Stepping down as maintainer.

[svpernova09]

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Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2023 13:12:22 -0500
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Subject: Homestead & Settler
From: Joe Ferguson <joe@joeferguson.me>
To: Taylor Otwell <taylor@laravel.com>
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Hi Taylor,

Hope things are well. I've just published Homestead v14.4.2 which is likely
the last release. I've resolved all the glaring issues brought up in the
past year. I think it's time to call Homestead done. It served a great
purpose really well and still continues to.

Feel free to archive these repositories. People can happily fork to their
heart's content.

Thanks for trusting me with this. I learned a lot and messed up a lot.

-- 
- Joe Ferguson
JoeFerguson.me
osmihelp.org

thanks for the ride, everyone.

[browner12]

I would be interested in taking over the project. I still believe Homestead is a great solution for local development, and want to continue the great work Joe has done over these many years.

[rayblair06]

Thank you for your contributions as the maintainer of Homestead, @svpernova09. It goes without saying that your work has made a significant impact on the Laravel community, making it easier for developers like myself to work with Laravel. Wishing you all the best in your future endeavours.

[wallacio]

@svpernova09 Joe - thanks so much for your work in keeping this current for so long. I depend on Homestead for so many projects (not just Laravel); it's a one-stop shop that's been so easy to use.

Hopefully this isn't the end of Homestead, I'd love to see someone else take on maintenance of it.

[Sn0wCrack]

Don't know what to say that hasn't been said, but thank you for all the work on Homestead over the years.

It's allowed myself and everyone on my team to deliver some awesome stuff due to the simplicity and customisability of it. Adding new software to our multi-project stacks being as simple as changing a value true has been an awesome feeling, especially considering we used to run our stuff under WAMP not even 5 years ago now, it's been a world of difference.

I do hope we can see a continuation of this project within the Laravel ecosystem and I'm honestly happy to help out where I can if it means keeping this amazing project alive.

[Erulezz]

Thank you @svpernova09 for all the hard work and for maintaining it all these years. I used it a lot so again, thanks 🥇

[svpernova09]

No one panicked, right? 😅

https://github.com/svpernova09/settler

v14.1.0 base boxes for Parallels (x86_64 & aarch64/arm64) and Virtualbox (x86_64) have been released.

https://github.com/svpernova09/homestead

The main branch is updated, but there is no tag yet. If you're brave, clone it and throw your Homestead.yaml as is and vagrant up. Yell if anything breaks, then open a new issue.

[Sn0wCrack]

So what exactly has happened then @svpernova09? I'm a bit confused here.

[svpernova09]

So what exactly has happened then @svpernova09? I'm a bit confused here.

Homestead hasn't been a priority for Laravel in a long time. If users want to keep using Laravel Homestead, it will be fine for a while, as most of us know it's a pretty solid tool. Laravel could appoint a new maintainer to take over. I tried to leave things better than I found them.

If users want to continue using an up-to-date version of Homestead, they should migrate to my fork.

[Erulezz]

Homestead hasn't been a priority for Laravel in a long time.

That's something I don't understand, it's such a great development tool and I still prefer it after all these years over the newer "official" tools

[seriquynh]

Thank you for all your work on Laravel Homestead! Wish you the best!

[seriquynh]

I would be interested in taking over the project. I still believe Homestead is a great solution for local development, and want to continue the great work Joe has done over these many years.

@browner12 Thank you so much! Have you tried to reach Taylor to tell him you want to take responsibility on this project?

[skeeith]

@browner12 @svpernova09 I too would love to be one of the maintainers of homestead, I've contributed in the past on this project as well, and as of today I still prefer Laravel Homestead as my local development environment over the newer official tools.

I've been using it since Laravel v5 (2016) days, and for me it's still way better and easier. not only that, it's also way flexible and easier to upgrade/change anything you want in your environment as it's literally a local server where you can tinker to your hearts content.

@svpernova09 if it's okay with you, could you introduced me, @browner12, and whoever here is interested to @taylorotwell to be the new maintainers of Laravel Homestead. I do believe Laravel Homestead has more to offer to our community still

here's my email address gether.medel@gmail.com

[skeeith]

@svpernova09 about the panicking part, I'm about too 😂 as I've been using it ever since and even until now, the amount of ease it gives me still has no comparison, especially if you're handling multiple projects? just opening those local custom domain names after running vagrant up is easier than running multiple docker commands just to run multiple projects.

it gives you that actual behavior on your local env, especially if you have sub domains running on some projects.

so I say, Laravel Homestead still has more to offer in our community. You might feel that they're not giving much attention to Laravel Homestead, and the reason probably is because it's that stable already and it doesn't needed to be looked after much, but there's still A LOT of people in our community who are actually still dependent on this.

[wsamoht]

Well, I am confused 🤔😅 Joe said he is stepping down (greatly appreciate all your work!) but has forked the repos and is continuing to maintain his own forks. I am curious why this is the case and why not just keep maintaining the Laravel repos.

I know the Laravel team is focused on Laravel Herd but I am among the Linux users and apparently there is no current plans to support Linux.

From Laravel Herd's website FAQs:

Is there a Linux version available?
There are currently no plans for a Linux version of Herd, and we believe that Linux users are more comfortable installing and running their development environment in general. We regularly evaluate our decisions and this might change in the future.

Sure, I could install everything locally but the reason I use Homestead is so I don't pollute my local environment.

Taylor also said in the recent Live Q&A that Herd for Linux is not on the short term road-map.

It would be nice to hear from Taylor or another Laravel team member regarding the future of Homestead. Are we supposed to jump to Joe's new forks?