I've been actually surprised by the rejection myself, especially considering that @ocramius, whose profile seems similar to Nicolas', already has a seat. Don't get me wrong, I have a lot of respect for @ocramius and all of his work on PHP open-source projects, but he doesn't seem to have contributed a lot to the PHP source code itself neither:
https://github.com/php/php-src/commits?author=ocramius So I always thought, well of course he has a vote as an influent member of the userland library developer community, and this is healthy. And there should be more of them. But then why not give a vote to Nicolas as well, given his huge contributions to userland PHP projects, and his occasional contributions to PHP itself? Something does not seem right here. — Benjamin
