content: refresh maintainer funding and sustainability posts, for #661

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Cleanup for #661, covering the maintainer-funding cluster of posts. Three of these are checklist items on that issue; the other three are places the same stale claims surfaced during review.

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Page	What changed	Compare
lets-fund-stas-maintainer	Reframed and updated for 2026 (issue item)	live
upsun-thank-you-new-sponsors-needed	Update note: the funding gap got filled	live
sustainability-for-ddev	Governance goal marked delivered; financial snapshot de-staled (issue item)	live
expanding-ddev-maintainer-team	2023 funding figures and maintainer roster removed (issue item)	live
introducing-maintainer-stas	Update note that Stas has been full-time since 2024	live
about	One-line correction to when Stas went full-time	live

What was wrong

The central ask in lets-fund-stas-maintainer had already been met. The post asked readers to fund Stas so he could leave client work behind. He did, in 2024, and has been full-time since — but the role is only about 80% funded. The post is reframed around that: the community delivered the maintainer, the funding hasn't fully caught up. Also updated:

• "Platform.sh covers Randy's salary" — false since the 2025 funding change. Replaced with the Upsun sponsorship and trademark-transfer history.
• Sponsorship figures: ~$9,900/month, 83% of the $12,000/month goal, ~$2,000/month gap. The ask was rescaled from $3,000/month, and the sponsor multiples with it.
• Stas' commits: 211 → 600, and master → main.
• Maintenance examples refreshed from 2024 (PHP 8.4, PostgreSQL 16, MariaDB 11.4) to current, verified against pkg/nodeps in ddev/ddev: PHP 5.6–8.5, Drupal 12 support present, MariaDB 12.3 LTS, PostgreSQL 18, plus Buildx and Podman/rootless as container-churn examples.
• "Is your organization budgeting for 2025?" → 2027. Dropped the stale "$18,000 in the bank."

upsun-thank-you-new-sponsors-needed was the most misleading page on the site. This December 2025 appeal projected sponsorship dropping to about 53% of goal in January 2026. It recovered to 83% instead, so the live page was telling readers DDEV was half-funded. Added an update note recording that the community filled the gap — a good story that was going untold — and relabeled the /sponsor link, which still said "GitHub Sponsors" (see e49a310).

sustainability-for-ddev still listed the Board of Directors as pending. Both the "Areas to Improve" and "What Comes Next" sections described moving past the BDFL model as a goal with "a proposal in progress." That shipped in December 2025. Its "Current Financial Status" heading also presented June 2025 figures, including a bank balance, as current; that section now points at the live sources so it can't go stale again.

expanding-ddev-maintainer-team had the 2023 dollar figures, the $7,000/month goal, "about 50% of the way there," and a maintainer roster listing three people. Those sections are removed in favour of a pointer to /sponsor and the current funding post. The evergreen "What Do Maintainers Do?" and "Why Do We Want More Full-time Paid Maintainers?" sections are kept — five other posts cite this one for that argument, and /sponsor doesn't make it. Also corrected "No funding to the DDEV Foundation goes to Randy," which the 2025 change made false.

Notes for the reviewer

• Nothing was deleted, so no redirects are needed and no inbound links broke. In particular the open-source-pledge → lets-fund-stas-maintainer link flagged on Blog review: currency and correctness (remove/improve list) #661 still resolves.
• Dated archives were deliberately left alone — 2023-review, 2025-plans, 2025-review, and the newsletters all contain part-time-Stas and maintainer-roster references that are correct as history.
• The Simon Gilli mention in introducing-maintainer-stas is untouched. It was accurate in 2023, and per 2025-plans we've lost contact with him; a present-tense correction there would mean editorializing about that in a post that isn't about him. His entry in the expanding-ddev-maintainer-team roster went away with that whole section rather than being singled out.
• Stas' self-introduction in introducing-maintainer-stas is left in his own words, including the 2023 description of his day job. The update note at the top carries the correction instead.
• Two things I couldn't source, both left out rather than guessed: a current bank balance, and how Foundation finance work now divides between Randy and Treasurer Mike Anello. sustainability-for-ddev still assigns financial reporting, regulatory filings, and marketing to Randy alone.
• The summary frontmatter on expanding-ddev-maintainer-team changed, since "how do the finances work?" no longer describes it. That's visible in blog listings and RSS.

Verified with ddev prettier, ddev textlint, and a full ddev npm run build (216 pages); every relative markdown link was confirmed to resolve in the built HTML.

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