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The Official CodeIgniter Community Branch
Yes, you read that right, EllisLab will be creating a new CodeIgniter branch. For you. By you.
We need six talented, opinionated, critical coders from the community who have a heavy personal and/or professional interest in CodeIgniter’s ongoing development to act as deputies for the repository. If you feel that you qualify, please email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) the following:
- CodeIgniter Username
- Link to your site profile, e.g. http://codeigniter.com/forums/member/18457/
- Three of your biggest contributions to CodeIgniter (can be code, a particular bit of feedback, etc.)
- A brief paragraph stating why you think you should be considered.
You can also nominate someone else for one of the six seats by emailing the above information on their behalf. In that case, please also include your CodeIgniter Username and link to your site profile along with your nominee’s.
What can you expect?
- We will be vetting applications for these six seats over the next few weeks.
- We may solicit additional feedback from the community about nominees.
- Potential candidates will be asked to sign an NDA to discuss the details of the branch before accepting a seat.
- Details regarding the branch, where it will be found, and its impact on CodeIgniter will not be released until after six deputies have accepted a seat, but will then be posted here in the News section in advance of the branch being made public.
- Q1 2011 rollout.
UPDATE (2010/11/17 12:46PM PST): There’s been a bit of confusion in the community from this news item, two points specifically we’d like to clarify. First, CodeIgniter is not going anywhere, it is not dead, we are not abandoning it. The purpose of this is to give the community more direct control over CI’s development and future. Second, we chose the wrong word to describe it in broad strokes. Since we are not ready to reveal its name, we were simply trying to avoid calling it something lame like “CodeIgniter Community Edition”, and in haste chose “fork”. We’ve changed the wording in this article to more accurately reflect the intent, using “branch”. Lastly, EllisLab will be contributing directly to the community branch. -dj
Posted by Derek Jones on November 17, 2010
