Any thoughts on bringing league/fractal package across to here?

[specialtactics]

Hello all

There is a package which is commonly used by the API developers community of Laravel which is league/fractal. Unfortunately that project hasn't been updated in a bit over 2 years, and I haven't been able to get in touch with the person who's maintaining it. I am still trying to reach out to others in the league organisation, but failing that - I am wondering what you guys think about bringing that repository here for maintenance?

I am happy to take the lead, although I am hoping there is not a huge amount of work involved in that.
On a sidenote, should we set up maybe a slack or discord or something to discuss matters in general?

[Messhias]

Hello all

There is a package that is commonly used by the API developers community of Laravel which is league/fractal. Unfortunately, that project hasn't been updated in a bit over 2 years, and I haven't been able to get in touch with the person who's maintaining it. I am still trying to reach out to others in the league organization, but failing that, I wonder what you guys think about bringing that repository here for maintenance.

I am happy to take the lead, although I am hoping there is not a huge amount of work involved in that. On a side note, should we set up maybe a Slack or Discord or something to discuss matters in general?

For me it's amazing, this is the reason I created this organization, to get all the packages that people usually abandon or don't update and keep it updated with what developers are (of course this includes myself). This is not only for PHP, if you want to bring any other package it's very welcome.

About the discord/slack channel, I'm in favor of it, but for most of the people who come here it's not commonly active, I'll think about that and if I create it I'll share the invite with everyone.

[specialtactics]

Just a bit of an update, I got in touch with Frank who manages flysystem, unfortunately he can't help me in this instance, as it seems like there's no established process for community members to get involved in the league community packages, so I went ahead to fork fractal here.

I have some relatively simple ideas for improvements, along with usual updating of CI and tests, and I will check other forks to see if there's any useful changes to bring across, otherwise I'll let people know on the original package that they can come here and help out to maintain if they are interested, to try and grow the community of contributors here.

[Messhias]

Sounds good. Today I'll check the availability for create discord for us.

[specialtactics]

Hey, just an update, I'm trying to add this repo to packagist, but I am getting this typical error message:

The vendor name "php-open-source-saver" was already claimed by someone else on Packagist.org. You may ask them to add your package and give you maintainership access. If they add you as a maintainer on any package in that vendor namespace, you will then be able to add new packages in that namespace. The packages already in that vendor namespace can be found at [php-open-source-saver](https://packagist.org/packages/php-open-source-saver/).If those packages belong to you but were submitted by someone else, you can [contact us](mailto:[email protected]) to resolve the issue.

I've had this happen before in other orgs, but I can't for the life of me remember the solution. Can someone (probably whoever added jwt-auth) also please add this?

https://github.com/PHP-Open-Source-Saver/fractal

Thanks

Edit 2: I think I figured it out, it's actually done on packagist not github, but it must be done by existing maintainers:

To add someone as a maintainer of a package (or an entire vendor namespace) on Packagist, you need to do the following (as the current owner/maintainer):

    Log in to Packagist
        Make sure you’re signed in with the Packagist account that already has ownership/maintainership of the package or vendor namespace.

    Open the package page
        Go to [Packagist.org](https://packagist.org/) and search for the package under the vendor (e.g., php-open-source-saver/<package>).
        Click on the package name to open its detail page.

    Go to the Maintainers section
        On the right-hand side (or near the top, depending on the layout), look for a section labeled “Maintainers” or an “Edit” / “Manage” button.
        Click “Manage maintainers” or the equivalent link.

    Add the new maintainer
        In the Add Maintainer field, enter the Packagist username of the person you want to add (this is the username they use to log in to Packagist, not their GitHub username, unless they’re the same).
        Click Add or Submit. You might get a success message or see the new maintainer added to the list.

    Confirm they’re listed
        Make sure the newly added user appears in the Maintainers list. If not, re-check spelling or confirm that the user has an active Packagist account.

Right now its @Messhias and @eschricker - can you of you please do that?

Thanks!

[Messhias]

Hi. Sorry for the late reply.

I'll fork it today for us and you can start add your improvements and open your merge requests for us analise it.

Thank you for helping us keep the packages alive.

[Messhias]

I'm trying to to do that for you but it's seems the @eschricker it's the only owner of the organization, @eschricker can you make as owner as well?

The problem it's my only role is member.

[specialtactics]

No need to fork, I already have (https://github.com/PHP-Open-Source-Saver/fractal).

I am not an expert on how packagist works I must admit, I was under the impression any current maintainer can add maintainers.

I think I'll have a go at setting up a discord as well, it will be easier to discuss there maybe.

[specialtactics]

Also, I have created the discord, if you guys want to join up https://discord.gg/r38HB4NP