eZ Publish: to fork or not to fork
The next weeks will be my last ones as employee of eZ Systems Belgium. About 3 months ago I finally came to this decision, considering it for a few months already. Turning around such pages in one’s life comes with many mixed thoughts and feelings.
As initiator of the eZ Publish PHP 5-compatible community fork, and later on – as employee of eZ Systems – one of the driving forces behind eZ Publish 4 , I still feel closely connected to the eZ Publish codebase though. Unfortunately during the last one and a half year, very less happened to this code base. eZ Systems’ focus changed a lot, maybe will change again in the future, but that’s unpredictable, it remains a company wich has as goals – like about each company – to be profitable.
I feel it’s time to wonder, if it isn’t time for a community-driven fork of eZ Publish, which can evolve much faster than the current product, as there are too many commercial factors having to be taken into account for it.
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