Casemon wrote:My 0.02 on this is that forking PunBB at this phase will only work to make neither PunBB or FluxBB very useful.
Agree.
Casemon wrote:It's already confusing what belongs to which, etc.
We hope there is less confusion since PunBB 1.3 final release.
Casemon wrote:I wish the FluxBB devs would instead work with PunBB devs to make PunBB even better.
Forking seemed to be a great fun for some community members. Looking at the results in half a year, I'd say it was not really useful for both communities. Though I understand former PunBB devs: Rickard's left and they didn't know much about new PunBB owners (and why should they care about owners' needs).
PunBB is an open project, so FluxBB devs are free to join (and we've never forced anyone to fork/leave). Nevertheless, I don't think they would like to: this is kind of religious beliefs. Though these beliefs could be overstepped to get better result. I even don't mean that current PunBB devs (including me) are really good enough, but I think we've proved (and ensured ourselves) that we can lead the project, provide the support and keep up development activity.
Hypothetical joining of FluxBB and PunBB community would now mostly be useful in view of less confusion for users and more community activity: language packs, styles and extensions development.
FluxBB development now is like walking the infinite path to the unreachable ideal. Paul has reworked his markup several times and is going on now, though even the first version was good enough (Paul is really cool) to release 1.3. Same with features: too much changes has been started for 1.3 and there is still too few planning/projecting for them. PunBB/FluxBB 1.3 is a halfstep to something 2.0. The ideas of 1.3 should be better projected and require other techniques than PunBB 1.2. So that 1.3 should be released as soon as possible to fix what has been done.
PunBB 2.0 is planned to be an adequate implementation of the same 1.3 ideas, but simpler/easier/faster/less featured.
Thanks for the giving me the reason to express these thoughts :-)