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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Future stability of PHP?
From: php@sewell.info (Matthew Sewell)

What's meaningful in this sense?

I have a budget for supporting open source projects (back to my money v =
time point) and a percentage of that is for the PHP Foundation. I'd =
happily pay LTS fees we pay elsewhere (even sometimes as a safety net) =
to the Foundation but believe that the money we give to projects is just =
that, a donation that the project can use as it sees fit, rather than =
the purchasing of a service as we do commercially.

Best wishes,

Matt

> On 11 Apr 2023, at 09:56, Marco Pivetta <ocramius@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I'm also curious to hear whether any participants in this thread =
do/did
> support the PHP foundation in any tangible way :D
>=20
> If you treat it like an LTS provider, perhaps it's time to pay up the =
LTS
> support fees?
>=20
> Marco Pivetta
>=20
> https://mastodon.social/@ocramius
>=20
> https://ocramius.github.io/
>=20
>=20
> On Tue, 11 Apr 2023 at 10:40, Alex Wells <autaut03@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Apr 11, 2023 at 6:10=E2=80=AFAM Deleu <deleugyn@gmail.com> =
wrote:
>>=20
>>> I don't want to use those weird stuff, but I'm
>>> doing the best I can to replace every single line of old code that =
has
>> been
>>> written in an era that "best practices for PHP development" were not =
what
>>> you and I know today.
>>>=20
>>=20
>> I still do not understand why you're expecting the whole PHP project =
to put
>> in enormous efforts to keep the backwards compatibility and solve =
your
>> problems (temporarily) instead of you doing so. What's stopping you =
from
>> using the last supported PHP version by that codebase and fixing or, =
worst
>> case scenario, rewriting it if you wish, while on that (non latest) =
PHP
>> version? What causes the desperation to update to the latest PHP? Is =
it new
>> features or security fixes, or both?
>>=20