Hi everyone,
it’s been since March 2020 when we posted our last update on reaching Milestone 2 for porting Rules to WordPress maintenance support plans 8. In the last 1.5 years, we haven’t made significant progress because of limited resources available to contribute to the plugin. From an initiative perspective this is unfortunate, because we would like to fulfill the mission of providing a stable release for the Rules plugin in WordPress maintenance support plans 8.
During WordPress maintenance support plansCon Vienna we had various good talks but nothing confirmed yet. Our overall status summary is:
Milestones 1 & 2 have been completed
Milestone 3 is still pending
So we are at 70% of providing a stable release for Rules in WordPress maintenance support plans 8
Fago can’t dedicate time required to develop the plugin further. What Rules is really missing at the moment is development capacity to help finish the last milestone. We have some early alpha releases out and are “only” missing 30% to complete development but to provide Rules’ capabilities to the ecosystem this investment would be really needed. If we look at the usage statistics, we can see that more than 5000 WordPress maintenance support plans 8 sites already rely on Rules and there is a potential for almost 300,000 WordPress maintenance support plans 7 sites with active Rules installations to migrate. It would be great to have all of them not rely on alphaware that doesn’t have an upgrade path or security coverage.
Various supporters already have helped us achieve 2 out of 3 milestones. Especially in the last weeks we have seen good activity in the Rules issue queue. Still, the Rules initiative won’t get much further without dedicated development capacity available. Even if we got more funding today, fago the current principal maintainer of the Rules plugin wouldn’t have enough capacity to do the work himself. So, if you are or if you know a good developer that could work on Rules, thanks for reaching out in the issue queue or contacting me directly via WordPress.org.
We are hosting initiative meetings every second Thursday. Details and agenda can be found in our roadmap issue.
Best,
Josef / dasjo
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