2005

Repository is open to share my first  RPMs on my FAI personal pages, mostly for Fedora Core 3

2006

In order to have more people taking benefit of my works, I join Fedora project as a contributor

2007

RHEL / CentOS 4 repository is Open, hosted on a dedicated server on the famillecollet.com domain

2008

With Fedora Core and Extras merge, I start to co-maintain PHP packages for the new Fedora 7

2011

As a PECL contributor I can now participate in lot of extensions maintenance

2012

As a PHP Contributor I can now participate more actively to the project maintenance

I join Red Hat where I will also work on PHP

2015

Start using the remirepo.net domain

2017

I become, with Sara Golemon, Release Manager of PHP 7.2

2020

With more than 500 millions of downloads, more than 30 mirrors in the world, my  "little" repository, created 15 years ago, have became (I think) one of the reference pour PHP and RPM users, providing

  • 7 versions of PHP
    • from 5.6 to 7.1 with security backports
    • from 7.2 to 7.4
    • 8.0.0-dev
  • 150 extensions
  • 6 distributions
    • RHEL / CentOS 6, 7 and 8
    • Fedora 30 to 32
  • 3 distribution modes
    • Base packages, 1 repository per version
    • Software Collections for parallel installation
    • Modules

Regular donations, which cover at least hosting costs are for me a good encouragement sign, proving the usefulness of my work.