Following the recent departure of one of its key collaborators, Francois Zaninotto, Symfony has taken a fair bit of stick and has seen some users abandon the web app framework in favour of alternatives such as Zend.
It seems Francois’ frustrations with the closed nature of Symfony development (he says 95% of decisions are made by one man - creator Fabien Potencier) finally outweighed his enjoyment of working on the project, prompting him to leave (more details can be found at Redo The Web, Francois’ blog).
Despite boasting some pretty high profile users (Yahoo Bookmarks and Askeet to name a couple) and thousands of smaller ones (see this Symfony list of some of the key sites built on the framework), the initiative is…