@troester, I totally agree, as "community project", maybe even with endless powwow among a large number of people, it won't go anywhere.
So, yes, IMHO there'll need money to be put on the table, and me thinks/hopes that the planned meeting could help clarifying at least a few points around the topic.
As small as the chance for a "pro" route seems, admittedly, once that were set, it could go at a somewhat decent pace. So, while there are definitely reasons for pessimism -- nope, I'm not willing to give up before "pro" options have been thoroughly evaluated.
Yeah, time keeps passing, and that's not great at all. Always something we have no control over.
TL;DR:
Either way, there won't be a "Fabrik 4" real quick. If ever.
Meanwhile life goes on, and so do the Interwebs. As we want or need to keep our sites running, or build new sites, what's wrong about using working, stable, known and
available tools for the time being? Especially since no equivalent is known, and at present that new model "F4" or so is only a wet dream?
Read on if you like:
It just seems that a few users
must switch to J!4 here and
now. Noticed that in other forums and circles, too. While this may be doable for some sites, it is not and won't be for all. Because many extensions are not yet J!4-ready (or buggy), it'll take their devs another while, if they'll ever make it -- Fabrik is just one of those. Maybe those fellow users don't know what it takes to make their wish come true? That I'd understand.
Anyway, I bet we'll see many, many J!3 sites -- not only with Fabrik -- staying live long after J!3's end of support, just like today we still see many, many live sites on J!3.5/3.6/3.7 (two of which I definitely know: site owners have decided there's no budget for upgrading...), eventually under PHP 5.4/5.5/5.6...
Compare with J!2.5 -> J!3. Remember, J!2.5 sites kept running for years after EOS/EOL. And probably even quite a number of them is still up, haha!
Yes yes, I know, all not good, and sure not advisable.
I'm in preps of a larger project these weeks/days. As it looks, Fabrik would come in really handy. Thanks to the benefits of Fabrik, I'd have no problem -- actually, I'd prefer -- sticking with J!3 but get dev work started now and the site live within a foreseeable time, rather than going with J!4 and whatever workarounds I'll be able to find, or putting it on ice and "waiting for Fabrik 4", however long that might take, if ever.
Supposedly, J!3.10.x gives us an upgrade route to J!4. So, either I'll make use of this later once either Fabrik 4 falls out of the blue sky or, if not, I've managed to find an alternative during the many moons to come, or the site might end up running under J!3 beyond official EOS... until there is an efficient better way?
Still not panicking...