Development team annoucement (Page 1 of 3)

I am happy with this change, I am already there

I also am for this move... Going to use fluxbb... though i think punbb just has this originality..

Shame the community was force out, so to speak

Me too. I'll make my Download Mod working on FluxBB too.

I know you guys probably have to be all political etc...but did the new company screw you all over? I am just curious.

Glad to hear that. I do know how these things can start off greta and then end on a sour note. Anyway, I wish you guys all the best with your new venture and I shall be just as active as I was over on this site.

Cheers!
Shedrock

I *knew* this would happen.

I've been through this before with the fork of the Mambo CMS > Joomla several years ago. Things changed with the original Mambo project (IP and ownership issues etc) in a similar manner to what has happened to PunBB, and a big chunk of the core devs and hackers soon left, worried that their input was being commercialised and open source ideals were being compromised.

But it is very disruptive and lots of things can suffer. For example with the Mambo/Joomla fork, the security of the code in Mambo (never that great) and Joomla went completely to crap for a long long time, since with the shift of devs and code no one knew what was going on and those who took an interest in security auditing in one project didn't bother with the other code base anymore.

The disruption caused by the fork also meant I never touched Mambo or Joomla again. I went across to a CMS with a more stable developer heritage and community instead.

For the moment I'll probably move on over to FluxBB too if the code is (at least for now) compatible with PunBB, since I have a lot of mods and hacks to worry about integrating into it. 

But please, no more radical moves, or I'll have to seriously start looking at Phorum or SMF or even (shudder) PhpBB...

PS - don't the core devs who are leaving now for FluxBB feel bad about ragging so heavily on the poor guy who forked v1.3 into SunBB about a year ago?

lol ... the funny thing is that i 100% suspected that one of the develpers may do that ... and its not a bad thing ...

but didnt know that almost all will go to this idea ...

What about Rickard, what wil he say?
What happens to punbb then?

A fork is, in the most basic way of explaining it, a completely separate version, based on the same source code, but with a different set of goals over the long term. Initially, differences will be minor, but later on, as things progress, larger differences between the two will occur.

if the devs are forking to fluxbb it seems the smart choice is go with them.  i'll be moving my site and mods over as time allows.  good luck on this new venture.

We all knew this could happen. Personally i believe there's no reason for drama, and i guess the development team tried to use a sober tone in the announcement as this is more natural than most might think after a first look.

The dev team got a little money for selling the copyright and the community goes on. I think it's good that you guys got a bit of money for your great job.

This is why free licences like GPL are valuable. The community never gets ripped off.
The new punbb owner should probably be disappointed with this move, but on the other hand this is very natural as he bought only the copyright of PUNBB code at that time and not punbb itslef, which is not possible to commercialize anyway due to its license.

I will naturally move to fluxbb too.