Lukas Smith is "pre-announcing" the effort he and several other core PHP developers have put together to try and help the PHP language become that much more solid - TestFest.

I am posting this blog post to get a last round of feedback before we go live with a proper announcement on PHP.net. The current state of the discussion is available for all to read on the newly created PHP.net wiki. Please read through it and provide comments either in this blog, in an email to me or to the php-qa mailinglist.

They're also looking for developers to help with the web interface they'll need (the "simple back-end" that the moderators can use to handle the incoming test submissions). Complete information about the event can be found on its wiki page.

The German PHP publication PHP Magazin has taken a bold step to show their support of things like the Go-PHP5 Project with their latest announcement:

With the beginning of issue 1.08 (coming to the newsstands in November 2007), PHP Magazin won't accept any articles or source codes that cover PHP4 topics or PHP4 sourcecode. Sourcecode delivery must cover PHP 5.2 or greater.

You can find out more information about submitting to this German publication on their website (including several topic suggestions to help get you started).

Spurred on by a rejection notice he recieved from Zend for the upcoming Zend/PHP Conference & Expo, Terry Chay has written up some thoughts on the process he went through to make the submission and on one of Zend's key words these days - "enterprise".

Ahh, the standard rejection letter! But how I got it is anything but standard and that's what I want to muse about in this article.

He talks about a few of the small things that bothered him, like the lack of an online registration for the submission of talks and how difficult Zend seemed to make it:

In other words, my problem is with Zend, the girl in school who begs you to ask her out to the high school dance just so she can turn you down.

Terry then gets into the whole "enterprise" term that floats around Zend and how they seem to be relaying the message that, despite all indicators to the contrary, those that "hang out" with Zend will be the ones that make it.

There's tons more that Terry says in this great new post, so be sure to check it out and enjoy the read.

With Greg Beaver helping out Joshua Eichorn on the "bug squashing" in the phpDocumentor project, there have been several bug-related emails that have come their way - and not all of them good. So, in this latest post on Joshua's blog, he offers some suggestions that would make the emails easier on them.

phpDocumentor Bug submission guide:

• phpDocumentor Version
• PHP Version
• OS Version
• How your running phpDocumentor, CLI, CLI+ini file, Web interface
• Instructions on howto reproduce the error
  • A simplified set of code to parse that produces the error
  • How you have phpDocumentor configured, an ini file being the prefered way rather then a mile of command line parameters

He also notes, of course, that patches are always welcome (as built off of version 1.3.x in the PEAR cvs).