"We plan to release a new beta snapshot every Friday until 31 October 2014, at which point Atheme 7.2 final will be released. At this point, Atheme development will be terminated, as all objectives of the project have been completed." reddit / irc ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MillenniumFalc0n · 2014-09-16 22:13 Goodnight sweet prince ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Throwaway9992392 · 2014-09-17 06:44 This is another stupid joke. First he rage quits from atheme, then rejoins. Ragequits again and rejoins. How many times is he going to do this? Grow up nenolod. We do not need you acting like an child on the internet because you cannot get your way. /rant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- iadicicco · 2014-09-18 20:00 <+kaniini> aji: PICK A RANDOM DATE uhhh 10/31/2001 <+kaniini> ok <+kaniini> a random date <+kaniini> that hasn't occured yet <+kaniini> god 10/31/2014 if i'd have known what i was picking, i'd have picked something farther off in the future. less than 2 months for a stable, final release seems rushed. for new communities, i highly encourage people to pick an alternate solution for new networks, use an existing network, or be prepared to deal with the landscape of bugfixes and features being scattered across numerous unofficial repos as people decide which codebase represents the new "official" atheme codebase. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Aeoxic · 2014-09-19 13:44 This is hilarious, and classic nenolod. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- jdhore1 · 2014-09-19 18:39 Just for the record, you left atheme.org. You would've had a say in this if you hadn't. Also, to be fair, Atheme was stagnating under your leadership. An ending is better than stagnation into irrelevancy. Currently, every other member of the organization doesn't have the time, effort, reasoning, need or want to continue Atheme. For all of us it is feature-complete. I agree that most forks will likely suck, but there will also be a few amazingly good forks that continue the Atheme idea. Also, spb, jilles, Fact/Taros, me, grawity and mr_flea can vote to drop this idea or even remove nenolod as an Atheme.org member as per the charter. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- jdhore1 · 2014-09-19 19:00 The thing is, he's getting his way. Stop thinking there's underlying shit here. I (another Atheme core dev) agree with this plan and IIRC, jilles and spb do as well. The thing is, Atheme is more than complete for us and at the end of the day, we all primarily write it for us, not for other people. People are welcome to fork it and make changes that we are unwilling to, and i'm sure there will be some really good forks, but at this point, it's out of our hands. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- nenolod · 2014-09-19 21:31 I think you blow things way out of proportion here. The release engineering process we are using is intended to shake bugs out, so the 7.2 final release should be reasonably good. Also, as announced, bugfixes will be available for the standard non- LTS release cycle period. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- nenolod · 2014-09-19 21:35 Technically he had a say in it anyway, considering he picked the date. ;) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- nenolod · 2014-09-19 21:50 I'm not sure how declaring a project that is in fact feature-complete to be completed is a 'stupid joke'. I would argue that the state of Atheme after it was allowed to stagnate (due to the original core group basically feeling it was complete already), was more of a joke. But maybe you liked the broken last.fm integration that was added -- who knows. If you read the announcement, it is our goal that other people take the codebase and do what they want with it. Nothing childish there? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TheNeohteny · 2014-09-19 23:21 nenolod forcing himself back into the leader position of atheme was pretty hilarious and sad at the same time ---------------------------------------------------------------------- techhelper1 · 2014-09-21 00:43 Anope or srvx anyone? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- j4jackj · 2014-09-24 06:55 Start from scratch, mang. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- j4jackj · 2014-09-24 06:56 X3 or Anope. Take your pick, I like them both. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2014-09-26 17:29 [deleted] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- XavierNite · 2014-11-12 14:33 It's sad that Atheme is winding down but it's only logical that it would end one day. I'm personally excited to see what the future holds for the forks here & the forks to come. I'll probably keep using Atheme until it truly is end of life (security updates stop) & keep an eye on development of forks in the meantime. I would be lying if I didn't say I am a little scared what direction forked projects will go, but as jdhore already said, I think there will be some awesome forks. It's a matter of choosing the right one, or hell, maybe even fork it yourself if you are gutsy like that. I'm getting the vibe that you guys don't hear this enough, so here it goes: Thanks for the years of creating quality software for free /u/nenolod, /u/jdhore1, and the rest of you guys who have worked so hard over the years. Good luck on your future ventures. :) ~xnite