Hi, I have been pondering through this writeup in the last couple of weeks, and the recent OSCOM events [1] prompted me to be straight and honest, and step back from the leadership of the PHP Documentation and from the list on the documentation frontpage consequently.
To be honest, I have not been active the last couple of months, only pariticipated in some directional discussions, and unfortunately I don't see a light in the future to be able to contribute more. Certainly I don't deserve the position to be named and listed as the PHP Documentation Editor anymore. There are quite a few more active people, who should get the credit they deserve. Being a seventh year university student, closer to my completion (hopefully next summer), I try to concentrate more on my studies. Last summer I got to know a great girl [2], who I admire, and we have been living happily in love since then (nearly nine months now), and look forward to keep this relationship indefinitely :) With some guys, we also manage to push content regularly into Weblabor.hu, our all-free (CC licensed, no ads) web development site for Hungarian developers. This year, we are preparing the Web Development Conference 2006 here in Hungary, which is the successor to our PHP Conferences (and yes, it does include content on subjects "competing" with PHP, and yes, it is free for all attendees as the PHP Conferences were before, so we expect around 500 attendees this year too). I also take a very small part in the Drupal CMS development, as many of you know, also coordinating the Hungarian translation of the interface, and the Drupal.hu website. Last, but not least I am also going to participate in musical performances again (remember the pics I posted last summer?), playing a complex character in a dramatic musical about the impact of wars on children, and how is it possible to overcome the great burdens of losing parents and all stability around you. Look at this list, and althogh I omitted some of my less interesting activities, it is quite obvious, that I am not going to be able to took part at phpdoc on the level the PHP Documentation would deserve. My plans are to keep being part of the PHP Website team, and being "active" there on the level I have been able to be "active" recently (ie. no developments for the php.net site soon from me, althogh it would need quite some work). As a website team member I would be really interested in seeing the light of the day for livedocs. It needs some momentum to be built around it, and I am hopeful, that someone will be able to do that. I am willing to be an "advisor" of the doc group further on, if it helps, so I can participate in shaping directions, in case there is any question I can help with. I cannot promise to keep an eye on the phpdoc discussions though. I hope that my reasons are understandable, and I am certain that we will be able to manage to execute some smooth process of handing the reposibilities and the credits over. It was a great pleasure to work with you, and shape the PHP Documentation into what it is today. [1] http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/the-doubtful-future-of-oscom.html [2] http://goba.hu/ Have a nice weekend, Gabor Hojtsy / Goba
