@bimmerdriver Your whole argument is going in the same circles. You don't see new snapshot -> you say it's dead. You simply ignore that there was and is work done with 2.8. The screen above simply shows that. That public builds of the snapshot stopped because it's no time to test them while being unstable is no proof for your "it's dead" circle. And there were multiple patches and fixes for 2.7.2 afterwards via system patches. Simply repeating stuff over and over doesn't make it more true 🤷
@Patch said in Opensource 2.8 Dead...:
I do not doubt Netgate only focus on the close source software branch now. Describing the CE as a split off from Plus is not really what Redmine shows
It's exactly what they outlined in their blog about Plus as it was introduced. In the past the so-called factory edition (the Plus before there was the new naming) already existed but was dependend on CE being ready, then after it being ready and frozen it could then be fork/merged over to the FE branch and the custom things from the factory edition could be integrated. That intention was changed with Plus and communicated. With faster release cycles, now Plus is the "main" release and CE gets forked when plus is in a specific and stable state and without the additional plus-thingies. If they wouldn't work on a CE anymore you couldn't up/downgrade cleanly between Plus & CE, a thing they just introduced last year and would be stupid to drop already as it's in their own intent to keep that ability. That's why we already had two? three? joint-releases where Plus and CE followed after each other to have the same config revision and allow easy up/downgrades as needed.
And merging changes from a branch brings merge conflicts to resolve etc. that's just normal so you don't make that even more complicated by actually doing things twice or thrice if you don't have to. So the simples thing is: be done with one release and branch (plus) so the second one (CE) can be merged over, conflicts solved, then you have a state that is actually testable and won't just break by incompatible changes from OS updates, PHP updates etc etc. Simple development logic.
Cheers