The PHP Foundation operates with a structured governance model designed to ensure transparency, accountability, and effective stewardship of resources dedicated to the PHP language.
Our governance structure consists of four key entities:
The Board of Directors meets monthly and makes decisions by consensus when possible, moving to formal votes when needed. All board members and staff are expected to abide by the Code of Conduct.
To promote transparency, we operate as a collective on the Open Collective platform, through which we manage activities such as selection and financing of PHP core developers. The Foundation operates through Open Source Collective as its fiscal host.
Important: The Request for Comments (RFC) process is not affiliated with the PHP Foundation. Language decisions remain the matter of the PHP Internals community.
Learn more about our governance model.
The primary task of the PHP Foundation is to fund developers to work on PHP. Funds collected through the Open Collective platform may be used in the first place to engage the services of PHP developers to further advance the development and maintenance of the language.
The current Request for Comments (RFC) is not affiliated to the PHP Foundation, and the language decisions are the matter of the PHP Internals community.
We established the following timeline for team review.
And in 2025 we start the cycle again.