Dear internals,
I just registered my own php.net account, username "bof". This is the
obligatory introduction mail I'm supposed to send :)
TL;DR: I think I know what I'm doing, and currently I'm requesting RFC karma.
I'm mainly working as a system administrator. As part of my job I'm supporting
a small group of PHP developers, and the deployed, operational result of their
work. I've been building PHP myself for development and production, starting
with late 5.4 releases, and I'm now tracking 5.6.X pretty closely. I've been
subscribed to internals for some time now, following most of the discussions
and sometimes dropping an opinion. Apart from system administration itself I'm
a programmer at heart, using C since the early 90ies. No biggie open source
contributions to point at, but I've been working with everything from kernel
code to server application code the last 20 years; regarding PHP itself, I
contributed to one, and authored another nearly unused extension (but we're
using them in production), which you can find at https://github.com/bof, I
internally developed a third one that we don't publish, made some bug reports,
the most recent one, fixed by laruence for 5.6.7, was #69038
The present reason to apply for an account is that working on another current
bug report, #68486, I came to look pretty closely at the apache2handler code.
I got the feeling that at the moment, nobody gives it the love it deserves,
and I want to step up and change that. So my mid-term goal is to offer my help
as maintainer of that part of the codebase, if I'm deemed worthy :) For a
start, apart from nagging to get that bug closed, I will work on fixing the
currently broken virtual() function (new bug report coming soon...), and as
already mentioned in a recent internals thread (PHP apache2handler virtual()
function) I'm working on a new apache specific function apache_tail_request()
- and that' where my present request for an account comes from, because I
think that I'll need to provide a small RFC regarding that addition.
Hope this is sufficient introduction for now. If not, just ask.
best regards
Patrick