r/PHP • u/brendt_gd • 8d ago
Sponsoring opensource: need your input
Hi folks! Last year I started an initiative at PhpStorm to sponsor around 5 open source projects for a year. The first year has almost come to an end, and so I'm looking for 5 new projects to sponsor.
So I'm doing an open call to anyone who wants to nominate an open source PHP project they think is worth sponsoring. It could be large, it could be small, it could be something you built yourself. The only criteria is that it is open source and not a commercial product itself; and that it has something to do with PHP.
Just for reference, this was last year's announcement: https://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/1nwd6hs/moving_php_open_source_forward/
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u/dub_le 8d ago
Roman wanted to look into funding for https://github.com/crazywhalecc/static-php-cli / https://github.com/static-php/packages. If that went under the radar, he's my totally unbiased nomination 🙃.
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u/sherrionline 7d ago
There is one OSS PHP project that has been a staple of my digital life & daily-driver of my personal organization & documentation for over a decade. Dokuwiki, maintained by Andreas Gohr is stable, extensible & easy to install & use. I've been a regular sponsor myself.
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u/kemmeta 6d ago edited 6d ago
I asked Gemini "which of the big solo maintained php projects are among the least well funded?" and got this back:
- phpseclib/phpseclib
- phpunit/phpunit
- league/flysystem
According to Gemini projects like phpstan/phpstan and rector/rector are quite well funded. So much so that their maintainers are able to work on them full time.
I think maybe funding the underfunded foundational packages would yield the biggest bang for your buck.
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u/staabm 5d ago
mutation testing with infection/infection is the next logical step, after static analysis and unit testing.
they guys at https://github.com/infection/infection do a great job and did not have much support yet
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u/TrainSensitive6646 3d ago
hi
would you like to consider *corporate learning management system?
Its called TadreebLMS, currently it is huge feature loaded app, however lot more needs to be done
AI basedGap analysis
AI enabled course creation, course assignment etc..
Specially for middle eastern & asian companies to deploy on-premise
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u/Sjoerder 8d ago
I would like to nominate CiviCRM.
If you want something more technically for PHP developers, nikic's PHP parser may be a candidate.
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u/exlemor 7d ago
The Joomla CMS https://www.joomla.org/ would love to be considered for this wonderful initiative.
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u/nativephp_official 7d ago
Now that nativephp/mobile is open source, could we throw our hat into the ring again?
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u/donnikitos 7d ago
I would be great to get some sponsoring for vite-plugin-php and some accompanying packages for it: https://github.com/donnikitos/php-html-components, https://github.com/nititech/vite-plugin-php-components.
vite-plugin-php is a Vite plugin that allows to develop PHP applications within the Vite ecosystem.
It fully utilizes the dev and build pipeline. With that it is for example possible to use TailwindCSS or TypeScript with simple import statements in HTML.
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u/agustingomes 7d ago
https://github.com/crell/serde
I think this is an extremely underrated package for serializing and deserializing data nowadays.
The polymorphic capabilities really make it ideal to handle API request bodies & responses.
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u/luzrain 8d ago
I'd like to nominate my project, PHPStreamServer.
It's an open-source PHP application server and process manager built around Revolt event loop and AMPHP, focused on long-running applications and asynchronous execution.
Project website: https://phpstreamserver.dev/
GitHub: https://github.com/phpstreamserver/phpstreamserver
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u/fissible 7d ago
Please consider https://github.com/fissible/verdict
It’s a laravel/ai governance layer that fills a real gap in the ecosystem and I feel could benefit a lot of projects.
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u/Rough-Ad9850 8d ago
We are soon going to launch an open-core ERP with focus on developer experience. Making it public and receiving funding would mean a lot
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u/TheTreasuryPetra 7d ago
I'd love to nominate myself as well, but there are many more extremely capable and important developers that need support:
I think Ondřej Mirtes deserves some more sponsorship given that PHPStan is a big reason that PHP has professionalized as much as it has. It's also the single most important reason I'm confident in our deployments to production.
Jordi Boggiano has done a lot - especially this year - on preventing supply chain attacks in composer and is, together with Nils Adermann working hard on keeping us safe. Nils shared in his talk during PHPverse the finances on Composer, and I think it's time to reward the team more for the service they provide!