Reactor vs Core

[eluser]Phil Sturgeon[/eluser]
[quote author="Vheissu" date="1294290231"]It would be nice if everyone else like myself could contribute as well. Is it only the six "chosen ones" allowed to make changes and recommendations or is anyone allowed to submit changes and additions as well? I might only be new to Codeigniter, but I feel as though my many years of PHP experience are more than enough.[/quote]

Of course Vheissu, that is the entire point! The code will be publicly available on BitBucket and any chances you may have can be easily sent in via a pull request. You write the code and now you have 6 people who are more than happy to review, test and merge, instead of the 2 (Greg and Pascal) who are already over-worked making an awesome CMS and hosting service. This is not about elitism, this is about making some people who really care about the framework available to help improve it with the help of the community.

[quote author="rlindauer" date="1294295647"]Is it that hard to maintain your own package that includes all the libraries, etc, that you use on a regular basis? Why force that extra weight on those of us who don't care for most 3rd party libraries, or have our own company libraries, etc? [/quote]

This has nothing to do with extra libraries at all. We are helping to improve the framework itself. You can keep your own libraries and nothing crazy will be forced on you, we are just helping to open up and improve the development of the framework we all use and love.

Seriously, how are people giving this such bad press? Before you had minimal development, now you have a team of people dedicating their own time to help add in the features you want and people are still complaining? I'm stunned.