I've been using PHP for a long time, and I've seen frameworks come and go.

To me, the most important part of this announcement isn't another feature. It's the decision to stop adding major features for a while. A framework is infrastructure. Once you have applications running on it, stability becomes far more valuable than novelty. I've maintained systems for years where the original code was perfectly adequate, but the surrounding framework kept changing and created unnecessary work. I think a year of stability is a sensible decision.

I also like that you're not saying development has stopped. Bugs will still be fixed, documentation can improve and small things can be refined. There's a big difference between maintaining a framework and continually redesigning it.

Anyway, congratulations on getting Flo completed. I remember when framework tooling was a lot less sophisticated than this, so it's good to see how far things have come.

Now perhaps we can all get back to writing applications.

Martin

I like the idea of having a year without major changes. I'm still learning PHP, so sometimes it feels like there is always something new to learn. It would be nice to have the framework stay stable while I concentrate on learning and building things.

I also agree with Martin about getting back to writing applications. I spend a lot of time following tutorials and copying examples, so I think I need to start building some small projects myself now.

Congratulations on getting Flo finished. It looks like there is already a lot to learn and use with Trongate.

Tina