Ryan

I am sorry to see you leave the project and hope the symfony 1.1 documentation will be as good as the current book/documetation.

Would you be interested in maintaining docs if the sf1.0 branch would be maintained in the current spirit by a ’separate’ team? (as has been suggested by arhak)

I hope your new hobbies and open-source activity still continue in other exciting projects.

Best regards,

Hugo.

I remember two years ago I was looking for a PHP framework to develop a new project and Symfony was definetly choosen for its semplicity.

During these two years, and many projects thereafter, I have discovered that Symfony was not only ’simple’, it is complex and flexible, but its documentation, and the API made it simple for us beginners.

So, being a developer, I do agree with you (and with Talleyrand), API design is way too serious and important to be left to us hackers.

Good luck and let us know where you will bring your talent next time.

Anyways, if you choose to join another OSS project, they will see a huge boost no doubt. People willing to write documentation are a scarce ressource, those that master and enjoy it are even fewer to be found in OSS.

I had look for a framework like Symfony for years before I discover it. It was the Saint Grall and more over it has a huge & clear documentation which is noteworthy written style so It take me just a second to decide to leave my old home made little pear powered CMF and to developp all my web projects with Symfony. This documentation is essential because starting to use a framework like Symfony is not easy for a lot of developper who are used to use little packages (like Pear) or turnkey cms (with the hand in the engine to add business features). Symfony is clearly the state of art. I hope like you explain that 1.1 version will not be too difficult to use simply because php developpers are not java developpers (I will not write a book here to explain).

I hope you will continue to be present some time in Symfony Community for SF 1.0 or plugins.

Thanks a lot and a lot for all your work !
Sylvio

The excellent symfony documentation was one of the reasons why our company chose symfony.

I agree with you that there should a sophisticated, but also a simple way of doing most things (= that means two ways, but not more, otherwise an API gets too bloated IMO)

I disagree with some commenters, you shoudn’t equate symfony 1.1 with the new forms etc. AFAIU you don’t have to take forms 1.1 when you want to use sf 1.1.

Maybe that’s the huge step that sf 1.1 takes forward: being so decoupled that we have more choices. Couldn’t that be the step forward towards a more community-driven project?

Sebastian

PS: your daughter is so beautiful:)