Chris,

I was under the impression that the PHP library was a JainRain project.  Is it 
a fork that the foundation has taken responsibility for at some point?

I don't know that it is the foundations code.  It may be but then who is 
maintaining the agreements for contributors?

John B.
On 2011-01-19, at 11:40 PM, Chris Messina wrote:

> It has come to my attention that the maintenance of the OpenID libraries has 
> fallen by the wayside in the past year. Since OpenID 2.0 is still the de 
> facto latest version, I believe it is up to the foundation to make sure that 
> we're keeping the existing libraries up to date.
> 
> Specifically, since our code is hosted on GitHub, there have been several 
> forks and subsequent pull requests posted to the PHP library:
> 
> https://github.com/openid/php-openid
> 
> Will Norris is reviewing these changes but I think this raises an important 
> issue that we've neglected for some time — making the developer experience of 
> integrating OpenID (beyond using an off-the-shelf solution like Janrain 
> Engage) adequate. To that end, making sure that the libraries are open for 
> improvements, and that we respond to pull requests in a timely fashion should 
> be something that we prioritize in 2011.
> 
> If it's unclear who the current maintainers or owners are for the libraries, 
> that's something we should absolutely address.
> 
> Chris
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