It's phpBB 4 coding active?

[thevirus~]

Look, I have a forum in Spanish (you know, is the second most spoken language in the world and I am a venezuelan, so one of my habits is to speak Spanish, but I have a sub-forum in English and Portuguese) that uses phpBB 3 (is hosted in Forumotion, but tecnically counts like phpBB 3), but the question that intrigues me is whether the development of phpBB 4 is active. Because I've thought several times so I change to phpBB 4 when finished. Have no idea if phpBB 4 project move forward?

Regards ^^

[DavidIQ]

Version 4 is likely 1-3 years away. Work is currently being done for 3.1

[VSE+]

Version 4 is likely 1-3 years away. Work is currently being done for 3.1

I have been hearing that already for the past 1- 3 years

[Oleg]

Development of phpBB is active, but the next major version will be 3.1 and not 4.

[bantu]

Yes, phpBB 4 coding is (sort of) active. Some of us are already contributing code to various projects related to phpBB and phpBB 4.

https://github.com/composer
https://github.com/symfony
https://github.com/doctrine
just to name a few

[sooskriszta]

Spanish (you know, is the second most spoken language in the world

Surely you mean 3rd or 4th depending on whom you ask (after Mandarin, English and possibly Hindi)

[imkingdavid]

By viewing the repository you can get a fairly confident idea of what's going on with the coding. Last commit was October 8, 2010. Of course, that doesn't account for any work done locally by individual developers, but there isn't any other code publicly committed.

[naderman]

There isn't anything private either. Some work has gone into https://github.com/composer/composer which is the basis for any Symfony2 based plugin system, as we will need for phpBB4.

[Johann]

Spanish (you know, is the second most spoken language in the world

Surely you mean 3rd or 4th depending on whom you ask (after Mandarin, English and possibly Hindi)

Spanish is the second most natively spoken language in the world, after Mandarin Chinese

Further refs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_language
http://www.ethnologue.org/ethno_docs/di ... ?by=size#3

[HGN]

Spanish is the second most natively spoken language in the world, after Mandarin Chinese

Oh, this Wikipedia?

English estimates (total number of speakers): Totaling about 1.5 billion or 1.8 billion speakers.

http://www.britishcouncil.org/learning-elt-future.pdf
http://web.archive.org/web/200911220507 ... _lec06.php

Number of native speakers:
1. Mandarin Chinese (1.1 billion)
2. English (330 million)
3. Spanish (300 million)
4. Hindi/Urdu (250 million)
5. Portuguese (220 million)
6. Arabic (200 million)

http://www.andaman.org/BOOK/reprints/we ... -weber.htm

Number of native and secondary speakers:
1. Mandarin Chinese (1.12 billion)
2. English (480 million)
3. Spanish (320 million)
4. Russian (285 million)
5. French (270 million)
6. Hindi/Urdu (250 million)

http://www.andaman.org/BOOK/reprints/we ... -weber.htm

What is a native speaker anyway?

This is fun, but I am afraid we have hijacked the discussion. So with apologies to other participants, I am out.