Re: I quit.

On 15/02/2015 21:21, Andrea Faulds wrote:

Hi everyone, For my own reasons, I have decided to cease my involvement with PHP development. This isn’t a judgement of the PHP community nor the internals mailing list, you’re all wonderful people and it’s really been a pleasure, and I mean that completely honestly. However, this has ended up taking up too much of my time (which is my own fault, and my own fault alone) and I can’t really justify it to myself anymore. So, I’m no longer contributing to PHP, and all four active RFCs authored by myself are therefore withdrawn: Scalar Type Hints, Spaceship/Combined Comparison Operator, Void Return Type, Big Integer Support. The first two were in voting, so the votes have been cancelled. If anyone would like to pick up from where I left off with any of these RFCs, they are very much welcome to - there is no need to consult me first (and it’s probably for the best if you don’t). The Spaceship/Combined Comparison Operator RFC was also authored by Davey Shafik, so ask him if you want to revive that one. I’m sorry about this, but it can’t be helped. I’d rather move on to other things. I would stick around to finish everything up before I leave, but I just don’t have the time nor the motivation to finish everything. I apologise for that, especially for Scalar Type Hints as I realise this is something a lot of developers were looking forward to. I’d leave quietly, but since this affects active RFCs, I need to announce it somewhere. So, thank you, PHP community. It has been a wonderful 2 years.

I'm really really sorry to hear this. The energy you've put into the project recently has been really appreciated by many people, and I really admire your dedication to finding compromises to controversial topics. I can see, though, that it takes a lot of time to be that actively involved on a voluntary basis, and that a clean break might feel necessary to shift your focus. I hope to see your name in future, either in a less involved role in PHP, or in some other project. On a purely procedural note, though, is there some way the Scalar Type Hints RFC can be left in voting, as a vote in principle, while we wait for someone to step up and take over the implementation? There are only 4 days left, and with over 100 votes cast, it seems a shame to say that they were all meaningless, while leaving the door open to start all over again. I think it will hurt people's faith in the process to cancel now, and can't think of a particularly strong reason not to let the vote run its course before deciding what to do next. Regards, -- Rowan Collins [IMSoP]