I've often considered signing up for the dev team but juggling family and work has always made getting involved seem impractical. However if things are really at the point where ongoing dev work is hanging by a thread then I'd be willing to pitch in and help if you don't mind a PHP newb poking around in the codebase.
send an email to tom (@lemuria.org) with your experience. I think you need Doctrine experience to work on the main game code, but if you take a look at the bugtracker, there's probably something there you could fix. Bugs are piling up, Doctrine conversion is basically stalled.
