Reactor Engineers

[eluser]Michael Wales[/eluser]
Oh hell - the rest of the old timers are chiming in, why shouldn't I?

WD - you're one hell of an asset to this community; but, the way you came off in this post - completely inappropriate and to be honest, not very constructive. The guys working on Reactor have to meet a balance between "balls to the wall" rewriting certain portions of the framework and slowly making additions/changes that meet demand.

Additionally, just because something is the highest voted for feature, doesn't mean it's the highest priority. I think all of us can agree, a feature with a boat-load of supporters that only requires 10-15 minutes of work is much more valuable to the community than an even more popular feature that requires hours/days of work - by the Reactor team working on these "quick wins" they only further validate the work, and good, they are doing for our framework and community as a whole.

Ultimately, I'm just glad to see CodeIgniter receive some attention - and I'm not going to complain about anything they do. EllisLab has virtually ignored CodeIgniter since 1.7.2 (which was released on 11 Sept 2009), aside from a few security patches. No, CodeIgniter 2.0 doesn't count, that was an ExpressionEngine effort - the release of CI 2.0 was a side-effect and only after quite a bit of complaining/begging/convincing from the community that it was, in fact, stable.

I think the argument about there being 2 versions of CodeIgniter is a bit unfounded, especially if the homepage "download link" points to the Reactor version. If that's the case - there is only one version of CI (Reactor), "Core" is nothing more then EE-backend - it's not CodeIgniter.

As I laid out in my post, many months ago, CodeIgniter needs to maintain its identity and I think Reactor is the method in which we can do so (and they need as much support as they can get). Otherwise, we may as well all run on over to the EE forums.