I wanted to reach out to you proactively to share some news that will impact the income that you have been receiving as a lifter with Tidelift.

As you may know, we make decisions about how much to pay open source packages based on a number of factors but it is mostly grounded in usage by our current customers combined with strategic investments in areas where we predict usage by future customers.From time to time, we also make changes to where we allocate payments based on these criteria.

Unfortunately, the reality is that we haven’t had as much traction with enterprise app developers using PHP as we have with other ecosystems; our customers tend to build their applications with mostly Java, JavaScript, and Python with smaller amounts of C# and Go.

As a result, we will be reducing the income for PHP packages to a base level of $25/mo per package. This is more in line with other ecosystems where we have limited customer demand. These changes will go into effect with the next lifter payout on April 3rd.

I realize this may be unfortunate news for you, as this income has been steady over the last several years. If you have any questions for me, I’d be happy to answer them, and certainly as we see more customer demand for PHP within our customer and prospect pool, that will be accompanied by a corresponding increase in the income provided to PHP packages.

Thanks for all you do as a maintainer, and we hope to have better news with you down the road!

All best,

Jeremy
Co-founder and CTO
Tidelift