The PHP Foundation
| Formation | November 22, 2021 |
|---|---|
| Founder | Automattic, Laravel, Acquia, Zend, Private Packagist, Symfony, Craft CMS, Tideways, PrestaShop, JetBrains[1] |
| Website | https://thephp.foundation |
The PHP Foundation is a nonprofit organization that provides funding and support for the ongoing development of PHP.[2][3] The foundation's mission is to "ensure the long life and prosperity of the PHP language".[4]
History
JetBrains first began internally discussing the creation of The PHP Foundation in May 2021 after Joe Watkins, a PHP developer, published a blog post "Avoiding Busses".[2] In the blog, Watkins outlines how losing just two PHP contributors can have detrimental impacts to the project overall.[5] Due to the scale of PHP, and the issues including a lack of developers actively working on the project,[6] founding members decided to create a formal, non-profit foundation to protect and improve PHP.[7]
The foundation was created on 22 November 2021 as an Open Collective project by 10 companies that use or are affiliated with PHP in some way. The formation of the foundation was as a result of the departure of key PHP contributor Nikita Popov, JetBrains announcing that his departure left the language in a "fragile position".[8] A temporary administration was formed at the same time, including PHP founder Rasmus Lerdorf.[9]
Governance
Board
The foundation's board is made up of members and experts in the PHP community. The current board includes Sebastian Bergmann, Nils Adermann, Josepha Haden, Nicolas Grekas, Nikita Popov, Joe Watkins, Benjamin Eberlei, Roman Pronskiy,[10] Sara Golemon, and Matthew Weier O'Phinney.[11]
Contributors
The foundation is funded by donations. Many software development companies that use PHP or are affiliated with PHP in some way such as Zend[12] and JetBrains have made contributions.[13]
Contributions
The foundation contributes to the source code of PHP, every year they release an Impact Report outlining their contributions.
| Year | Commits | Reviews | RFCs |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022[14] | 683 | 283 | 8 |
Reception
The response to the foundation has mostly been positive, however the PHP Foundation has also been criticised for adding breaking changes to minor versions of PHP, such as in PHP 8.2 where initializing members of a class out-with the original class scope would cause depreciation errors,[15] these changes impacted a number of open source projects including WordPress.[16]
See also
External links
References
- ↑ Walker, James (2021-12-13). "What the New PHP Foundation Means for PHP's Future". How-To Geek. Retrieved 2023-11-26.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "The New Life of PHP – The PHP Foundation | The PhpStorm Blog". The JetBrains Blog. 2021-11-22. Retrieved 2023-11-26.
- ↑ Hall, Christine (2021-11-26). "Why PHP Is Getting a Foundation and Why That Matters". FOSS Force. Retrieved 2023-11-27.
- ↑ "PHP Foundation Formed". www.i-programmer.info. Retrieved 2023-11-27.
- ↑ Watkins, Joe (2021-05-04). "Musings, ninja ones: Avoiding Busses". web.archive.org. Archived from the original on 2021-11-23. Retrieved 2023-11-26. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "PHP Foundation: Alive and Kicking". Open Collective. 2022-08-20. Retrieved 2023-11-27.
- ↑ O’Phinney, Matthew Weier. "Zend and the PHP Foundation: Our Involvement and What It Means for PHP | Zend by Perforce". www.zend.com. Retrieved 2023-11-27.
- ↑ "This vital programming language is in a fragile position. A new plan aims to help". ZDNET. Retrieved 2023-11-26.
- ↑ Anderson, Tim. "PHP Foundation formed to fund core developers". www.theregister.com. Retrieved 2023-11-26.
- ↑ "Roman Pronskiy". pronskiy.com. Retrieved 2023-11-27.
- ↑ "Structure". thephp.foundation. Retrieved 2023-11-27.
- ↑ "Zend by Perforce Announces Sponsorship and Ongoing Support of the PHP Foundation | Perforce". www.perforce.com. 2022-01-18. Retrieved 2023-11-27.
- ↑ "PHP Foundation - Open Collective". opencollective.com. Retrieved 2023-11-26.
- ↑ "The PHP Foundation: Impact and Transparency Report 2022". thephp.foundation. Retrieved 2023-11-27.
- ↑ "It's time for the PHP Foundation to #StopBreakingPHP". trongate.io. Retrieved 2023-11-27.
- ↑ "WordPress 6.4 PHP Compatibility". Make WordPress Hosting. 2023-11-16. Retrieved 2023-11-27.
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