How to support Caldera Forms going forward
At the Manchester Sprint we were able to work to get a new build of Caldera Forms working that supports php 8.x (8.0-8.1 for certain).
@jaapjansma has committed to organizing a call in the new year about the progress.
Some considerations to review:
- Should we look to release to the WP Repository? We'd need to have ownership transferred to "Us" which means we must define who we are and who will support the plugin
- Caldera had many add-on plugins. I have already found php 8.x issues in the payment processors, I suspect we will find issues in other add-ons as they were not created to be php 8.x compatible. What is our stance on these?
- There are at least two know WP --> CiviCRM integrations, will these be maintained?
- How do we get sufficient testing considering that there are many implementations that utilize bespoke code and old code to ensure we have a stable plugin base and are not potentially breaking production sites
Please add to this issue. I'd like us to review all potential risks and benefits of continuing to support Caldera Forms.
Thanks to @simon.hermann and @kainuk for all their work to get us to this point.