I reached out to Dawid directly about a month-and-a-half ago, but
unfortunately I received no response. I get the feeling the current
maintainer is either unable or unwilling to continue running the
project. I hope that I can be proven wrong and we get the project
restarted as-is.
With that said, is there any interest from anyone else in taking action
to see if we can petition to have a new maintainer for the project,
perhaps from among ourselves? I don't particular want it, I cannot even
program in Java, but I am devoted user of PDT and concerned for its
future, and would love to facilitate a process that kickstarts
development again. Sadly, there are few to no other alternatives that,
like PDT, are truly cross-platform, free-and-open-source, comprehensive
IDEs for PHP web development. VSCodium may have the chops, but it's not
a pleasant experience for me and I hate being tied to MS.
At a minimum, if the platform can be updated to support up through 8.2,
that'd be a huge step forward. I am willing to explore sponsoring
development in that direction, whether from myself (can't afford much)
or organizing a campaign and even hiring someone from Upwork or similar,
unless someone on the list wants to take a crack at it first.
So, basically, I'm proposing, if we have a compelling case to continue
development, to petition the Eclipse foundation to transfer or at least
open-up ownership of this project to someone who can lead it further down.
Alternatively, we can always fork it, but I'd rather exhaust all options
for the original project continue forward before forking and losing the
history we have with this project and its associated history.
Any thoughts? I hope I'm not the only one.
Sincerely,
Basil
On 12/2/22 9:17 AM, Alexander McKee wrote:
Hi Basil,
I think the main issue is that there is only one PDT developer, Dawid,
who is intermittently active. I tried to get involved, there's still a
PR open, but unfortunately it doesn't seem help is welcome.
I even sponsored Dawid using GitHub's sponsorship feature for a while.
I don't want to make it about Dawid, he's clearly done a lot of work
on PDT over the years but he is also evidently not working
consistently on PDT and the product is suffering as a result.
I wish he would work with other people to help enable more development
to take place.
I am using PHPStorm now but I wish I could use an open source product
like PDT.
Alex
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*From:* pdt-dev <pdt-dev-boun...@eclipse.org> on behalf of Basil
Mohamed Gohar via pdt-dev <pdt-dev@eclipse.org>
*Sent:* Thursday, 1 December 2022, 22:39
*To:* PDT Developers <pdt-dev@eclipse.org>
*Cc:* Basil Mohamed Gohar <basilgo...@hidayahtech.com>
*Subject:* [pdt-dev] Financial or other support to get PDT up to PHP
8.x support?
I'd like to offer to help get some kind of support, whether financial
or otherwise, to the PDT project in order to get development going
again, especially with regards to PHP 8.2 support, which is just about
to be released. As it stands now, PDT only supports up to 7.4.
Please let me know if there's some way that we can bring in support
from outside, whether through sponsors or development resources, and
if so, how best we can manage that.
I don't want to pressure the core developers, rather, I just want to
offer support. Sadly, I'm not fluent in Java so I don't think I can
contribute directly, else I would have long ago.
I hope this garners some support, because I love PDT as a tool and I
would love to keep using it, but there are key features in the latest
versions of PHP (such as the /match/ construct) that just aren't
recognized and are parsed as errors in PDT currently.
Sincerely,
Basil
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