DDEV January 2025 Newsletter
Happy New Year DDEV Community!
Our most important news of the month is both bad and good, about Platform.sh change in funding of DDEV:
- Our lead sponsor, Platform.sh, has decided to reduce its sponsorship level.
- Platform.sh will also transfer to the DDEV Foundation the “DDEV” trademark and the domains that go with it.
- Platform.sh will continue sponsoring DDEV at a lower but still generous and critical financial level. You can read all about it in the change announcement blog.
- TL;DR: we need every organization and individual to step up their financial support in order to ensure DDEV’s future.
DDEV v1.24.1 was released with minor changes.
DDEV’s TYPO3 Community Budget Idea was accepted! TYPO3’s community budget process is an outstanding process for funding community ideas. We’ll be improving DDEV’s xhprof and xhgui even beyond where @tyler36 has already taken the DDEV xhgui add-on and incorporate it into core, and at completion the TYPO3 Association will fund the project for €7500, a fantastic contribution.
DDEV Notes and News
- DDEV Advisory Group Meeting. This month’s meeting is Wednesday, January 8, 2025, and is a critical discussion of our financial situation, budget, and plans based on recent news. Join us. If you’d like a calendar invitation instead of the meetup signup, just reply to this email.
- DDEV Database Support Improvements and MySQL 8.4 - read all about upstream improvements and performance improvements, maintenance improvements, and import measurement improvements.
- Changes in Platform.sh Funding of DDEV
- DDEV, solr, and platform.sh
- Joshuami blog on Drupal CMS (via DDEV)
- Testing Drupal 11 with Cypress and DDEV shows how to use @tyler36’s excellent Cypress add-on for DDEV. (The linked YouTube video is in Spanish.)
- Contao CMS docs show preferred DDEV approach
- DDEV Releases and announcements are now made on Bluesky as well as other social networks, but no longer on X/Twitter.
Funding DDEV and especially to help Maintainer Stas go full-time on DDEV: We need your help and your organization’s help! Let me know if you need help getting this into your 2025 budget! Our key financial goal is to fully fund @stasadev so he can work exclusively on DDEV. We’ve slipped back in recent months. We need about $3700/month in increased pledges from organizations and individuals. See Full information about supporting DDEV. We’re happy to invoice you, happy to do a call discussing this, and would love it if you’d include DDEV in your 2025 budgeting process. (Our current status: We receive about $3000/month, have been spending about $3000-$4000/month. Bank balance is about $8683, down from $9,300 last month.)
THANKS to all of you who are supporting DDEV’s path to sustainability and who have gotten your organizations to do so.
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Happy January from Randy Fay, DDEV Project Lead.