Hi, Gabor.
I just wanted to let you know that I am grateful for your *great job* in
the Doc team, honestly.
The PHP documentation is the best documentation I've ever seen... It's
extremely well organized (despite the amount of data It has), and
there's no doubt that you have a lot to do with that.
I wish you the best with your girl and your projects!
Cheers!
Gabor Hojtsy wrote:
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
--
Gustavo Narea.
PHP Documentation - Spanish Translation Team.
Valencia, Venezuela.
