Where is Codeigniter going?

[eluser]swgj19[/eluser]
I came across an article written in 2008 today that talked about Kohana passing Codeigniter as a community focused framework instead of a corporate focused framework. The article went on to say the pros and cons of Codeigniter and Kohana regarding the attention given to each by its developers. That got me thinking. Codeigniter's main use is for Expression Engine and keeping that CMS afloat from what I understand. From what I understand Kohana has many community developers that can contribute to the open source framework.

I would like to know how much attention is given to developing the framework itself(not Expression Engine) by the lead engineers for Codeigniter. Just a curiosity of mine.



All responses are welcomed...
The Article

[eluser]InsiteFX[/eluser]
Try reading the Kohana documentation then try setting up your routes.
Try removing index.php on a Windows localhost server.

I'll stick with CodeIgniter.

And yes I have played around with Kohana 3.2 and I do not like it.

[eluser]swgj19[/eluser]
Yeah, I will always stick with Codeigniter, definitely. I was just wondering how much effort and time is put into the Codeigniter framework on a weekly basis or from time to time. Trust me, I will always stick with Codeigniter

[eluser]InsiteFX[/eluser]
You can see what is going on here:

CodeIgniter on GitHub

Read the issues etc.

[eluser]swgj19[/eluser]
Cool, thanks..

[eluser]PhilTem[/eluser]
You may also want to have a look at the CI GitHub Graphs which visualize the impact on code changes for CI.

And even if CI won't be actively supported by EllisLab anymore it's a public repository so everybody can clone it and continue developing it. If the just mentioned should happen some day I think there will be lot of people, from these forums in particular, to continue developing the CI core (myself included ).

I often heard that CI is somehow old-fashioned and that it won't survive any longer if they don't drop legacy support or this or that. But I think, that is what makes CI so popular and attractive for developers.
Other frameworks aren't preferred by me since they're somehow harder to learn than CI since CI is like pure OOP-PHP. With e.g. Yii or Kohana there is - from my standing - a new syntax to learn and I didn't get the application flow easily which is why I'm still "stuck" with CI.

All in all I would say CI has future yet the developers shouldn't be following solely their roadmap/goals but should also listen to you, @InsiteFX, me and the community behind CI on what is wanted. And in some aspects they already do so (e.g. the hmvc-lite branch on GitHub)