Originally Posted by lloda
will we see Grid continue its functionality and updates throughout BFA?
Bare minimum updates required to work as-is and not throw errors? Yes.
Anything beyond that? Maybe, but probably not. I haven't had an active WoW subscription in over 2 years now, and haven't done any serious raiding since Wrath, which was about 8 years ago. I took over Grid after its original author quit WoW at the end of Burning Crusade and nobody else was patching it. I've been hoping for years now that someone will show some interest in at least fixing some of the outstanding bugs, but apart from one person who helped out a bit in mid-Mists of Pandaria, that hasn't happened.
While I'm still maintaining most of my addons at a basic level, Grid really needs more than "basic level" attention at this point, and it's impossible to test changes without an active subscription (since the low level characters I can log into on an inactive account can't join raid groups) so I'm pretty limited in what I can fix or change.
Right now, I don't have BFA beta access, and don't expect to get a beta invite since my account is inactive, so there won't be a Grid update until the expansion pre-patch goes live (or the expansion itself, if there isn't a pre-patch like there usually is). If you're feeling adventurous, you can download untested BFA updates from GitHub (
https://github.com/phanx-wow/Grid) but it's likely that more updates will be needed that aren't listed in the official "API changes in the expansion" thread.
If you have any programming experience, you can take a look through the list of outstanding issues and the source code and see what you can do. If you're familiar with Git at all, opening a pull request on GitHub is preferred, but if you're not, you can just provide a patch, or even a modified file.
