I will buy that one too, probably next year when I start a new website. Since the maintainer mentioned the project will remain active I have more faith in that purchase. But still, it’s a waste that so many other official skeletons are not maintained anymore.
I can only support that. Over the past few years, Grav has become my preferred solution for building websites because it is both maintainable and highly customizable.
As an experienced web and software developer, I greatly appreciate the value Grav brings to the open source ecosystem and would be happy to contribute if hands are needed.
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As a happy user of GRAV and Gantry (13 websites built using them), I will gladly help, though I’m not a programmer or coder. As for Gantry, Rockettheme is more or less in dead waters, mainly after Mark Taylor passed away. Once again I learned from trying and making errors and trying again…not the quickest way, I know, but hey, here I’m willing to give my twopence to Grav and Gantry!
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For the Spanish-speaking community, I am also translating the official Gantry documentation on my website https://pmdesign.dev.
In three months I will have more time to dedicate to my projects, which include the complete translation of the Grav and Gantry documentation into Spanish, and starting small tutorials (how to… type) to promote the use of Grav in the Spanish community, while learning from this and other forums.
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I am actually looking to switch from hugo to grav 
Hugo is great for what it does (static site generation from markdown) but grav seems to offer just the extra bit of dynamic site generation that enables extremely usuful functionality (admin panel that can be accessed from any device), even while retaining the flat file markdown workflow.
I wish somebody had written a hugo-to-grav migration guide though. While bare bones markdown content obviously works, figuring out all the templates, shortcodes, tags, filters, partials etc. is quite a learning curve.
I hardly understand why dead word mentioned at this point.
reasons come to my mind are
- have known security issues that makes using grav dangerous.
1- i dont know much about this but i dont think thats happening right now from what i see. - it works good as beta or testing app but not for real work.
2- i dont think that is right. if nothing, creating websites with pure html-css-js is super easy as it just needs pasting codes to base.html.twig file. there is also twig and php codes that can be used as natural langs. - there are errors that prevent good user experience.
3- there may be some, for example i had one that came with uploading images via flex-objects. i had to add rule to user to prevent checking that security measure to fix it. i dont remember any other one. so this reason is not the case at least for me at least. - i dont like admin plugin. i cant find plugins i need. i want more functionality. i need this and that but they are not here…
4- those problems wouldnt point to end of an app. these are just things that app doesnt offer, yet or never. for example i dont know php much so i cant create shopping website that users can pay for something so i needed a plugin for that but i couldnt find one for my country cuz of some reasons and now i dont have ability to create a shoping website. still that wont make me say “grav is dead”. i can just dont use grav but i wouldnt think it is dead cuz dead is something else.
but from what i read at this page grav will be dead if one person dies… that is a big risk since every second at least a person dies. I wish him good health and long life
special note: i really hope grav gets better much more. more i use it more i learn how to use it more i find what can i use it for. im glad i caryfully searched my options for cms and selected grav before any as my first.
have a nice day ^^.
My issue is that I do not want to bet on a dead horse. I need to migrate off Drupal 7 in two months and I do not have to time to follow the new very short release cycles of Drupal 11, 12, and so on Migrating and customing a new CMS is a huge time investment and I wished I had more time…
Continued development in a project is like a heart beat. That known security issues and bugs are fixed is crucial and it’s crucial that future critical issues are also fixed in due time. And that is the extrapolation from the current state. A stable software may look like it’s declining and software is rarely “complete” or finished.
I need a simple visual editor. Not really full wysiwyg editor but something like the Lyx approach is fine for me… Studioeditor by Saveva looks good, but guessing from the github repository, it lived only for 2 weeks. And the editors listed in the plugins list are also quite unmaintained and the official premium is even not available at all.