Reactor Engineers

[eluser]Phil Sturgeon[/eluser]
Nobody "convinced these “engineers” to work for them for free. EllisLab openly offered the positions to anyone willing to apply. We applied and we got it.

Why did we apply? I can't speak for the others but mine was simple. I work with CodeIgniter every single day. My day job requires it and some of my side jobs require it. When I spot a bug and fix it I want that bug to go into CodeIgniter instantly, not mill about in some bug tracker for months hoping somebody else can recreate it. (No offense to EllisLab there, it happens to every project).

None of us said we want to spend hours and hours re-developing the entire framework just for the sake of it, and why should we?

So far i am hearing two main complaints about Reactor:

1. We will change everything.
2. We aren't doing enough work.

Well which is it? Do you want loads of work done or do you want it to slowly improve over time as and when a developer has a real use for the feature?

Working on features for the sake of working on features is a mugs game and leads to instability and a messed up framework. If you have changes you genuinely use and think would be useful then go ahead and contribute them. It is not important who they are contributed by as long as they are useful, in keeping with CodeIgniter's philosophy and documented.