I just saw the announcement on phpbb.com about them about to go RC1
This is pretty good news for some of us who have been developing mods, themes, and hacks for it, but also raises a few questions about other developer plans.
I know several devs/sites that are developing their own versions, mods, portals, upgrades etc for phpbb3. Will the development of these projects become known to the public when RC1 is out?
Me and some others were apparently right on target about the release date, but I imagine the changes are more than they are letting on. With the resigning of theFinn there is no telling what direction phpbb will go. I am afraid all that was standing in the way of leaving originality, features, and possibly even the free nature of phpbb was theFinn.
After some pretty weird changes, and deterioration of the once "glad to help" nature of phpbb.com it isn't looking good.(In the eyes of the paranoid lol)