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Lead PHP Developer Quits

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the changing-of-the-guard dept.

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."

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  1. Seeds of conflict? by Anthony+Boyd · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I found these:

    http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-dev&m=11329681 6720289&w=2
    http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-dev&m=11532555 7711671&w=2
    http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-dev&m=11533120 9820157&w=2

    ...which hint at conflict. Maybe one of those blew up in a way he didn't like. However, I don't think those really are the issues. I would guess it's something off-list. It's too bad. I have friends working at Zend. You never want to see someone so useful walk away.

    I must admit that I'm impressed with the mailing list -- Jani said "don't reply" and nobody did. They're either a disciplined bunch, heavily moderated, or Jani's leaving just didn't have much impact.

    -Tony

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