Posts by rachelandrew

Hi all, just wanted to add my thanks. I know we have been silent for ages on this but we weren't at a point where we could discuss things publicly. I'm confident that the new owners will take the product forward and are committed to supporting existing customers and licenses, which is exactly what we wanted and have been working to ensure.

I'm mostly documenting the web over at MDN these days and working on CSS-related things so I'm sure I'll see some of you online!

As soon as we're in a position to update you then we will post here.

If we had news to share then we would share it. We aren't at a point where we can right now, so we haven't. You can rest assured that as soon as we can we will.

We can keep posting "no news yet", but that's just going to make noise. So assume no news yet until news is posted

Sorry - the original post had been spammed so I didn't see it until the second post.

Hi all.

Firstly, I'm really sorry about the radio silence. As Drew inferred in an earlier post I've not been involved in Perch (other than the fact I deal with the business admin and the servers) for some time. The product doesn't make enough money to justify two people working on it.

As things stand there is not active development happening with Perch. I believe there are issues with Shop and the SCA requirements, Shop has never had enough usage to really justify a lot of work to implement these things. When we launched it we hoped it would drive take-up of Runway but that hasn't really been the case, and making it a paid add-on would not have made a lot of difference. So I don't think developing that further is something that is likely to happen in the near term.

In terms of the core product, if there are compat issues with newer versions of PHP I'd be keen to find out what they are in order that people don't run into those, as that seems like something I could get fixed. The core products, Perch and Runway, are very stable and there is no reason why people shouldn't be using those for as long as they want a PHP based CMS, however things like Shop require constant changes to keep up with legislation, and that's not something I'm going to be able to invest time in. My suggestion is that we move those to GitHub under the same account as the docs (they currently live in a private git repo, so that should be easy enough to do) and then if members of the community wish to help fix those issues that's great.

I'll keep an eye on this thread now anyway if folk have comments but I feel that is probably the best course of action right now. I'm sorry I don't have better news of a new version, however given the current climate I feel the key thing is to make sure that things are stable for your sites.

Rachel