DDEV Advisory Group Meeting 2026-07-01

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Meeting time: 2026-07-01, 8am US MT, 4pm CET, here's your time: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=DDEV+Advisory+Group&iso=20260701T08&p1=5472&ah=1

Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7315692237?pwd=RHR6NUkwb0g5WXIzS2NOcXRucCthZz09

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Next meeting: Sept 2 (First Wednesday every 2 months)

Agenda

• Turn on recording, turn on AI note-taker (Zoom)
• v1.25.3 release this week, overview by Stas
• Perks for $100+ donors (coder.ddev.com + diffy for a year)
• ddev.com support-ddev updates: feat(sponsor): replace support-ddev page with sponsor page ddev.com#655 - https://20260622-bmartinez-ddev-supp.ddev-com-front-end.pages.dev/support-ddev/ - Review/comments welcome
• Coder.ddev.com status and progress, reports from users
• First official board meeting happened
• DDEV Foundation bookkeeping: Move to Quickbooks Online Plus. Both Harvest (invoicing) and Waveapps (bookkeeping) limited to one user, and dropped some free features. Via nonprofit setup with TechSoup we get Quickbooks online quite inexpensively.

Financials and planning

Financial Summary:

• Randy and Stas got paid their discounted invoices this month again!
• We have actually hit 84% of support goal!

Reports:

DDEV Foundation Balance Sheet 2026-06-30-17_00.pdf
DDEV Foundation Profit and Loss 2026-06-30-16_59.pdf

Anything on anybody's mind!

Recording

https://youtu.be/jEG0XqcDFBA

AI-generated Meeting Notes

Key Outcomes

The meeting covered the upcoming v1.25.3 release (expected Thursday or Friday), which includes over 100 PRs with significant improvements to startup/stop speed, Docker Compose integration, and MariaDB support. The DDEV Foundation held its first official board meeting and confirmed quarterly cadence going forward. Sponsor perks and funding sustainability were discussed, along with a notable drop in Discord/Slack engagement attributed to AI tool adoption.

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Decisions Made

• v1.25.3 release targeted for Thursday or Friday
• Board meetings to occur quarterly going forward
• Bookkeeping migration: switching from Wave Apps (free plan degraded) to QuickBooks Online; also migrating invoicing away from Harvest [Citation]
• DDEV trademarks officially transferred to the DDEV Foundation from Upsun [Citation]

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Completed / Shipped

• Docker Compose binary replaced with bundled API integration — reduces downloads, improves start/stop speed; result of ~1 year of incremental work by Stas
• MariaDB 12.3 (next LTS) support added
• Podman on macOS now has explicit support with automated testing (note: privileged ports 80/443 unavailable) [Citation]
• Docker rootless support improved — no longer requires Mutagen workaround; Apache-as-root issue resolved [Citation]
• Node.js multi-version support via n (in addition to NVM add-on) [Citation]
• Joomla received an official DDEV explicit integration via community PR [Citation]
• First official DDEV Foundation board meeting held [Citation]

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Sponsor Perks (Featured Sponsors / $100+/month)

• coder.ddev.com — cloud-hosted DDEV instances (dockerized VMs); available to all sponsor org members and anyone who requests access for contribution events [Citation][Citation]
• Diffie — free 1-year visual regression testing service offered to major sponsors [Citation]
• Randy actively sending individual (non-mass) emails to sponsors to communicate these perks [Citation]

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Financials

• Current bank balance ~$7,000 after payroll; target buffer is ~$6,000 [Citation]
• Possible upcoming hardware spend: ~$1,000 for additional Mac Mini or Mini PC due to disk space constraints from new Podman rootless testing [Citation]
• Concern raised: many agencies using DDEV still not contributing at even $100/month [Citation]

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Open Questions / Risks

• Apple Containers (and Microsoft's new container approach) being tracked; current limitation is Apple's implementation doesn't support existing Docker workflows Allow Mac users to use Apple native containerization #7372
• Windows 11 cannot be legitimately licensed for internet-facing test machines; cloud Mac hosting costs ~$100–200/month vs. ~$600–700 one-time hardware purchase [Citation]
• Significant drop in Discord/Slack questions observed — attributed to users asking AI tools instead; team stressed the value of direct community questions for product insight [Citation][Citation]

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Action Items

• Randy: Publish article on running Claude via tmux/remote control inside coder.ddev.com instances [Citation]
• Randy: Write blog post encouraging users to share AI-assisted findings in Discord/Slack [Citation]
• Randy: Review to-dos from first DDEV Foundation board meeting [Citation]
• Randy: Complete individual sponsor outreach emails explaining perks [Citation]
• Randy/Stas: Finalize and publish v1.25.3 release blog (warranting full post despite being a point release) [Citation]
• Randy: Complete migration to QuickBooks Online; seeking bookkeeping help [Citation]
• Bernardo (mentioned): Finalize updated "Support DDEV" page PR — community feedback requested [Citation]
• Mathias: Raise DDEV visibility at Open Website Alliance leadership meeting (Joomla, Drupal, TYPO3, WordPress) [Citation]

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Announcements

• DDEV stickers sent to Benny for distribution at events; QR code on stickers suggested for direct contribution links [Citation]
• Open source recognized at the United Nations as essential infrastructure; described informally as "the seventh official language of the UN" by Mathias [Citation]
• Typing ddev in terminal now surfaces a terminal UI — alternative to GUI wrappers [Citation]
• DDEV HEAD users (e.g., Ralph Collard) provide critical real-world testing value; encouraged for broader adoption [Citation]