With 6.7.x releases, does this mean active work has resumed?

[tommymcgahee]

Hello!

For the past decade we have used Foundation across all of our projects, but have begun evaluating competing frameworks due this project's inactivity.

I was wondering if you could answer a few questions for us:

1. With the launch of version 6.7.x, can we now expect active development with recurring, timely releases?
2. Is there a long-term roadmap for the project?
3. Is the project still owned by Zurb?
4. What is the current status of Zurb?

Essentially, is this project still a good long-term fit for organizations to trust and use?

Thanks!
Tommy

[joeworkman]

I am actively maintaining the software now. I actually took it over last year. However, 2020 was 2020 and things got hectic. However, I am happy that I was able to do a lot of spring cleaning recently. I brought the issue count down merged in a lot of PRs. Lots of long standing issues have been fixed.

I am definitely open to fixing any issues that are found and merging in any PRs that developers are willing to help with. However, I don't plan on spending too much time going forward on adding a ton of features to F6. The reason that I have been planning Foundation 7. This version will definitely bring Foundation leaps and bounds ahead of many things out there. I have detailed some of those ideas a few times in various place. I will try to create a new post in the discussions here with details.

As for Zurb, they are no longer in the picture. While some resources are still hosted on their servers, it should be minimal. They are no longer funding or dedicating any resources towards this project.

Determining if this project is a trustworthy fit is probably based on two things...

1. There are still a lot of users of Foundation. Many are still opening PRs and filing issues. Foundation 6 was served over 75 million times last month by jsdelivr CDN. That does not include the overwhelming majority of users that load it from their domains.
2. While most of you have never heard of me, I am not some nobody. I have been building software for web designers for over 12 years now. I have been a contributor to Foundation for Sites for around 5 years. I had a close connection with Zurb. I still keep in touch with Rafi, whom most of you know is the god father of Foundation. Rafi will still be involved with the project in the future.

I hope that you take the ride with me. I am very passionate about Foundation and making amazing, easy to use software for web designers and developers. If we are able to make Foundation 7 into what I am envisioning, it will knock the socks off the web community.

[benthien]

I am referring to the template at https://github.com/foundation/foundation-zurb-template. I haven't been able to get the cli to work lately, but I use the manual setup with npm instead of yarn. (I finally got cli to work using node 10.5.0 and also with 11.15)

[erutan]

I'm using foundation-zurb-template for my partner's business presence site I built last fall - it works well enough but it's pretty trivial to just integrate foundation with a SSG of choice, so even though I'm using it I'm not sure I'd want resources dedicated to it if it'd impact the framework itself in a noticeable manner.

I'll chime in as someone that's been using foundation for a couple major versions as my default HTML/CSS framework and enjoy it's aesthetically un-opionated & SASS first approach. I'd begun looking into Bulma (+ tacking on lightbox etc) and the latest version of Bootstrap which has progressed into having a nice architecture. It is reassuring to see real action on Foundation again! :)

[clizlee]

I have a question related to Zurb...I often go to get.foundation under the Docs > Sites to see how to do things or how I could do a certain thing I'm trying to do on a website. I noticed though the version number is 6.6.3 and it's not being updated there. So will there be a similar site with documentation we can go to like that with the newer versions and espcially v. 7?

[joeworkman]

Oops. I missed that the docs build was broken. I'll look into it.

[ediejohnny]

Thank you! I was expecting this news for so many years that I have no words to express how happy I am. Please tell us as soon as possible what we can expect for the future and Foundation 7! Seriously, I'm very happy with this news. Again, thank you so much for taking efforts to make this project alive, Foundation is a very good framework and helps a lot.