Thanks for the feed back. That's how it should be.
How many developers in your team ?
We are 2-2.5 actual developers with me doing the majority. The others are regular translators as noted who we traditionally consider part of the (wider) team.
We sadly still could not test PHP 8.4 itself properly yet so things may not work (blame it on the vendor of our localhost server app named MAMP which was buggy when we tried). If you have some actual error messages about the issues we can take a look.
I moved from xampp to apache + php + mariadb + phpmyadmin + https.
I'm using a Manjaro Kde system, installation and configuration was tricky ! (php8.4 is easy, php8.3 was tricky for me)
I have the same config on my laptop, I can show zenphoto without network, wifi !
php 8.3 is supported until end 2027 !
2 1/2 years ! not bad !
Mamp is for windows or macOS.
You can keep it and install apache + php8.4 !, you just have to change the listen port !
http://localhost -> Mamp php 8.3
http://localhost:8084 -> apache, php 8.4
And you only use one db serveur (mariadb) on the same machine.
You most probably already know that ! it's a reminder, just try !