Welcoming Elizabeth Barron as the New Executive Director of the PHP Foundation
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But I could not find an answer to the most obvious questions:
What did they do last year? There is no annual public report of their activity.
Do they pay developers to work on whatever they want on the PHP core? Or does the foundation have an internal roadmap and assign tasks to developers?
[^1]: https://opencollective.com/phpfoundation#category-BUDGET
[^2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE4g1Tl6RQw at 06:45
https://thephp.foundation/blog/2025/12/02/can-we-count-on-yo...
There is[1][2][3], the one for 2025 just isn't out yet.
[1]: https://thephp.foundation/blog/2025/03/31/transparency-and-i...
[2]: https://thephp.foundation/blog/2024/02/26/transparency-and-i...
[3]: https://thephp.foundation/blog/2022/11/22/transparency-and-i...
Tells us everything we need to know. Hopefully this leads to the US government dumping PHP, which is a good thing.
Why would the government dump any programming language for anything non security related, let alone for the actions of a third party nonprofit? PHP is still governed my a committee of approved voters like always, not by the PHP foundation.
They chose a religious zealot to lead their project. All I saw was virtue signaling and DEI initiatives. That's so 2021.
>Why would the government dump any programming language for anything non security related, let alone for the actions of a third party nonprofit?
PHP is enough of a security nightmare for anyone to dump it. Considering how anti-DEI/woke the current administration is, it'll be an easy choice.
Some communities had a figurehead installed by committee who provoked negative reactions due to bad decisions. Sometimes the leadership arose naturally or just turned out very competent.
And no one even worry about someone not rising naturally when he is not demographic, regardless of level of nepotism and good old boys network that got him in.