2026-05-08T09:12:58-05:00 2023-04-06T08:49:52-05:00

I am happy to announce that the PHP Package Development Standards publication pds/composer-script-names has been released as stable at version 1.0.0....

2023-04-05T11:51:19-05:00

The PHP Package Development Standards (PDS) initiative researches the PHP package ecosystem to extract common practices existing in real packages. It rationalizes and refines those practices, then publishes them as PDS packages for reference by PHP p...

2017-04-11T09:32:50-05:00

Fabien has published his plans for the new Symfony 4 directory structure. Not that it matters much to anyone in Symfony-land, where I have no status that I’m aware of, but I am happy to see the changes described. Having said that, and recognizing t...

2017-01-31T08:56:04-06:00

I am proud to announce that the first PHP Package Development Standards publication, pds/skeleton, has been released as stable at version 1.0.0. This publication has been a great working effort. Everything from researching first a subset (and then th...

2017-01-12T10:08:34-06:00

I am excited to announce that pds/skeleton 1.0.0beta2 has been released. (The pds/skeleton publication describes a standard PHP package skeleton, as backed by research into the PHP package ecosystem.) Among other things, this release incorporates som...

2016-12-29T09:39:29-06:00

I am proud to announce the immediate availability of pds/skeleton 1.0.0-beta1 for inclusion in your PHP package. The pds/skeleton standard defines specific names for specific kinds of root-level directories in PHP packages. If you use all the directo...

2016-12-15T09:20:14-06:00

The new Package Development Standards initiative is proud to present its first publication, pds/skeleton (and the related research) for public review. If you are a package author, you are invited to post your comments and criticisms of the publicatio...