PHPWord is looking for a new maintainer

[Progi1984]

@RomanSyroeshko has done a very good job in PHPWord. But it decided to discover new horizons.

Actually, @MarkBaker work on PHPExcel / PhpSpreadsheet, and me I work on PhpPresentation.

So we are looking for a maintainer / lead dev for PHPWord.

Its work :

• Review all pull requests
• Improve code quality
• Fix bugs... all bugs !!!
• Optimize
• Add features

May be some old developers : @ivanlanin or @gabrielbull would be interested.
We would study any propositions.

[samael205]

Here a new interested. But I do not know anything about the library. It would be more to learn to program better in PHP. To work on weekends

[Progi1984]

@samael205 Can you contact me in mail ?

[samael205]

@Progi1984 I send to you an mail!

[juch]

@Progi1984 hi there, if you're interested i can manage current Pull Request @ issues but nothing more as i haven't enough time

[Progi1984]

@juch We are looking for a maintainer for long term :) so he needs to have enough time.

[ctrlaltca]

@Progi1984 I can help with existing issues and PRs, but i don't have enough experience with PHPWord at the moment to say i can be a maintainer for a long term.
Maybe having a small team of people taking care of the major issues while you can find a new maintainer is a good idea, instead of letting it stagnate with blocking bugs like composer being currently broken.

[msphn]

I would like to support this project as well. I'm experienced with PHP word in several projects.

[Progi1984]

@ctrlaltca I prefer having a maintainer for a long term which manage differents contributions & contributors. That permits to have a direction to the project.

@cookiekiller I just sent you a mail.

[ntiyiso-rikhotso]

I am interested in doing that, can I send my email address?

[Progi1984]

@trumind Yeap, you can send me an email.

[gabrielkolbe]

Hi, I am interested in help maintaining PHPWord, you can view my skill set and proficiency and contact me and view my online CV at http://www.skillbooker.com/online/cv/gabrielk
gkolbe a-t gmail d-o-t come

[rsmalc]

What is a current status of maintain this package? Who is handling pull request till now?

[Progi1984]

@gabrielkolbe Hi, Firstly, thank you for being interested by this project.

Before becoming the maintainer of PHPWord, we need to "test" you for this position.

How ?

Simply : you will do what a maintainer make... Answer tickets, valid PR, create PR for fixing tickets, answer questions on StackOverflow, answer questions on Gitter, improve documentation and unit tests, etc...
You must have one direction : quality of the project is very important.
Why ?

• Have a good documentation and you will have fewer questions
• Have a good unit test and you will have fewer issues
• Have good samples and users will have a best quickstart

You can send me mails for any question when you want

For some time, you will mention me for closing a ticket or valid a PR.
After this time, if we are ok and you are ok, I will give you the right in Github.

Why we do that ? Simply because a lot of people gave up very early at this stage .

@rsmalc At the moment, the package is not maintained, because we are looking for a maintainer (for long term). Mark Baker cares of PhpSpreadsheet, and I care of PhpPresentation.

[Progi1984]

Congratulations, @troosan :)