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Er is veel controversie ontstaan nadat Jani Taskinen, ook wel bekend als sniper, op de PHP internals mailinglist aangaf om te stoppen met contributies maken. Hij was vooral actief bij bug reporting en fixes daarvan. Hieronder staat de e-mail:

Thank you all for the last 6 years or so. It has been fun (sometimes)
and many times not so much fun. Unfortunately I have had enough and
I don't want to be associated with this project anymore.

I'm sure most people (the ones who matter) can understand why.
If someone doesn't, I could not care less. Take care.

Please do not reply to this email.
--Jani
p.s. Delete my CVS account. I have no use for it anymore.

Op Slashdot werd onmiddelijk hevig gespeculeerd waarom hij gestopt is, er is een controversiele IRC log waarin sniper uitlegt waarom hij stopt.

<_sniper_> hehehehe..
<_sniper_> all other members of the UN security council wanted to condemn Israel for attacking the UN post but USA (freedom and democracy) vetoed it....Israel says the resolution was fair.
<_sniper_> hell yeah..
<_sniper_> NUKE ISRAEL!
<_sniper_> I'm so full of that fucking country..
indeed
<_sniper_> Eye for an eye..I'll kill one Israel officer for one of ours, is that fair?
<_sniper_> I bet I'll be hanged for that.
<_sniper_> They kill one of my brother-in-arms-for-peace..I think I'm entitled to kill one of their nazis.
<_sniper_> Hezbollah, where can I enlist?
<_sniper_> FYI: I don't care at all what anybody thinks about me. I'm going to be openly anti-Israel from now on. This was the last straw for me. Fuck you jews.
<_sniper_> I will also quit this project. As long as it's backed by some Israel company, I don't want to have anything to do with it.
<_sniper_> Good bye.
< -- _sniper_ (~jani@a88-112-115-63.elisa-laajakaista.fi) has left #php.pecl

Gelukkig geeft hij later zelf een duidelijkere verklaring, social life begint belangrijker te worden ( WAT?! Geen echte geek dus ;) ).

Here are some facts so everybody can stop guessing and hopefully we can put an end to this stupid thread. (although it has been amusing to see these analogies made between me and Linus :)

1. I did have that rant on IRC after coming from bar and reading the news about the UN security council's decision not to condemn the attack on the UN post. The channel was public so I don't hold it against anybody for posting the log.

Doing that I didn't really think anybody was listening, just using the (wrong) channel for getting some steam out. I apologize for the wrong choice of words in "fuck jews" where it should have been "fuck israel". And of course I mean the government of Israel when I say "I'm anti-israel". I have friends who are jews and it does not bother me at all. Hopefully they don't get offended by those remarks I made.. :(

2. I have been in Lebanon (1998-1999) serving as a peacekeeper for one year (+ one day :). In 2004 I served in Kosovo and currently I'm serving in Afghanistan.

3. In Lebanon I did NOT serve in the same post that was bombed. It was an OGL post and I served in UNIFIL. I don't personally know the fellow finnish peacekeeper that died. I know a lot of peacekeepers (from many countries too) and if any of them got killed, I'd feel as bad as if my brother/sister was killed.

4. I am not lead developer of anything. Neither are most of the people listed on zend.com that have this weird generated "CV" from CVS commits added to their profile. (I have complained about it to Zend people at least once :) Most of the work and energy I've spend on getting rid of bogus bug reports. And sometimes even fixing an odd bug here and there..

5. I did quit PHP the project but the bombing of the UN post was just some sort of "last straw". I've been trying to quit the project for a long time. Sounds like a bad habit? Yes, exactly. I just realized that how insignificant it all is. And I really need to concentrate on LIVING more. Hence the quitting. (PHP folks: PLEASE remove the CVS account..otherwise I might get tempted to direct my browser again to the bugs.php.net..). I tried NOT to provoke exactly these kinds of discussions by stating "Do not reply" and not stating what the last straw was. And here we are. :/

I have been shot at/near/over and pointed by guns by both IDF and some lebanese militia(s) and I can assure you that I don't have any warm feelings to neither party right now. Both have been/are killing innocent civilians (for different reasons) and I condemn both for causing the unnecessary deaths of 4 unarmed UN observers. Back in 1999 both sides attacked finnish UN posts. Nobody died just because of very good luck..now we run out of that luck.

Anyway, I'll go enjoy LIFE now.