[UPHPU] Lead PHP developer quits...

[Gabriel Gunderson]

So, from UPHPU's home page:

"Jani Taskinen, one of the lead developers of the Zend Engine (the
engine that powers PHP), as well as a lead developer for the thread
safety system and other core components of the PHP project, has quit in
a relatively cryptic message to the php-internals mailing list. Jani has
been involved with PHP for about 6 years and his loss will undoubtedly
be a big blow for the PHP project."

What's this all about? I'm not a big PHP guy so I don't know who he is.
Was he *the* lead PHP dev, *a* lead PHP dev or *one* of many lead PHP
devs?

What does if mean for the future of PHP?  Is it a big deal?

Is it even true?

-- 
Gabriel Gunderson
http://gundy.org