Is RootsPersona abandoned or will it still be maintained?

OK, your site is now back up, and I see a recent support reply that says that next version is not for Q4 2019…

So I just would like to know if there will be an ongoing development and another version in 2020

Thanks in advance and all the best!

Hi Patricia,

I too am very concerned that Roots-Persona may be left without forks or some form of online central development gathering space that others might be able to refer to as they continue to enjoy the functionality of the plug in.

BUMP!

I can also offer whatever @patricia70 offered as some future for Roots-Persona.
But I had always left myself believing that before claiming an open fork, somebody somewhere should agree that whatever original work went in to whatever we would/could be prepared to takeover, was OK with them.
So can we form a new Roots-Persona Plug-In team or not?

Cheers – foxsch

foxsch, thanks for your consideration.

I feel like I did when my friend Tom asked me if he could date the girl I had just broken up with – appreciative of the consideration, understanding that I couldn’t stop him, reluctant none the less.

Rootspersona is not abandoned. Some might know I am also the developer of Evidentia, a commercial product for genealogist. My focus for the last two years has been on developing the next version of Evidentia. For that reason Rootspersona has not been feeling the love. I have managed to keep it updated as each new WordPress release has come out, as well as when PHP 7x became the standard, but little else.

I have a vision for Rootspersona 4, and even hired a freelancer to develop a new theme for it, started rebuilding the importer, but I had taken on too much and had to table it. My plan was/is to go freemium – a free version better but similar to what is available today (but improved, with some new features), and a Premium/licensed version with more advanced functionality.

But back to your question.

1) The current version of Evidentia is open source. That means anyone can fork it and develop it.
2) I have not had anyone to help maintain it in its 7+ years. I would welcome the help if a good developer is interested. We would have to work out what that meant if/when it went freemium. I am open to discussion on that.
3) I would LOVE to help some help fleshing out the website with help guides, examples, and even articles, whether someone is helping with the code or not.
3) My current “plan” is to have the next version of Evidentia out by Feb, give it a month or two to settle, then start working on Rootspersona4 again.
4) Whatever happens, in the short/medium term I will continue to keep Rootspersona running as new versions of WP are released, at LEAST for the next 2 years.

Hi Ed

It’s good to see that you are well, and that Rootspersona is not abandoned.

Let’s see what the future brings. IMO a freemium is a good option. When you will work on it early 2020, I can help you with some non-developer work you mention, feel free to contact me or reply here.

PS. sorry for what your friend Tim did. and I only suggested a fork if you actually had abandoned Rootspersona, a bit like Mike Little and Matt Mullenweg did in 2003 when they forked the abandoned B2/Cafelog, which became … WordPress
… it would be too bad if the past work would be completely lost in abandoned projects, and reading Foxsch I believe he/she is in the same mindset.

Patricia BT thanks for reaching out to ed4becky (@ed4becky) about the status of rootpersona. This is the best family tree plugin in the world right now. I can not find another to compare it to. I had to redo my site and rootpersona was not working and I was so panic..ed4becky (@ed4becky) helped me get it back up and I have not done any updates since, becuase I am afraid it will go down again. I can’t wait for the update..

Hi Guys, is anyone out there using Rootspersona with Posts rather than Pages ? I wanted to use the much higher integration functionality/flexibility of Posts on my site, sadly when using the plugin in Pages you don’t get the Rootspersona “edit” function, so I have to mutually convert any post I am working on (I currently have 577) to a Page and then convert them back again when finished (it’s a real pain) for them to work properly on my site, see https://www.familytree.me.uk/ Many thanks all !

Right now the plugin is kinda in a maintenance mode as my priorities are on another project. I had hoped to be well into a new version by now, but I started a new job at the end of last year and that pushed some things around.