It’s Oh So Quiet
It’s so quiet in this blog, because it is closed. Forever. No more post will ever be published, you can’t send any comment, and you can unsubscribe safely from its RSS feed. More than 8,000 unique visitors a month now have time to procrastinate elsewhere.
I have finally admitted that I have better things to do in my free time than contributing to the symfony project. So I can say goodbye to all the following, without regret:
- Writing a book,
- Publishing 54 blog posts here and a certain amount in the symfony project blog,
- Reading 715 comments here and countless emails in the symfony mailing-lists,
- Following the symfony timeline every day, and reviewing the code contributed to the framework core,
- Developing, testing, and documenting more than 20 plugins,
- Giving a few conferences and trainings,
- And helping newcomers find their way in the symfony ecosystem via IRC, chat, and email.
You can’t imagine how much time all that takes. Well, that’s how much free time I get by leaving symfony completely.
Since summer 2005, my involvement in symfony has been more and more thorough, more and more visceral, and more and more painful. I did my best to push symfony in the direction that I considered to be the right one, but I failed. Symfony used to be simple, well documented, and powerful; today it’s just powerful. Long forgotten are the days where symfony’s motto was “Professional Tools for Lazy Folks”. I see no future in a project where release dates are never satisfied, where new features are released undocumented, where discussions either never start or die without a generally accepted decision, where the community is tolerated only for its praises, and most of all, where the average user is despised.
If you use any of the symfony plugins that I developed and maintained, and if you want to contribute back to their code, you should contact Kris Wallsmith, the new symfony community manager. He’s responsible for these plugins now, and will give developer access at his own discretion. As for me, I may use my commit access for modifications regarding the projects I work on, without further notice.
- DbFinderPlugin
- sfAssetsLibraryPlugin
- sfControlPanelPlugin
- sfFeed2Plugin
- sfMediaLibraryPlugin
- sfModerationPlugin
- sfPagerNavigationPlugin
- sfPropelActAsSortableBehaviorPlugin
- sfPropelAlternativeSchemaPlugin
- sfPropelSpamTagBehaviorPlugin
- sfSimpleBlogPlugin
- sfSimpleCMSPlugin
- sfSimpleForumPlugin
- sfSpyPlugin
- sfStatsPlugin
- sfUFOPlugin
- sfUJSPlugin
- sfWebBrowserPlugin
Redoing the web was an ambitious task. Who knows, I might still manage to do it in the future.
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