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[Kristina Hoeppner <1890217@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This was discussed in the 81st developer meeting. Minutes are at
https://wiki.mahara.org/wiki/Developer_Area/Developer_Meetings/81

Earliest that this can be looked into: After the 20.10 release.

** Changed in: mahara
       Status: New => Confirmed

** Changed in: mahara
   Importance: Undecided => High

** Changed in: mahara
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Cecilia Vela Gurovic (ceciliavg)

** Tags added: refactoring

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1890217

Title:
  Replace unmaintained Dwoo templating engine

Status in Mahara:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  The Dwoo templating engine, which we use to process all our Smarty
  templates is no longer maintained. The website has been taken down and
  the Github project is archived: https://github.com/dwoo-project/dwoo

  This may start to cause problems for us as PHP moves on and Dwoo does
  not keep up with the new code. Currently it has been unmaintained
  since 2018. It looks like Dwoo was developed to make Smarty faster,
  but perhaps it is no longer faster. Smarty is at least patched for the
  latest PHP versions.

  We need to investigate what to do next in order to not be relying on
  an unmaintained library for all our templating. We can probably patch
  it ourselves for a limited time, but will need to move on from Dwoo.

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