Congrats, Matthew. Out of curiosity, is Wil staying on at Zend? -Matt On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 5:15 AM, Matthew Weier O'Phinney <matt...@zend.com>wrote:
> Greetings! > > The Zend Framework team has undergone some internal reorganization > recently which will have some bearing on the project. > > First, the team now reports to Zeev Suraski, Zend's CTO. Please welcome > him to the lists! > > Additionally, Wil Sinclair is ending his tenure as the Zend Framework > team leader. During his time as project lead, Zend Framework has made > tremendous progress in becoming the de-facto standard for PHP > development, with several significant achievements: > > * The 1.5, 1.6, and 1.7 releases, as well as the recent 1.8 preview > release > * Helped support and build partnerships with the Dojo Foundation, > Adobe, and others > * Introduction of agile methodologies to the ZF team > * Usage of social networking media as an additional support vector > > I'd like to thank Wil for his contributions to the Zend Framework > project! > > Finally, I am pleased to announce my own promotion to the position of > Project Lead. I have worked with Andi and Zeev in recent weeks to define > how I will approach this role, and have emphasized during that time the > need to address and respond to community concerns. > > Following the 1.8 release, the team will be focussing on items such as > whiddling down the bug backlog, improving documentation, and writing > tutorials. Additionally, we will be outlining and scoping upcoming > releases in order to publish a public roadmap for the project. Part of > this effort will include some work to make the proposal process easier > and more transparent. The hope is that having published milestones will > help focus user contributions, both in terms of new features and > stabilizing the framework. > > I look forward to working with each and every one of you, and welcome > your feedback! > > -- > Matthew Weier O'Phinney > Project Lead | matt...@zend.com > Zend Framework | http://framework.zend.com/ >