Short intro and howtos about how to contribute to PHP, docs, fixing small, bugs etc.

1. PHP Core
Get rid of bugs and contribute!
DrupalCon Munich
2012/08/22
Pierre Joye

2. Pierre Joye
@pierrejoye
pierre@php.net
PHP Core developer
Contributors to numerous OSS projects
Works with the old Dark Force
Portability fan

3. Some Stats
• PHP versions?
• Windows?
• Linux?
• Azure? Amazon?
• Vagrant?

4. • Slow release
• Unsecure
• Hard or impossible to contribute
• Dicatorship, egomaniacs, nein sager
• Not open

5. RFC process
• Anyone can write one
• Votes (community and php.net members)
• Once accepted, short delay to get in a release
• Php.net members votes
• Communities votes
https://wiki.php.net/rfc/voting

6. Release Process
• Security only releases
• Bugs fixes releases every two months (~)
• Yearly releases with new features (i.e. 5.4)
https://wiki.php.net/rfc/releaseprocess

8. 2012/01 to 2012/04
Xinchen Hui 126
83 Very Old guy }:->
Gustavo Andre 79
dos Santos Lopes
73 Not (So) Old guy
Anatoliy Belsky 62

9. No more excuses!
contribute!
(http://bugs.php.net/random)

10. Documentation
https://edit.php.net/

14. David Soria Parra
http://pear.php.net/user/dsp/wishlist
@dsp_

17. What’s about core?

18. Simplified request handling

19. And with APC

22. Core Bundled extensions
c
Zend main SAPI ext/zip
ext/intl
ext/…
cCore Pecl/github/… exts
ext/standard TSRM Win32
ext/date netware
ext/spl
ext/pcre
c
ext/ereg memcache
ext/reflection apc
igbinary

24. Memory leaks

25. Valgrind
USE_ZEND_ALLOC=0 valgrind --tool=memcheck
-–leak-check=full php substr.php

27. MemoryValidator

29. Segfaults

30. gdb

32. Windows

34. Resources 1/2
• https://wiki.php.net/vcs/gitworkflow
• https://wiki.php.net/doc
• https://wiki.php.net/internals/zend_mm
• https://wiki.php.net/internals/windows
• http://lxr.php.net

35. Resources 2/2
• https://github.com/php/
• http://bugs.php.net/random
• https://wiki.php.net/
• http://edit.php.net