The last half of 2017 has been busy, especially with our day jobs, but not terribly productive in terms of advancing the framework.
CodeIgniter 4:
- Unchanged outlook: slow but steady development, contributors & interest.
- There has been a bunch of refactoring and defect removals.
- There are a number of "stalled" PRs, which were started but not completed. It would be nice to see them completed or dropped.
- The SQLite driver is essentially done, and the MSSQL driver needs to be completed, for our next pre-alpha.
- Code coverage is sitting at about 50%, so there is more work to do there.
- Per the Github issue tracking, the pre-alpha 2 milesone is 87% complete.
- Our available time is limited, and more community contributions would be welcomed!
CodeIgniter 3:
- We have published one update to CodeIgniter 3 - 3.1.6 in September, with bug fixes and enhancements.
- A number of additional bug fixes and enhancements have been accumulated, and they will be bundled into a new release, probably this quarter.
Website/Forum:
- We are up to almost 10,400 forum members, and over 67,000 threads.
- Keeping the forum free of spam and spammers is a never-ending battle ... the number of attempted spam users or posts has increased over the last few months, and I am thinking of reinstituting the wall of shame for them.
- Website & forum traffic continue to increase, now handling over 700K requests per day.
Looking forward, our goals for the first half of 2018:
- We would really like to publish the pre-alpha2 release of CodeIgniter 4, and continue the evolution
- We expect to have another 3.x release, whether it be 3.1.7 or 3.2
- I will plan some "office hours" on our slack channel - details to be announced separately.
Thank you, the CodeIgniter community, for your support and engagement!
James Parry
Project Lead
