As is mentioned by Matthew Weier O'Phinney (and expanded on by Robert Basic) beginning immediately, the Zend Framework 2 project will no longer require developers to sign a CLA before submitting their code.

In #zf2 news, effective immediately, we no longer require a CLA for #zf2 contributions. Let the pull requests flow!

Robert gives a bit more detail in his post, pointing out the official git repo, the issues list, section on the wiki and the mailing list/IRC meetings. There's also a blog to follow to get the latest updates for the project.

If you'd like to find out more about this new version of the framework, check out this video from ZendCon by Matthew.

The Zend Developer Zone has a new post about this month's Zend Framework Bug Hunt Days happening today (the 22nd), 23rd and 24th:

For those who haven't put the recurring event in their calendar, the Zend Framework Monthly Bug-hunt is here again! This Thursday, Friday and Saturday (the 22nd, 23rd and 24th of September), we'll be hosting our monthly bug hunt. For those of you unfamiliar with the event, each month, we organize the community to help reduce the number of open issues reported against the framework.

Included in the post are instructions on how to find issues in their new Jira configuration (unresolved issues), where you can go to get involved - including the zftalk.dev IRC channel and their "Getting Started" guide.

This new post on the Zend Developer Zone (from Ralph Schindler) is announcing this month's Zend Framework Bug Hunt Days starting today (the 26th) and running through Saturday (the 28th).

For those who haven't put the reoccurring event in their calendar, this announcement is for you: Zend Framework Monthly Bug-hunt is here again! Tomorrow, Friday and Saturday of May (the 26th, 27th and 28th 2011), we'll be hosting our monthly bug hunt. For those of you unfamiliar with the event, each month, we organize the community to help reduce the number of open issues reported against the framework.

He mentions last month's winner, Adam Lundrigan, and some hints on how to get started (including a few screenshots on helping you find issues to work on). See the rest of the post for complete information.

On the Zend Developer Zone there's a new post from Ralph Schindler announcing this month's bug hunt days for the Zend Framework project - April 28th (today!), 29th and 30th.

Now that you're done paying the Tax Man (for the North Americans reading this blog post), it's time to pay it forward by helping an open source project close some issues! For those who haven't put the reoccurring event in their calendar, this announcement is for you. [...] For those of you unfamiliar with the event, each month, we organize the community to help reduce the number of open issues reported against the framework.

He mentions the top contributor of last month's bug hunt (Benoît Durand) and some handy links you can use to get involved - the current bug list, how to sign up for a CLA (required to contribute) and a guide for the beginners out there.

On the Zend Developer Zone Ralph Schindler has announced this month's bug hunt days for the Zend Framework:

For those who haven't put the reoccurring event in their calendar, this announcement is for you: Zend Framework Monthly Bug-hunt is here again! This Thursday, Friday and Saturday of March (the 24th, 25th and 26th 2011), we'll be hosting our monthly bug hunt. For those of you unfamiliar with the event, each month, we organize the community to help reduce the number of open issues reported against the framework.

He mentions the winners of last month's event - Benoit Durand and Ramon Henrique Ornelas - and a link to their guide on how you can get started and get involved with this month's event (starting with getting a CLA on file).

On the Zend Developer Zone today Ralph Schindler has officially announced the first bug hunt event of 2011 for the Zend Framework happening today through the 22nd.

It's time to kick 2011 off with a bang. Tomorrow, Friday and Saturday (January 20th, 21st, and 22nd) we will be hosting our monthly bug-hunt. For those of you unfamiliar with the event, each month, we organize the community to help reduce the number of open issues reported against the framework. So, if you haven't already planned to take some time to get involved, now's the time. Bounce on over to your bosses cube and have him carve out some time to bug-hunt with us!

With the release of Zend Framework 1.11, the current branch will make up the final release in the 1.x series. If you'd like to join in, you can go over to the Freenode IRC network and join the #zftalk.dev channel to get started. You'll need a CLA on file to commit back to the project.

On the Zend Developer Zone today there's the announcement of their latest Bug Hunt Day for the Zend Framework happening the 18th through the 20th of November (this Thursday through Saturday).

For those who haven't put the reoccurring event in their calendar, this announcement is for you: Zend Framework Monthly Bug-hunt is here again! This Thursday, Friday and Saturday of November (the 18th, 19th and 20th 2010), we'll be hosting our monthly bug hunt. For those of you unfamiliar with the event, each month, we organize the community to help reduce the number of open issues reported against the framework.

This bug hunt is a particularly important one since they've released the final release branch for the 1.x series. They want things to be "rock solid" and are encouraging even more testers to come and help out. To help out, you'll need a CLA on file and you can read their guide on how to get started.

On the Zend Developer Zone there's a new announcement about this month's Bug Hunt Days for the Zend Framework happening Thursday the 16th through Saturday the 18th.

Yep, it's the third week of the month again - and you know what that means: Zend Framework Monthly Bughunt! This Thursday, Friday and Saturday of September (the 16th, 17th and 18th 2010), we'll be hosting our monthly bug hunt. For those of you unfamiliar with the event, each month, we organize the community to help reduce the number of open issues reported against the framework. [...] All in all, bug hunt days have helped us close 100's of issues in Zend Framework since their inception. These bug hunts have proved vital to keeping up the bug squashing momentum in this project.

He mentions the winner of last month's Bug Hunt Days - Ramon Henrique Ornelas - who closed some of the 28 issues that were finished for August. If you'd like to get involved in this month's Bug Hunt, you'll need to have a CLA on file with the framework team and, if you're a first-timer, you should check out their guide for getting started.

On the ThinkPHP blog today there's this new post talking about open source contribution and, more specifically, making contributions to a popular PHP project - the Zend Framework.

Who hasn't ever started writing his own Framework/CMS? It is considered best practice for learning purposes, but going through all the security stuff can be stressful and boring at the same time. That's where most devs start to contribute to big Open Source-projects like Typo3 or the Zend Framework, because they are already experienced working with it and yet evolving another system on the market or even getting people to contribute seems like an unachievable task.

They talk about the evangelizing that all of the Zend Framework tutorial posts do to further the cause of ZF use and how they can help introduce beginners to the framework even easier than them trying to submit bugfixes right from the start. They also talk about the process of contributing back to the Zend Framework - signing a CLA, reading the standards, grabbing the code from the subversion server and checking out the bug tracker for things to get in and fix (and write unit tests for, of course).

The Zend Developer Zone has announced this month's Bug Hunt Days for August 2010 happening the 19th through the 21st - this Thursday through Saturday.

Yep, it's the third week of the month again- and you know what that means: Zend Framework Monthly Bughunt! This Thursday, Friday and Saturday of August (the 19th, 20th and 21st 2010), we'll be hosting our monthly bug hunt. For those of you unfamiliar with the event, each month, we organize the community to help reduce the number of open issues reported against the framework.

Last month's event saw the closing of 50 bugs during the three days with a tie for first place. If you're interested in helping out, you'll need to get a CLA on record before you can commit back to the project. You can check out the #zftalk.dev channel on the Freenode IRC network or just read their guide to get started.