(05-20-2015, 07:56 AM)mwhitney Wrote: (05-19-2015, 02:18 AM)jenesaisquoi Wrote: [...] even after being dropped by ellislab in 2013 and its development being stopped during months (even more than a year without a new release).
I just wanted to point out that development did not stop, it was simply the release process for 3.0 that stopped. Many people contributed to 3.0 while EllisLab was looking for a new home for CI, and the 2.x line, though slowed, still had a handful of critical releases, as well.
In fact, looking at the commit graphs on GitHub, 2013/2014 was a very active period of development for CI. So, though the framework was more or less in a "feature-freeze" state, development was far from stopped.
Actually, it was just EllisLab
officially announcing that they, as a company, can no longer maintain and contribute to the project. In practice, they had stopped doing that long before the announcement, adding just a few (but critical) patches during the past few years. In addition to providing the infrastructure of course.
Bottom line is, CI no longer contributed to their business and it's a good thing that they decided to let somebody else have it, while most companies would probably just leave it to chance. Too bad the announcement caused so much panic.
