There's a new post over on phpPatterns about a "one-on-one chat with one of PHPs core developers" and Harry F.

Shared a coffee and interesting chat with Christian Stocker this weekend; my first one-on-one with one of PHPs core developers. Christian works on the DOM extension as well being co-boss of Bitflux Gmbh (Inc/Ltd) and in the lucky position of making his living with PHP. [...] Good news on the DOM extension for PHP5 (and all the other hot new XML stuff built on libxml2) is it will be part of the core PHP distribution.

There's a lot more to this discussion than mentioned here, and it's interesting to see some thoughts from someone "on the inside", including a nice segway into a discussion of intrgration vs. new applications in the world of PHP.