phpCAS Maintainer

[Yehuda Katz]

I saw the note on the phpCAS project that it needs a maintainer.

I make extensive use of phpCAS in a number of projects. I am interested in maintaining and possibly modernizing the library. I have been a PHP application developer for more than 15 years.

Thank you,

- Y

[CAS Community]

Thank you for expressing an interest.

For now, the best course of action likely would be for you to start sending pull requests for (preferably small, for now) changes you have in mind, and those that are likely to be accepted and reviewed by the broader community audience. Once the change is ready to be reviewed, please ask other like-minded individuals on the list here to review the change and work with you to get it ready. With enough consensus and +1 votes in place, we'd be glad to merge the change.

Since we're short on PHP expertise, we're going to have do the development "in public" for a while until you have a solid, steady stream of changes incoming and have established a reasonable repertoire. If you keep this up at a reasonable pace, I'd be happy to call for a vote and get you maintainer access. 

Best of luck!

[Yehuda Katz]

Great. I inferred from the announcement that no one was reviewing PRs.

- Y

[Yehuda Katz]

It does look like no one is reviewing PRs. There are three open PRs all for fixing the same warnings in PHP 8.4. What can we do to get them merged?

The best of them is probably https://github.com/apereo/phpCAS/pull/444 since it includes updates to the tests.

- Y

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[Valentin SALMERON]

+1

Is the library actually abandoned ? Because there are people relying on it based on the fact that it's still maintained. 
Please bring an clear answer so community can organize itself to propose another maintained library.

[Valentin SALMERON]

Hi CAS Community,

I'm in the same situation. What's the state for phpCAS library? Many dev want to help, but it seems that this library is actually abandoned...

- Valentin

Le mardi 22 avril 2025 à 12:39:10 UTC+2, Yehuda Katz a écrit :

[Pascal Rigaux]

Hi,

phpCAS is used in a lot of applications in France.
That's why Esup-Portail is volunteering to become maintainer again (*).
Esup-Portail maintainers would be https://github.com/orgs/EsupPortail/people/jgribonvald and https://github.com/orgs/EsupPortail/people/prigaux .

Is CAS Project Management Committee ok to keep it under https://github.com/Apereo/phpCAS and assign some maintainers from Esup-Portail?
Or is PMC preferring a ownership transfer to https://github.com/EsupPortail/phpCAS ?

cu

(*) phpCAS was initially developed by Esup-Portail... long time ago!

Le 19/11/2025 à 07:22, Valentin SALMERON a écrit :
> Hi CAS Community,
>
> I'm in the same situation. What's the state for phpCAS library? Many dev want to help, but it seems that this library is actually abandoned...

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Pascal Rigaux - member of Esup-Portail Technical Coordination

[CAS Community]

Esup-Portail maintainers would be https://github.com/orgs/EsupPortail/people/jgribonvald and https://github.com/orgs/EsupPortail/people/prigaux .

Is CAS Project Management Committee ok to keep it under https://github.com/Apereo/phpCAS and assign some maintainers from Esup-Portail?

I don't know if PMC is in a position to make a "ruling" on this; particularly because nobody at PMC is equipped to understand the technology/codebase and there is no history to suggest that Esup-Portail has been actively involved with the project. That being said, you could reach out to Apereo directly and make your case. They can grant you maintainer rights, or PMC can do so once we receive a go-ahead.