😭 Tidelift cut PHP funding

I wanted to reach out to you proactively to share some news that will impact the income that you have been receiving as a lifter with Tidelift.

As you may know, we make decisions about how much to pay open source packages based on a number of factors but it is mostly grounded in usage by our current customers combined with strategic investments in areas where we predict usage by future customers.From time to time, we also make changes to where we allocate payments based on these criteria.

Unfortunately, the reality is that we haven’t had as much traction with enterprise app developers using PHP as we have with other ecosystems; our customers tend to build their applications with mostly Java, JavaScript, and Python with smaller amounts of C# and Go.

As a result, we will be reducing the income for PHP packages to a base level of $25/mo per package. This is more in line with other ecosystems where we have limited customer demand. These changes will go into effect with the next lifter payout on April 3rd.

I realize this may be unfortunate news for you, as this income has been steady over the last several years. If you have any questions for me, I’d be happy to answer them, and certainly as we see more customer demand for PHP within our customer and prospect pool, that will be accompanied by a corresponding increase in the income provided to PHP packages.

Thanks for all you do as a maintainer, and we hope to have better news with you down the road!

All best,

Jeremy
Co-founder and CTO
Tidelift

Yii foundation lost about 35% of its income :(

#php #yii #opensource

🚀 Yii3 web application template 1.0

Last month Yii team released first stable version of application template. That means all the packages used there are stable. I've helped with whatever I was able to ship (not much) and the team did most of the job.

In fact, Yii3 is used in production for about 2 years if not more. Early adopters were risky enough to use unstable versions. We've used in for Twindo.ai weather proxy. But then packages stabilized and, as I've heard, it was used in quite interesting projects such as whole bank automation.

Check it out

Guys from Spiral framework (Alexey is Yii team as well but missed recent developments overall) tried Yii3 without looking at docs and managed to succeed. That was fun to watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksjGwhvVcN8 (in Russian, either use subtitles or auto-translation).

Also, more package releases are coming. And another application template aimed to be used for APIs.

Large part of the team and community members will be in Moscow at PyhConf soon.

One more thing: if you're Yii user (no matter which version it is), please send me some details about the project and some words about the framework. We'd like to publish it on Yii3 landing page (in the works).

#yii #yii3