Re: I quit.

Andrea, I'm sure this thread will explode shortly, but all the best in whatever you will do with the newly free time. Paddy On 15 February 2015 at 21:21, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> 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 therefore withdrawn: Scalar Type Hints, Spaceship/Combined Comparison Operator, Void Return Type, 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. > > Goodbye. > > -- > Andrea Faulds > http://ajf.me/ > > > > > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- -- Pádraic Brady http://blog.astrumfutura.com http://www.survivethedeepend.com Zend Framework Community Review Team Zend Framework PHP-FIG Representative