Welcome GSoC students!

Hi,

Google just announced the final assignments for their Summer of Code
program for this year.
On behalf of the PHP project I'd like to welcome our students and give
you some general information about the project.

The following projects have been accepted for the PHP project:

Zend LLVM Extension
by Joonas Govenius, mentored by Nuno Lopes
PHP Optimizer
by Samuel Graham Kelly IV, mentored by Derick Rethans
PhD Improvements and Updates
by Nicholas Sloan, mentored by Hannes Magnusson
Replace auto* with CMake
by Alejandro Leiva Rojas, mentored by Pierre A. Joye
gsoc:2008 - XDebug
by Chung-Yang Lee, mentored by David Coallier
Rewrite the run-tests.php script
by Cesar Montedonico, mentored by Travis Swicegood
PHP Bindings for Cairo
by Akshat Gupta, mentored by Anant Narayanan
Algorithm Optimizations
by Michal Dziemianko, mentored by Scott MacVicar
PECL, Website Improvements
by Barry Carlyon, mentored by Helgi Þormar Þorbjörnsson
Implement Unicode into PHP 6
by Henrique do Nascimento Angelo, mentored by Scott MacVicar

See http://code.google.com/soc/2008/php/about.html for details about
these projects.

Important Mailing lists:
php.net mailing lists are open discussion lists which can be
subscribed by anyone and collected in public archives. Main language
is English, as most people on these lists aren't native speakers
don't be ashamed of writing "bad English" - I guess there are
mistakes in this mail, too.
For subscribing send an empty mail to the mentioned address and
follow the instructions given in an automatic response.
The complete rules can be found on

internals This list is For everybody working on the PHP core or
it's run-time, all decisions about PHP's core should be
made there the list is also open for questions about PHP
internals. Please mind that this list is, most likely,
the most read one of these I mention here so please think
before spaming it ;-)
address: internals@lists.php.net
subscription: internals-subscribe@lists.php.net
pecl-dev This list is for discussions about extensions for PHP or
the PECL website.
address: pecl-dev@lists.php.net
subscription: pecl-dev-subscribe@lists.php.net
doc Everything related to documentation, talking about the
documentation build system (PhD) and documenting new
features.
address: doc@lists.php.net
subscription: doc-subscribe@lists.php.net

Depending on your project there might be other lists, please talk to
your mentor for getting details.

General rules on mailing lists:
When writing to a mailing list please mind that you're writing to a
whole bunch of people from different cultures with different
background so try to be polite and clear about what you are saying -
and don't feel insulted if you get "impolite" answers - we're all
humans and make mistakes! When answering to mails please avoid top
posting but cite the parts you're responding to and answer below
them. See http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html
When starting a new thread please don't response to another mail but
start a new mail, else it will be sorted to the wrong place with mail
clients. Please write plain text mails, not HTML mails.
The php.net mailing lists don't set the "Reply-To" Header (on
purpose) please remember to use your mail client's "Reply to All"
button when answering to the list, use "Reply" for sending a private
reply.

Chats:
Chats are an important way for communication, it's a place to get
questions answered fast, at least sometimes. As most PHP developers
are either from Europe or the states the most traffic in general is
there from European noon till late evening or during American
daytime. There are no "official" channels but #php.pecl on EFNet is a
place with many developers hanging out. Please mind that IRC is no
place for decisions. Decisions should, in general, be made on the
list else you only get responses from people who are randomly around.
An introduction about IRC can be found on
http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/irctutorial.html Please ask your
mentor for further advice for your specific project.

Code management:
The PHP project uses CVS for tracking it's code. For using php.net's
CVS server please check http://php.net/anoncvs.php For getting write
access on a repository you can request an account on
http://php.net/cvs-php.php - before doing that please check with your
mentor to define what kind of access you need for your specific
project.

Coding styles:
For code written in the C programming language please mind our
general standards: http://php.net/reST/php-src/CODING_STANDARDS
Projects written in PHP should follow the PEAR Coding Standards:
http://pear.php.net/manual/en/standards.php
And again: Your specific project might have other standards, please
check with your mentor.

Any questions left? Ask your mentor, use the mentioned communication
tools or if you can't find somebody else you can write to me and I'll to
assist you.

Greetings,
johannes
GSoC Co-Administrator for PHP, Release Manager for PHP 5.3

Of interesting note: the list rejected my earlier (second) reply

to your message, Johannes. It claimed the Google BlogSpot URL was a
SPAMMY URL.

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