Good comment 
But while I am grateful for Paulās work, I am not pleased with (to put it very lightly!) his behavior. It is a team effort - and if you donāt get your way, donāt whine about it in public. It is understandable that team members come and go and have their differences.Things like that happens. Misbehaving is not alright, though.
I am still confident about Yii and itās future. I canāt really off the top of my head point to anything that is as befittingly good as Yii.
Weāre working on it. First step is setting up a foundation with the purpose or funding distribution that disallows spending on anything but OpenSource or Yii needs. It takes time but moves forward.
I would say the same about your behavior. As an active moderator on the official forum of Yii framework, you should really think twice before writing anything - some of your comments may do more damage to Yii Community than one rant of a former core member.
Thatās great to read that. I hope all goes well and soon a solution will be found.
Calm down, guys Weāre here to build stuff we use together so letās focus on it keeping conversation constructive.
There were difficulties and some frustration in the core team but Yii went over it, unfortunately losing Paul who, no doubt, deserves his place in community hall of fame for his contributions. I hope heāll contribute again one day but currently itās not likely.
I sincerely hope that he will - his contributions are great
Yes, youāre right. *crawls back into hole* 
I am kind of āshockedā of Paulās statement. In the past Iāve never felt that Yii is a slowly dying framework or a framework that should not be used for new projects. In fact I am actively trying to promote the framework in our company (with some success).
In my opinion Yii it still the very best framework (that I know) in terms of documentation and flexibility. I also love the explicitness of the Yii that I miss in other frameworks. Iāve once looked into Laravel but quickly decided to stay with Yii (although that was many years ago).
Yii still feels like a āhealthyā framework to me. In fact, Iāve never waited for more than one hour or so for an initial feedback on a new Github issue regarding the framework or the app (thanks to samdark).
Bottom line: I am very thankful for every maintainer of Yii and the community as whole. And I will going to continue to use Yii for private projects for the reasons described above.
I have built a lot of projects on Yii and also Yii2. So I am very thankful for all the core team and contributors.
Iām currently putting in $5 on Patreon, I know itās small quantity but I am willing to contribute more if that helps the development.
Let me know how the foundation goes and I think you should set some goals and ask more individuals and companies to collaborate either with money or commits. Iām sure there are a lot of people who will want to give a hand one way or another.
relax, someday yii2 will die anyway (yii1 still lives btw)ā¦ just be ready for yii3 
Why on Yiiās official site is there no section to attract sponsorship?
itās truly pity, that things with Paul turned out so badly. He was/is one of the most productive core developers for a long time. Paulās article had a little of unethical flavor and was clearly written out due to long-standing frustration with some subjective expectations which did not come true. His intentions were, however, meant for the good of the thing he cared about and for the benefit of the community. Itās truly a pity that core team has not resolved the issue to mutual satisfaction.
Because foundation isnāt ready yet and it will be against transparency to do it improperly.
Paul Who wrote that? Sorry for being sarcastic here, but Paulās way of communicating has been problematic for a very long time. While I also value his technical contributions, the way of talking to people was often rude, offensive and self-opinionated.
I am not surprised about such a reaction when things were not going the way he wanted to.
But Yii is far from dying. So Iāll read this as: He just recommended to move on to Yii 3. 
So, the question simply boils down to one simple question: Is Yii slowly dying? It seems to me that it lacks the resources to boost its development rate.
Honestly speaking, I share the same worry with @GoofyX, although Iāve been and will be a convinced fan of Yii framework.
I never question the excellent knowledge and skills of the core team. But what about the time they can spend on Yii 3? It looks to me a little shorter than expected. Itās no oneās fault, of course, but it can really matter. I think we should do something in this respect.
Personally Iām fairly content with the current version of Yii 2 and I can patiently wait for Yii 3 to be finally released. It is mainly because Iām not in the midst of the fast moving current trends of web application development. Yeah, I confess that Iām a bit old fashioned 
Anyway, itās great to hear the voices of you, the core team members and the fellow people who share the love of this straightforward solid practical āhealthyā (Ā© @Coksnuss) framework.
Weāre doing something already. As I said, foundation is in the progress. That potentially would allow community members to spend time on Yii instead doing commercial projects for a living or at least moving commercial projects to part-time mode allocating half of the day for Yii needs. That means significantly more time.
Meanwhile, Iāve extended GitHub permissions to allow more community members to triage issues and manage things. @machour is doing wonders this week closing issues and pushing towards releases. Also poking me with important stuff (love it!).
if we are going to start a project, which should we develop with?
Yii2 or Yii3.
Any advise? Thanks.
Since Yii3 is not even in beta, you would choose Yii2
Hi guys. Tell me, what awaits us in Yii3? For some reason, I was inclined to think that the coming changes would affect the framework in cooperation in the bootstrap 4 ā¦ many people are waiting for this. Can anyone help? I could join the development of the widgets and etc.
Bootstrap 4 extension exists for both Yii 2 and Yii 3:
2.0 one is about to be released. A few issues left. If you want to help you can check these: https://github.com/yiisoft/yii2-bootstrap4/issues. Also checking the extension overall with dev-master@dev version constraint would help.