Php established new non-commercial organization PHP Foundation , which will be responsible for organizing project financing, community support and ensuring the development process. With the help of the organization PHP FOUNDATION, it is planned to attract interested companies and individual participants to co-finance work on PHP.
As a priority for 2022, there is an intention to work in the full or partial working day of developers, which will be engaged in the basic components of the PHP interpreter in the php-src . It is also considered the possibility of separating individual target grants. Creating a new organization will affect the Charter of the PHP Internals community, which, as before, will make decisions related to the development of PHP language.
One of the reasons for creating an organization was the care of Nikita Popov from Jetbrains, which financed his work on PHP (Nikita was one of Key Developers of PHP 7.4, PHP 8.0 and PHP 8.1). On December 1, Nikita will go to work on another company and will pay PHP less attention due to changes in interest – the main activity of Nikita in a new job site will be associated with the work of the LLVM project. To avoid the dependences of the PHP project from individual key developers and their employment in commercial companies, it was decided to create an independent organization PHP Foundation.
Currently, the organization has already received 19 thousand dollars from individual participants, but companies such as Automattic, Laravel, Acquia, Zend, Private Packagist, Symfony, Craft CMS, Tideways have already been stated about the intention to join the organization. and jetbrains. It is assumed that the company’s data will ensure the annual budget of 300 thousand dollars (for example, Jetbrains promised to allocate 100 thousand dollars a year).