[ciapug] PHP/Zend Loses a Lead Developer

[Chris Van Cleve]

This one could definitely hurt. Here's a copy of the message Jani  
Taskinen left on the PHP internals list:

From: Jani Taskinen
Date: Thu Jul 27 20:28:45 2006
Subject: Good bye.
Groups: php.internals

Thank you all for the last 6 years or so. It has been fun (sometimes)
and many times not so much fun. Unfortunately I have had enough and
I don't want to be associated with this project anymore.

I'm sure most people (the ones who matter) can understand why.
If someone doesn't, I could not care less. Take care.

Please do not reply to this email.

--Jani

p.s. Delete my CVS account. I have no use for it anymore.

To understand what is being lost, here is a list of things Jani did  
over the past 6+ years for PHP (from http://www.zend.com/person.php? 
handle=sniper [zend.com]:

as a lead developer for Zend Engine II
as a lead developer for TSRM (Thread Safety Resource Management)
by testing and maintaining the build for the PHP core
by writing/maintaining tests for the standard functions in the PHP core
as a lead developer for gd, a core extension
by working as a developer on imap, a core extension
by working as a developer on session, a core extension
by working as a developer on sockets, a core extension
by providing occasional fixes for the testsuite distributed with PHP
by applying maintenance fixes to the underlying libraries in bcmath,  
pcre and xmlrpc
by providing tests and occasional fixes for xml
by providing occasional fixes for apache2filter, apache2handler,  
apache_hooks, cgi, cli, dba, dom, iconv, informix, isapi, ldap,  
mcrypt, mcve, mime_magic, msql, mssql, mysqli, mysql, ncurses, oci8,  
odbc, openssl, oracle, pgsql, recode, snmp, soap, sqlite, sybase,  
tidy and tokenizer
by writing/maintaining tests for mbstring, mhash, pcntl, pspell,  
shmop and wddx
by working as a developer on bugs.php.net