PHP, relied on by a huge number of websites around the world, is backed by a foundation with just one full-time employee!
According to an October 23 report by Reuters, PHP Foundation Executive Director Elizabeth Barron revealed the foundation’s actual staffing:
1. There is only one full-time employee: Barron herself.
2. The foundation also has 14 contractors, most of them part-time.
3. All board members are unpaid volunteers.
4. Operating expenses are funded mainly by donations and grants.
PHP has been around for about 30 years and may power as many as 70% of websites worldwide.
But the widespread adoption of AI is bringing another problem.
Over the past year, the number of code change proposals submitted to PHP has nearly doubled, but the number of people actively contributing hasn’t increased at the same rate.
This means that while AI has made software development more efficient, it has also left open-source maintainers with more code to review, test, and check for security issues.
Two major security vulnerabilities were found in PHP this week, bringing the issue into even sharper focus.
AI can speed up writing code, but who is responsible for checking the code AI writes?
According to an October 23 report by Reuters, PHP Foundation Executive Director Elizabeth Barron revealed the foundation’s actual staffing:
1. There is only one full-time employee: Barron herself.
2. The foundation also has 14 contractors, most of them part-time.
3. All board members are unpaid volunteers.
4. Operating expenses are funded mainly by donations and grants.
PHP has been around for about 30 years and may power as many as 70% of websites worldwide.
But the widespread adoption of AI is bringing another problem.
Over the past year, the number of code change proposals submitted to PHP has nearly doubled, but the number of people actively contributing hasn’t increased at the same rate.
This means that while AI has made software development more efficient, it has also left open-source maintainers with more code to review, test, and check for security issues.
Two major security vulnerabilities were found in PHP this week, bringing the issue into even sharper focus.
AI can speed up writing code, but who is responsible for checking the code AI writes?