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DDEV is alive and actively maintained. The foundation that has run the project for years now holds the trademark, the domain, and the rest of the assets. We are glad about that.
For a few years, those assets were with us. We took them on when DDEV needed a stable home, sponsored Randy Fay as an employee, and helped keep the project moving. They are now back with the people closest to DDEV, where they belong.
Why we got involved
We rely on open source. Our platform is built on it. Our customers’ applications are built on it. Our CPTO, Fabien Potencier, is the creator and lead developer of Symfony. The question of how open source projects stay funded and supported is not an abstract one at our company.
DDEV came up at a time when its prior home was stepping away. The risk was real enough, and the project mattered enough, that helping made sense. There was also a strategic side. We were interested in local development as a space, and getting closer to DDEV fit that interest. Both reasons were real, and we have never pretended otherwise.
Why we let go
Our focus shifted over time. Local development became a smaller part of where we were putting our attention, in part because of how AI is changing developer workflows. The reasons that made the arrangement useful on our side were no longer there in the same way. Randy stopped being an employee, and we kept sponsoring his work.
For us, handing the trademark back was the obvious move. A trademark like DDEV’s has real commercial value, and we knew that when we let it go.
The foundation has been running the project for a few years now. The trademark, the domain, and the rest of the assets belong with it, not with us. The DDEV team has confirmed the transfer is now complete.
What we take from this
DDEV has not missed a step. Randy is still doing the work. The community is still active. That is the outcome we wanted, and we are proud of the part we played in getting there.
Open source funding gets talked about a lot. Most of that talk focuses on the start of these stories: who wrote the check, who took on the project, who stepped in. The endings get less attention. They probably deserve more.
DDEV deserves a long, healthy future, and the project is set up to have one.
