While I don't want to downplay his role in mobilizing the community, it's hardly single-handed. Implementing ext/sodium was a group effort by dozens of developers, reviewers, and testers.
Libsodium was Frank Denis's project, which was spawned by NaCl by cryptographers Dan Bernstein, Tanja Lange, and Peter Schwabe.
The participants who voted on the RFC, for the most part, were involved in the technical discussions over the past two years since I first mentioned the notion of doing so (before the PHP 7.0 release).
Similarly, there were 13 people who contributed to the libsodium-php repository (ext/libsodium in PECL). Every single one of them had to consent to relicensing the extension to easily get merged into PHP, and we all did.
I often joke that I'm the worst C developer in all of infosec, but there's some truth to that when it comes to modifying the PHP core.
My main role in the ext/sodium project was saying, "We should do this," and somehow getting people to listen.
Very fair. I don't mean to minimize the efforts of others and the community. I should say as an outsider with a long-held aversion to anything PHP-related, Scott has single-handedly changed my view of the language to a more neutral position.
