Is this project still active?

[turian]

I love the idea of staticman. But I spent a few hours yesterday trying to get it working and couldn't. Previous issues discuss how some of the docs are stale. And there have been no commits since 2020.

Is this project still active? Or is there a more recent alternative I should consider?

p.s. thank you for your hard work, staticman seems awesome and I want to use it

[ka2in]

Hi @turian:
Did you follow the steps described under the following URL?
https://staticman.net/docs/getting-started.html
You will need option 1 for step 1 if you intend to use GitHub, and option 1 for step 2.
Note, however, that Heroku will stop offering free dynos and subscriptions starting November 2022. Therefore, you should deploy Staticman on a different platform than Heroku. Check the issues here #451 to find a suitable alternative.
Steps 3 and 4 are self-explanatory.

[RyanTG]

staticman still works well! Sure there are a lot of issues and not a lot of recent commits. But you can still successfully set it up using the current instructions. If you have more details into the issues you experienced, then it's more likely that others can assist.

[erikw]

This is a relevant question. As of #451 the instructions for Heroku, which is what most seems to use, will no longer work.

[jamesmortensen]

They've been looking for maintainers for the past year and a half. #428. So far, no one has really had the time to step up. At the same time, people are creating forks, but changes and improvements are getting fragmented since there is no one to triage pull requests. I'm not sure how to solve this problem. Maybe creating a Slack group to discuss all of the forks and pull requests would be a good start, kind of like crowdsourcing the pull requests.

[zanechua]

I was having issues with staticman and the fact that the free tier is gone in Heroku means I had to find another solution to host the app. staticman wasn't designed for lambdas so I decided to rewrite one that works in cloudflare workers.

Have made it pretty straightforward to deploy and is compatible with the staticman site configuration file as well.

https://github.com/zanechua/comment-worker

There's stuff missing at the moment as it was just something that I quickly put together for my needs. I made some improvements but we're not at feature parity to staticman at the moment. Look at the meta issue for more information.

[hoijui]

@jamesmortensen I would recommend, to look at the forks you mentioned, and for those that made changes in a reasonable quality, ask the maintainers if they would accept to become administrators (together with you and the others that accept), and then promote them.
Having 3 mediocre admins that are all just rarely active is better then having one high-quality one which is not active at all, because in the later case, death of the project is certain. also, the current version will be available anyway, in case future changes would make staticman worse. I did that with a few projects of mine, and I am very happy with it.

[alexwaibel]

Hey folks, appreciate your interest in this project. As others have noted, this project has been looking for a new maintainer for some time now. I like the cloudflare worker approach, it's probably how I would architect this project now that Heroku free tier is gone. I shared some thoughts in the discussion thread here. Feel free to discuss alternatives or forks and as always, we're open to someone stepping up to maintain this project again. If the state of this project is daunting, maybe @zanechua would be open to contributions on comment-worker which may be easier for new maintainers to get up to speed with.

[zanechua]

Thanks @alexwaibel

Happy to take any code contributions to

https://github.com/zanechua/comment-worker

to get to feature parity to staticman.

The meta issue is where we're currently at today and what needs to be done.