I wanted to jump back into the blog though and talk about something inspired by a post over on the Symfony blog about giving thanks. In the Symfony blog post they share a Composer plugin – Thanks – that makes it simple to show your appreciation to those packages you’re currently using in your applications. Write a blog post about the package and how you use it to share with others. Open an issue on the project’s Github/Bitbucket repository with a quick “Thanks” to everyone involved. There’s plenty of other ways that you can support and thank the authors and maintainers of your favorite packages.