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> unpaid volunteers

"at PhpStorm, we are fans of Nikita’s work. We always supported the Open Source, and this felt like a new opportunity – so here we are! Nikita will continue contributing awesome features to PHP, and together we will experiment on what is possible in the realm of language tooling."

~ https://blog.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/2019/01/nikita-popov-joi...

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FWIW, the two people who are paid to work on PHP (Dmitry and myself) both only work on the PHP implementation and not other parts of the project (infra, websites etc). The infrastructure is maintained entirely by volunteers.

I am personally not qualified to do infrastructure maintenance, knowing next to nothing on the topic.

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