A question for all of Bolt's contributors

[markkasaboski]

Hello everyone,

I came across Bolt recently as I was looking for a Symfony based CMS for a project that I'm starting. It was obvious at first that momentum had stopped on this repo, but at the time I wasn't sure why. I started playing with Bolt anyway. It was until yesterday that I learned of Bob's passing.

So my question to everyone is: Is anyone interesting in keeping Bolt going? Has anyone here forked and kept it moving? I did a quick search, but didn't find anything. I'd be interesting in helping it to move forward. Is anyone else interested? I'm sure Bob would want it to carry on.

Thanks.

[saling-star]

I think we all, people using Bolt, are waiting for keeping it alive !
It becomes urgent to adapt Bolt to Symfony last release since mainenance of version 5.4 will end shortly.
For Bolt 5.2 :
Package sensio/framework-extra-bundle is abandoned, you should avoid using it. Use Symfony instead.
Package symfony/web-server-bundle is abandoned, you should avoid using it. No replacement was suggested.
Package tightenco/collect is abandoned, you should avoid using it. Use illuminate/collections instead.

Does anyone know how to update the deprecated packages ? Wil it be enought for Symfony 7 ?

[cervelas]

Hello Everyone !

As everyone here, i love Bolt for it's simplicity and it's power. I use it on a few website, it is very reliable. (i've 2 installs still on bolt 3.7!)
I think this project deserve at least a 5.2 maintenance release.

The big issue is that the PR's tests requirements are not pass anymore due thoses deprecations.

I'm willing to help, i'm not a symfony expert, but i can create a PR to update the Core regarding all thoses composer warnings:

Package sensio/framework-extra-bundle is abandoned, you should avoid using it. Use Symfony instead.
Package symfony/web-server-bundle is abandoned, you should avoid using it. No replacement was suggested.
Package tightenco/collect is abandoned, you should avoid using it. Use illuminate/collections instead.
Package webmozart/path-util is abandoned, you should avoid using it. Use symfony/filesystem instead.

This will obviously require refactoring of the code using thoses libs.

The next steps would be to updates the others projects as needed (e.g. bolt/article, bolt/assets, etc...), then update to Symfony 7, then make a 5.2 release.

Who is willing to help with that ? i'm throwing a bottle, maybe @bobvandevijver @nestordedios @Sander-Hub ?

Bonus question, who can update the PR settings ? can anyone have admin access to this project on github ?

Cheers,
C

[bobvandevijver]

While I would love helping with this project (I currently have 4 projects running on it, 5.2.0-rc.1), I'm afraid I currently do not have the time to commit to that 😞