![]() ![]() PhpBB presents itself as a "community" but over the last seven years or so the inclusiveness of the community has evolved into exclusiveness - there is virtually no nurturing or encouragement for change. In my view, and that of some others, phpBB is in danger of dying within the next few years unless some drastic action is taken in formulating a plan as to where phpBB is going and how it is going to get there - and if such a plan does exist then why can we not know about it? I am prepared to be proven wrong but there is no plan being actively progressed to finish off what was started with phpBB 3.1 - to complete the moving of all major components to work with Symfony. The development of phpBB would appear to have stalled with major aspects, such as moving all of the ACP to controllers having been reversed. Now before anyone jumps on this I am more than aware that everyone involved with the development of phpBB is a volunteer and does it in their spare time but going back to the pre phpBB 3.1 days there was an "army" of volunteers working on the development of phpBB as can clearly be evidenced by the number of "Former Team Members" - where are these people now? Yes people move on for all sorts of reasons but any well run organisation would have replaced them, or at least some of them, by now. By my estimation, based on the current rate of progress, we are looking at another four years - minimum. On top of that almost every front facing extension will need to be rewritten, or at best modified. ![]() Once the "framework" is complete there is still a massive amount of work to be done - all the templates need to be rewritten, some core code needs to be reworked, css needs to be created and most, if not all, of the js needs to be rewritten. The Chameleon project has been underway for the better part of four years now and is still nowhere near seeing the light of day. There has, and is, much talk about phpBB4 being the next major step forward but from what I can see phpBB4, if it ever comes to fruition, will only be a minor improvement over phpBB 3.3 - which in itself is still basically phpBB 3.0 with the addition of extensions (yes I know there have been a few minor additions, but nothing that is significant)Ĭurrently there does not appear, to the outsider, to be any plan whatsoever as to where phpBB is going and, dare I say, there also appears to be a lack of leadership and drive and this is more than apparent with the Chameleon project. ![]() No, this is not about when the next version of phpBB is going to be released but is about where, if at all, phpBB is going. ![]()
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