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skeleton-mapper blog post

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+title: "The skeletons are now out of the closet - So long, Skeleton-Mapper"
+authorName: Claudio Zizza
+authorEmail: [email protected]
+permalink: /2024/08/16/the-skeletons-are-now-out-of-the-closet.html
+---
+
+While Doctrine ORM and DBAL have a main focus in our daily development, a deeper look 
+into their dependencies show, that Doctrine has much more projects at hand than just the 
+database-related ones. Some projects even weren't created for ORM or DBAL, just like 
+our Skeleton-Mapper.
+
+The [Skeleton-Mapper project](https://github.com/doctrine/skeleton-mapper) won't be maintained anymore because of 
+its lack of usage nowadays and is now an archived repository. The Doctrine Skeleton-Mapper 
+was an object mapper where you are responsible for implementing the object mapping of the 
+persistence operations. This means you write plain old PHP code for the data repositories, 
+object repositories, object hydrators and object persisters. A lot of freedom but also a lot 
+of work for a developer, including its maintenance for us.
+
+Some projects grow and others become obsolete after some time, which are 9 years in 
+the case of our Skeleton-Mapper. We also want to express our gratitude to 
+[the contributors](https://github.com/doctrine/skeleton-mapper/graphs/contributors) 
+and maintainers who kept this project alive for so long. Thank you.