to be some "personal conflict". The people who matter...and I could care less...delete my CVS...no use for it anymore...do not reply to this email...

Wow, is PHP really that hard to work on? Is he being threatened at gunpoint?? Seriously, why the sour grapes? Is this a hoax? Was his account hacked?
This is not a funny post. This is trying to be serious. What's going on with this guy? If he's just done and finished working on it, he could quit w/o the bitterness. Was he feeling squashed/trodden upon?
If PHP itself (no other factors) could do this to a guy, how much does it encourage other people to develop it?

Thank you Deanna F'n Troi

[Anonymous Coward]

Now get back in the holodeck and strip.

Cryptic?

[Rob T Firefly]

From reading the mirrored post above it just seems terse and upset, but not really cryptic. Cryptic is stuff like "beware of the dwarf" and "under a big 'W.'"

Re:Cryptic?

[slide-rule]

Cryptic is stuff like "beware of the dwarf" and "under a big 'W.'"

That isn't cryptic either... and stop calling Dubya a dwarf! ;-)

Changing Projects

[tgpo]

He's going to work with Adobe to rework ASP. They feel he can bring a certain *cough* level of new ideas *cough* to the project.

Re:Judging him harshly?

[linvir]

Welcome to the internet. You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used as evidence against you in a character assassination on Slashdot.

Re:Looks like...

[Anonymous Coward]

No no, that is not possible. He is a PHP developer, he can't possibly be lacking in security awareness!

Re:Hmmmmm

[Anonymous Coward]

Its just constant nagging for new features or bug fixes
...
Personally I'd like to see thread safe php so I could play with some of the apache mpms

Re:Looks like a stomp and a doorslam.

[Anonymous Coward]

Unless you're some kind of Zen master you're going to run into this sooner or later.

Well, he is apparently a Zend master!!

Re:From IRC, the reason:

[GalacticCmdr]

what benefits an israeli company benefits israeli economy, which benefits israel's terrorist regime. Jani is completely right to boycott a terrorist regime. it's a very rational decision when no government seems to care about israeli terrorism.

Okay.....and I suppose you believe the internets is a series of tubes.

Re:Jani Taskinen who?

[kawika]

Wow, quite a resume there. He will be difficult to replace. For that matter, he will be difficult to ereg_replace, eregi_replace, mb_ereg_replace, mb_eregi_replace, preg_replace, str_replace, or str_ireplace.

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Re:Looks like...

[pete6677]

Oh my god, somebody just made a joke about PHP, the most sacred programming language since Perl! Mod it down immediately, the poor PHP developers might see this and start crying!!!

He's a Finn!!! For f...s sake.

[Anonymous Coward]

Dude. That's a Finnish male on totally euphoric batch of Prozac, unable to contain his laughter. He's happy as a clam. You should see him when he's unhappy.