Gentoo PHP Team

1.  Project Description

The Gentoo PHP Team looks after the packages for the PHP programming language. PHP is by far the most important and popular programming language for web-based applications, and is the 'P' in the LAMP stack.

We're also onhand to provide information and support on PHP to other Gentoo developers.

2.  Project Goals

Our goal is to ensure that Gentoo provides the best environment possible for developing and running software written in PHP.

3.  Developers

All developers can be reached by e-mail using nickname@gentoo.org.

4.  Recruitment

We are currently looking for users interested in helping the project with the following jobs:

Maintainer of PEAR/PECL packages

Job description

Maintainer of packages extending PHP. Includes basic revision bumping, adding new packages and maintain related eclasses.

Requirements

Experience with PHP on Gentoo.

Contact

php-bugs@gentoo.org

Maintainer of dev-lang/php

Job description

The maintainers of dev-lang/php help out with releasing and patching the core package of PHP: dev-lang/php.

Requirements

Experience with PHP. Experience with patching software. Bonus points if you have knowledge about the internals of PHP.

Contact

php-bugs@gentoo.org

5.  Resources

Resources offered by the PHP project are:

• Documentation: How to install PHP on various servers using the most common SAPIs
• Documentation: Upgrading PHP
• The Gentoo PHP Overlay & Wiki
• The Gentoo PHP Git Overlay

6.  Herds

The PHP project maintains the following herds:

7.  Participating

#gentoo-php on irc.freenode.net

The best way to reach us is on IRC in the #gentoo-php channel on irc.freenode.net. Please feel free to stop by to talk about PHP on Gentoo. We welcome any suggestions for improvement.

Participating

The best way to get involved with what we do is to hang out in #gentoo-php. There are always things to be done (and exciting new ideas to turn into reality), and we're always looking for new ways to make Gentoo the first choice for developers programming in PHP, and for system administrators running webservers with PHP.