opensource - Private Packagist

The Reality of Funding Open Source

As the founder of Packagist Conductors, a small company with just eight employees, I've had a front-row seat to one of the most pressing challenges in software development today: sustainable open source funding. We found our own way to fund a major open source project, and managed to

opensource

Private Packagist is joining the Open Source Pledge

We're joining the Open Source Pledge because our business is built on and with open-source software. We will spend at least $2,000 per full-time developer on open-source projects and maintainers. Sentry launched this initiative after a $500,000 distribution across their open-source dependencies, and others followed. Sustainability

composer

Shutting down Packagist.org support for Composer 1.x

Composer 1.x has served the PHP community well, but with Composer 2.0 released four years ago in October 2020, it's time to move forward. As of today, more than 95% of Composer updates are using v2, benefiting from its significant improvements in performance, memory usage, and

security

Security Monitoring for Composer Projects

As of today Private Packagist [https://packagist.com] automatically keeps track of security vulnerabilities in your Composer project dependencies. When we notice you are using a vulnerable version of a dependency we'll alert you either by email, on Slack, on Microsoft Teams, or through a webhook of your

composer

Composer 2 Development Update

Back in September 2018 we started working on a 2.0 branch for Composer. It took us a while to get there as we refactored, trying to bake in all the things we learned maintaining the project since 2011. The funding from Private Packagist [https://packagist.com] subscriptions has provided

packagist.org

An Update on Packagist.org Hosting

As we announced a bit over a week ago, we recently did some heavy server maintenance on the packagist.org website. I wanted to share some more details about the current infrastructure behind the website and how we got there.