Governance

kilishan (Lonnie?) elaborates here, and notes they are now the de facto lead: https://forum.codeigniter.com/showthread.php?tid=75235

It says that perhaps one of Parry's relatives will join the Board as the BC member and bringing them back to 3. However, I could find no confirmation that ever happened.

The next discussion of governance is this flippant thread which goes nowhere: https://forum.codeigniter.com/showthread.php?tid=76815

On the code side it's even odder.

kenji appears to be the dominant contributor to CI4: https://github.com/codeigniter4/CodeIgni...ntributors

Confusingly, that is under a "CodeIgniter4" org on GitHub, with the "CodeIgniter" org seemingly inactive https://github.com/codeigniter

Meanwhile, the org "bcit-ci" controls CodeIgniter 3 (last updated 3 Mar 2022 https://github.com/bcit-ci/CodeIgniter/) and this website's repo (last updated 5 years ago, prior to Parry's passing https://github.com/bcit-ci/codeigniter-website)

This suggests no one is firmly in control of the assets, except _perhaps_ the CodeIgniter4 org.

USPTO lists BRITISH COLUMBIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY as the owner of the trademark, suggesting that Parry may have registered the Foundation but never formally got it running, nor got ownership of this key asset. I'd guess no tax documents were ever filed, meaning it's effectively defunct and probably its membership is symbolic at this point but legally moot.

kilishan stopped visiting this site in June. The last major news / roundup I found is here, from 1 year ago: https://forum.codeigniter.com/showthread.php?tid=89075

kenji stopped committing to CI4 in September of this year, but is still approving PRs as of this month.

I obviously don't know if there's a private contributors channel somewhere, but publicly it appears CI governance has drifted onto the proverbial rocks.

I am mostly just posting this to document how far I got in my research so far. I'd be happy to help administratively if anyone in leadership wants to chat, but otherwise I'm going to pause there for a while and check on a few other things before I pull on this thread further.

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Also, apologies if any of that seemed rude or insensitive, I realize I'm a stranger here, just trying to assess the level of effort that would be required to invest time into the project or using it as a dependency. The world's changing fast, but I suspect CodeIgniter still has a place in it. If you're interested, this is me: https://lincolnwebs.com/about/ — I managed the Vanilla Forums project for most of its existence, and its bespoke framework was heavily inspired by CodeIgniter, so while I've never been a direct user, I've been in the general ballpark most of my career.