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Friday, July 28, 2006

Lead PHP Developer Jani Taskinen Quits

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.

The text of that email message is here: "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."

I don't know if this is real or not but Digg has a comment that might show the reason
http://digg.com/programming/Lead_PHP_programmer_quits#c2484943

5 comments:

supermike said...

Man, that sucks. I *LOOOOOVE* PHP. While another team at my company struggles daily with Webspeed and Progress, and another team fights with J2EE and Oracle, I laugh and mosey right along with PHP and PostgreSQL. Ha ha!

Denis said...

Check this out
http://digg.com/programming/Lead_PHP_programmer_quits#c2484943

That might be the reason

Anonymous said...

Let me guess you work for dow jones....

Denis said...

Or Bloomberg or Merril Lynch

All within 5 square miles

Denis said...

BTW just because I live in Princeton doesn't mean I work in Princeton