Project Update - Dec 31st, 2014

Here is a summary of what has been happening and what is planned for the CodeIgniter project, since BCIT took it over.


What has been accomplished during the last quarter of 2014:

* The CodeIgniter project and its intellectual property were transferred from EllisLab to BCIT.
* I assumed the role of project lead for CodeIgniter.
* BCIT provisioned and secured a server, to host our informational site and forums.
* An interim council has been put in place, to provide governance for the project. Thank you Andreas, Andrey, Ben, David, Johannes and Lonnie!
* A security group has been put in place, to address any vulnerabilities that arise. Thank you Andrey, Ben and Debasis!
* Our source code repository has seen a surge of issues and pull requests raised. Thank you Andrey!
* Our website has been redone. Thank you Lonnie, Michal and Ray!
* Our new MyBB forum is in place, spam-free. Thank you Johannes and Lonnie!
* The CI3 user guide has been beefed up & re-styled. Thank you David!
* The CI3 system messages translations repository has been created, with almost 20 languages provided for so far.

What is in progress as the new year begins:

* CodeIgniter Version 3 is almost ready. Feature code has been completed, and finishing touches are being made to the documentation.
* The user guide navigation is being enhanced, by popular request; we are trying to replicate the navigation style of the much praised CodeIgniter 2 user guide.
* Our wiki has had a number of revisions; that process is ongoing.

What is planned for the first quarter of 2015:

* I plan to provide monthly/quarterly project updates (starting with this one).
* We plan to hold monthly "office hours", scheduled on IRC, with one or more of the council in the channel to answer questions; the first of these will be held in early January.
* We are working on a framework roadmap, with process for versioning, releases, and features; the community will be consulted!
* We are participating in the Winter 2015 UCOSP projects; I will be mentoring a team of four students.
* I am piloting experimenting with the open-sourcing of my webapp course at BCIT, which should eventually provide a set of tutorials for CI; I have called for four guinea pigs volunteers for this, in a separate announcement on the forum
* Email hosting (for codeigniter.com) is in place; we are waiting for MX records to be updated, and will announce the email addresses on the forum.

Thank you, the CodeIgniter community, for your support and engagement!
I look forward to good things for CodeIgniter in 2015, as I am sure do you.

James Parry
Project Lead