YEEK!! 8O
Tense topic.
How odd.
Personally, I see nothing wrong with asking for an update, but I just wouldn’t
expect a reply/response from the developers.
That said, we do get some small tidbits of information and updates... especially from Dominik.
The bug tracker is not a good place for "updates" BUT it is a good place to see how buggy the software is at this stage.
The Commit logs are not necessarily a good place for updates, BUT it is probably the best opportunity you have at seeing how much they work, and what they update.
Right now it’s pretty simple. Finish up the TODO’s, fix the remaining bugs, perhaps they are still working on refining a few functions.
Then release RC1.
phpBB is a project with about 40 people on the team; three of them developers.
Joomla has IIRC about 20 developers and countless members for other tasks.
Where did you get those numbers???
Joomla has 28 developers, 24 of which are active developers.
(MediaWiki has 70+ developers, 50 of which are active)
There are only 9 project team members/developers involved with phpBB3, 5 of which are currently active developers.
Although there have been as many as 12 contributors, that's 28 short of your 40.
Unless you count some of us in that 40.
In addition... phpBB3 has some of the lowest percentage of comments of any open source software.
And although that's not a big deal, it's not a good indication in the commit logs of what they are doing.
I’m happy [most] of the developers don’t spend a lot of time giving us updates, or replying in the forum... they would rather work on getting things done with phpBB3.
Plus, there is all that behind the scenes work that is going on right now, most of which we don’t know the full extent until actual phpBB3 release.
Then we also know that the secret style is coming along well... but we won’t get to see that either.
There are all the updates to the main site... conversion, bug tracker, portal, etc... etc... it all has to match their style that they are releasing.
So there is a lot they are doing that they could never tell us about anyways.