2025 review blog, fixes #494

[rfay]

The Issue

• Blog: 2025 review #494

Early draft.

Rendered at https://pr-500.ddev-com-fork-previews.pages.dev/blog/2025-review

TODO

• Quotes from https://www.ironstar.io/devsurvey25/#almost-everybody-loves-ddev
• More emphasis on the critical nature of the community contributions (add-ons, key improvements)
• DDEV is open-source, community contributions are welcome in every corner. This year ... rpkoller, etc. Link to community trainings, etc.
• More emphasis on quickstart tests, credit to rpkoller
• Discussion of good and bad of AI usage
• Re-check statistics. They seem questionable. More commits; should mostly equal PRs pulled.
• Newsletter with link
• Compare accomplishments to 2025 goals
• Review Tyler36 suggestions on other blog, December 2025 newsletter #486 (comment)
• Add omit-hostname-by-default info

Wish-it-had-been better

• Applied for Google SoC got turned down
• Got one community funded item on TYPO3 but all others rejected, not trying now. Program seems to be going in a direction not suitable for DDEV
• Applied for Google Security training program, made finalist, didn't get accepted, but they said we'd be automatic finalists next time, but never heard from them again.
• Confused about why organizations like TYPO3 Association and Drupal Association don't contribute.
• Confused about why so few agencies contribute
• I (Randy) wonder if I'm too aggressive with solving people's problems. Maybe they feel intimidated. Sometimes people just go away.

Documentation Improvements

• Added Claude Code for Web environment configuration guide (#7838)
• Migrated Vite setup documentation into DDEV docs (#7625)
• Updated Docker connection failure explanations (#7833)
• Added AGENTS.md with AI agent development guidelines (#7659)
• Platform.sh to Upsun name change updates (#7673)

Testing Enhancements

• Improved quickstart tests across multiple frameworks
• Added CI tests for ddev-hostname with passwordless sudo (#7855)
• Enhanced test reliability for Pantheon, TYPO3, Magento 2, and other CMSs
• Fixed intermittent test failures across the board
• Added disk cleanup before running tests (#7783)

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[stasadev]

It would be clearer to split the v1.25.0 changes into separate sections, listing everything together makes it harder to scan.