Project status/ownership

[theofidry]

This project was one of my first open source project when I started as a developer. This was based on https://github.com/navitronic/psymf and filled a need of being able to inspect services in Symfony and to use them, as you do in Laravel with Tinker.

Since then a lot of things changed in Symfony:

• The system around the service locator changed, inlining most services which makes this bundle work a bit funky
• A debug config & container command was introduced
• More details of the services are available via the Container XML dump

I also was never fully satisfied with it as I couldn't work out how to get a tab automcompletion like Tinker.

I admit I also very used it for quite a few years now. Somehow I always found more convenient to use a tiny script or Xdebug step-debug mode. The only thing I missing can be provided by https://github.com/phpyh/service-dumper-bundle and this missing feature.

For this reason I would like to officially abandon this project. Since it appears some people are still using it, I guess the question is whether:

1. This project should be archived, eventually pointing to a new maintained fork.
2. Hand over the ownership of the project to someone willing to maintain it.

Thoughts?

/cc @wayne530, @aszenz as recent contributors

[aszenz]

@theofidry Thanks for sharing your thoughts, I think archiving is a good option for now, interested people can just look at the forks themselves via github forks btn and decide which one to use.

I was quite excited about Psysh early on even demonstrated it to my team, but almost no one used it, reason as you mentioned is ux.
In general tooling for repl based programming in php is far behind than in other langs like python it would take quite an effort to improve that situation.