If they asked harder for donations, they would surely raise enough for maintenance.
Plenty of companies can donate 0.1 engineers to work on php, if for no other reason than to make php better for their own use cases.
Plenty of companies can donate 0.1 engineers to work on php, if for no other reason than to make php better for their own use cases.
And asking harder? How does harder look like in comparison to regular asking?
Better than running on fumes would be to honourably phase out and give people time to move on.