Ongoing future maintenance for this great tool?

[rfay]

First, thanks for years of making this a great tool @glensc .

I'm in the process of incorporating this officially into DDEV because it's so useful (ddev/ddev#6894). We have already had an excellent add-on maintained by @tyler36.

In studying it though, I do note that it does not currently support higher than PHP 8.1, which goes EOL in a few months, and the xhgui/xhgui Docker image uses PHP 7.4. And there hasn't been activity for a year or more.

I just wanted to stop by and ask about the future of this project. Do you expect to keep maintaining it? Are there other candidate maintainers?

Thanks so much for your work on this and for your response.

[glensc]

If it's not declared dead it's not dead. As for all open source projects. Contributions are welcome.

Last I recall the framework (slim) update was rather difficult as framework itself got major refactor. Possibly further updates are not that difficult.

There's no plan (no time) from me themselves doing any updating.

[glensc]

As for intermediate steps:

1. I would drop the complicated release process. keep single main branch and git tags
2. try to update PHP as long as libraries, frameworks are compatible
3. try to update libraries
4. try to update PHP again, as libraries allow new versions

[rfay]

Thanks for checking in, and for years of amazing work.

[glensc]

docker image is built with php 8.3, remaining is bigger update of slim to 4.x:

• Bump slim/slim from 3.12.3 to 4.14.0 #547

[rfay]

I was remembering this and going to close it today! Wow!