Comment on FluxBB announcement

From what people that dont use punbb say its verry simple. Just a thought but one could have all the features like Phpbb such as a calendar and pms pre installed and one can be the simple one...

Hello, Nicolas.

No, we have not contacted foreign PunBB communities yet.
PunBB development will go on in the same direction as earlier. PunBB 1.3 is coming.
We will update roadmap when 1.3 is released and will contact the communities then.

Anatoly,

Are you at liberty to tell us what extensions your professional team is working on?

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Thanks, I'll keep an eye on SVN then.

They are local Russian PHP-developers and have different level in speaking English. We do not require them to register here, so I do not watch their nicknames here :)
As I have already said we mostly work on extensions. I think our developers will have to take an active part in discussions as soon as their extensions will be published.

However, you are right and I suppose we will publish developers list (with couple of words about each person) on PunBB site update.

the news that appers on the main punbb site !!

Anatoly,

Besides moving punbb.org to punbb.informer.com, which I stated was a bad move, what caused the core programmers to decide to fork?

The reason I ask is simple, SoftDeluxe is looking like the ones that caused the split by requiring the core programmers to change PunBB to fit a corporation's interests. This has fueled the exodus of the community because they feel like their interests weren't looked after. You need to clarify this, so those of us sitting on the fence can make up our own minds.

Keep in mind that small forum users will flock to FluxBB, just for the comradery with the devs they know. On the other hand, large forum users have a decision to make, cause their forums are cornerstones of their online presence and they can't play forking games.

If your plan is to rely on the FluxBB core and create extensions, then PunBB just became extinct.

Hi! I just popped in today to mention that I had forked punbb to an xsl / xml , only to find out about fluxbb. That is great news! Good luck to both informer, and fluxbb. I also wanted to say I'm really impressed with Rickard's work.

So what is phunkybb all about? Well I'm keeping with the minimalist concept, but I've also removed a bunch of non-core forum functions, like access control and search. I think those are better left to apps like fail2ban and xapian. The great majority of users will want that built-in, so phunkybb is not for everyone.

If you want to take a look at PhunkyBB, here's the site:

http://www.phunkybb.docunext.com/blog/

Was confused about all the FluxBB posts here and finally read this and understood why.

My 0.02 on this is that forking PunBB at this phase will only work to make neither PunBB or FluxBB very useful.

I know having 2 can be successful and work to improve the other, but I think the likelihood of that actually happening is very low. It's already confusing what belongs to which, etc.

I wish the FluxBB devs would instead work with PunBB devs to make PunBB even better.

Just my 0.02.

Forking should of happened when Rickard sold the rights to PunBB, then both communities would of went their own ways. At this point, bringing both communities back together doesn't appear likely to happen.

I keep going back to the punbb.org domain change, even though it may seem trivial and not a big deal. But in the eyes of volunteers, those that have hung around for years, helping Rickard and Paul, it is huge. Everything that Rickard wanted to do, he discussed it with us first, all you have to do is go back in this forum and read old threads.

I fully understand Informer's position, but Informer has to understand that you can't do drastic changes without some kind of community consent. Because a community has to feel like they are part of the proceedings, or else they cease to care. And when they cease to care, they stop volunteering, they stop manning the support forums, they stop contributing plugins, themes and adding to the wiki, and last but not least, they stop recommending your product.

Open Source is a fragile process, we are learning it's nuances daily.