blog: DDEV's commitment to sustainability

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We were recently reminded of what can happen when an open-source community loses its maintainer, to death or many other things. Read about how the Vim community lost its maintainer and what they had to do to move forward.

In DDEV we've been working for years to make sure that we have a sustainable community that can outlive Randy or Stas (or let them go if they need to go).

• We have two fully-trained and fully-privileged maintainers, not just one. (But we'd like to have more!)
• We have worked hard to make sure that communication, accounts, etc. are available to all maintainers.
• We've been working hard to make sure that the project has full-time paid maintainers, because it's at least two full-time jobs, in addition to all that the community adds.
• We are working on improving community governance (note issue)
• Our financial organization is a recognized charitable foundation, the DDEV Foundation, and has US 501(c)(3) nonprofit status. (link to foundation page)
• The DDEV Foundation has its own bank account, and more than one person has access to the account.

Edit as needed.