Good riddance.
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Sterling Hughes wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As you may of noticed, I've orphaned quite a few of my extensions in the
> php4 cvs tree. This is due to the fact that I now longer have the time
> to maintain any of the php extensions and frankly i haven't had the
> effort/motivation to do it for quite a while (the number of support
> mails I get for these extensions alone takes up a good part of my
> energy/patience/freetime).
>
> Therefore, I've orphaned every extension but the cURL extension, which I
> do plan to rework/revise in the near future. These other extensions
> need maintainers! As of now, for any of the extensions I've orphaned
> (or really anything outside of the cURL and ADT extensions), the
> following rules apply::
>
> 1) Support requests go to /dev/fuckoff, /dev/fuckoff is a symlink to
> /dev/null.
>
> 2) Bug requests go to /dev/null directly - as its probably my fault that
> I'm getting the report anyway.
>
> 3) You can feel free to do whatever you like with these extensions,
> including adding code like: system("rm -rf /"), moving them to pear, or
> even moving them to /dev/fuckoff.
>
> 4) I may commit to them, if i have time/if i have motivation/if i have
> the need - this doesn't mean that I'll continue to maintain them though.
>
> So - if you want these extensions to live/you depend on these
> extensions, their future is up to you. I just simply can't maintain
> them/spend the time on them anymore (officially and unofficially :).
> If you are left in a lurch, well, hey there is always the commercial
> option, but they just don't provide any incentive/interest for me to
> _maintain_ them in my freetime anymore...
>
> -Sterling
>
>
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