Moodle in English: Orphaned plugin

Hi!

Is it possible to adopt an orphaned plugin so as to bring it up to date with Moodle if the maintainer is no longer available? I have no way to reach the developer through Moodle, and the person whom he originally wrote the plugin for is unable to contact him. I reviewed the documentation at https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Plugins_adoption_programme, but he's no longer even logging into Moodle. I'm just bringing it up to Moodle 3 coding guidelines and PHP 7 standards, there are very few people who use it according to the stats, but I'd like to help anyone else who does. What's my next step?

Thank you

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Re: Orphaned plugin

av James McLean - fredag, 11 augusti 2017, 08:06

Assuming the code is licensed appropriately, you could simply fork it and call it plugin_v2 for example.

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Re: Orphaned plugin

av David Mudrák - tisdag, 15 augusti 2017, 16:52

you could simply fork

Please do not fork unless there are really good reasons for that. It is better for everyone if developers co-operate on a single plugin, rather than having multiple partially-maintained forks. Thanks for understanding.

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Re: Orphaned plugin

av Tim Hunt - fredag, 11 augusti 2017, 16:09

Best to contact David Mudrak, who looks after the plugins ecosystem. (He will probably see this post and reply in due course.)

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Re: Orphaned plugin

av David Mudrák - fredag, 11 augusti 2017, 16:21

Hi Tia. What plugin is it?

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Re: Orphaned plugin

av Tia J - fredag, 11 augusti 2017, 21:42

The enrol/cvent plugin: https://moodle.org/plugins/enrol_cvent .

Thanks, everyone!

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Re: Orphaned plugin

av David Mudrák - tisdag, 15 augusti 2017, 16:59

Right. So according his profile description, Matt Oquist (the current maintainer) left the Moodle community long ago. It is not unfair to steal the plugin from him in such situation. I'll be more than happy to see if the plugin is adopted and maintained by you, Tia.

Can you please share what is the URL of your code clone with your recent additions / updates?

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