| 13 Aug 2024 |
 Pol | Things has been moving quite a lot these last days and turns out that I will slowly switching to some other languages at work. That means that I won't be as actively maintain the PHP stack in Nix. | 18:16:34 |
| Pol | I've been looking for sponsors recently, but couldn't find any. Sponsors would definitely motivate me to still continue to work on PHP even if I don't use it anymore. | 18:17:04 |
| Pol | So, this is the reason why you see me less active in here. | 18:17:25 |
| Pol | So if you know a company (not you as individuals) that could potentially sponsor my work, feel free to let them know ! | 18:17:59 |
| Pol | In a few words, so you know concretely what happened... | 18:18:32 |
| Pol | I went back to school 3 years ago, nobody knew about it, not even my colleagues at European Commission. | 18:18:57 |
| Pol | I successfully finished in June, you can find my thesis at https://zenodo.org/records/13208605 | 18:19:14 |
 piotrkwiecinski | Which languages are you going to use? | 18:19:55 |
| Pol | At the very end of June, my manager announce me that the PHP Competency Center, the team where I was working in, was about to be dissolved. That means that nobody is maintaining PHP in my team anymore. | 18:20:05 |
| Pol | I had 2 choices | 18:20:10 |
| Pol |
- I would stop working for E.C.
| 18:20:23 |
| Pol |
- I would find another place where I could develop my skills
| 18:20:33 |
| Pol | I chose option 2. | 18:20:41 |
| Pol | I'm now an architect, develloping a python backend for a very cool app involving A.I. | 18:21:22 |
| Pol | So, exit PHP. | 18:21:29 |
| Pol | Welcome Python. | 18:21:53 |
| piotrkwiecinski | From elephant to snake | 18:22:13 |
| Pol | haha nice ! :D | 18:22:43 |
| Pol | I will reuse it :D | 18:22:48 |
| piotrkwiecinski | I updated comments in https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/334411 | 18:22:57 |
| Pol | I have a question for you with these patches. | 18:23:43 |
| Pol | you know I'm maintaining that thingie here: https://github.com/loophp/php-src-nix/ | 18:24:02 |
| Pol | Basically this project automatically maintain itself. I like it. | 18:24:13 |
| Pol | However, I noticed sometimes that when we set lower bounds for patches in nixpkgs, it sometimes makes issue in my project. | 18:24:37 |
| Pol | So I was wondering if you correctly set the version boundaries so it can be cleanly applied to the PHP versions we maintain in nixos/nixpkgs but also in my project. | 18:25:15 |
| piotrkwiecinski | My fix should apply to all php8.1 versions | 18:25:50 |
| Pol | As you can see, it's quite broken: https://github.com/loophp/php-src-nix/actions/runs/10364035720 | 18:25:54 |
| Pol | Oh damn, I just notice now that we will have an issue with the next PHP84 version... https://github.com/loophp/php-src-nix/actions/runs/10364035720/job/28688711194 | 18:26:47 |
| Pol | In reply to @piotrkwiecinski:matrix.org
My fix should apply to all php8.1 versions Cool, I validate your PR then. | 18:27:06 |
| Pol | Done. | 18:27:33 |
