PHP is an open source project, sure. But really, have you ever tried to volunteer for the PHP core? I've never gone through a more painful process -- so much political bullshit, resistance to change (even backwards-compatible change), and echo chamber nonsense. I attempted to volunteer on PHP for a long while, but finally realized it just wasn't worth it and gave up.
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PHP is an open source project, sure. But really, have you ever tried to volunteer for the PHP core? I've never gone through a more painful process -- so much political bullshit, resistance to change (even backwards-compatible change), and echo chamber nonsense. I attempted to volunteer on PHP for a long while, but finally realized it just wasn't worth it and gave up.
Someone should fork the damn thing.
Someone did.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2640756
Self plug: I cleaned up his original repo and put the patch against the official PHP git repo.
https://github.com/sc68cal/php-src