PHP8 support, new release, maintenance

Hi @ichiriac

As you know several PHP8 related features have been merged into the php8 branch of this repository. Until now we’ve held off of merging back into master because no one felt confident enough without your approval. Now I think it would be time to try to get it merged back into the master branch though, before the two branches diverge too much. Do you think you might find the time to take a look at the changes? Or shall we go ahead and merge it back into master without your review? After we merged back into master, it would be great to get a new release out (see https://github.com/prettier/plugin-php/issues/1836).

I know all too well how hard it can be to find time for OSS work and also that sometimes priorities can change. If you’d like some help with any aspect of the maintenance process, please let us know - I think the project is popular enough that one or two people could be found. I don’t want to pressure you in any way though - if you’d prefer to continue as is, that’s totally fine of course.

[ichiriac]

Hi @czosel

Many thanks to all contributors for all your work. I’ll do my best to review and start a release today. We’ll can talk after the release how you see maintenance for next releases and what you need.

Thanks again to all of you, BR, Ioan

[ichiriac]

Yes you can try github actions. I not used them yet, looking at you integration to see how it works