Seems entirely reasonable.<p>The response to this highlights something I've noticed watching Open Source stuff for a while: this attitude that a piece of software can never simply be <i>finished</i>, but that it must constantly be changing to be alive.<p>This is a good example of that. Bootstrap 3 has been out for a while and it mostly works for the things it was designed to work for. If you look hard enough, you can find bugs and situations where it's not suitable to use. But that's fine. It's a super valuable thing that we all get for free. The new site I'm building on it looks way prettier than it ever would if I was designing it myself, and will remain so indefinitely, even if these guys never commit anything else to the project.<p>I don't see anything wrong with the guys who built it stamping it "done" and moving on to the next thing.
<i>edit: title changed, thank you.</i><p>Development is probably stopping on v3, sure, but that doesn't mean it will completely be unsupported and ignored. Let's say there is some major bug in v3 that comes out soon, you better believe it will be addressed. Otto just wants to push faster on v4 by dropping all existing split dev work.
On one hand, at least browsers are good about maintaining backwards-compatibility of CSS, so that pages that look okay with bootstrap 3 will continue looking okay for a good time.<p>On the other hand, slapping "Don't care" label on all the issues of the current stable version seems... bit excessive.<p>All in all, makes me happy I only use bootstrap for the CSS, and not the JS-based interactions.
For all of you who have contributed free and open source software in your spare time, thank you so much for your contributions. I have used your projects personally and at work and have not given back as much as I have contributed. You owe me <i></i>nothing<i></i>. I have not paid any of you anything, and no doubt while I was riding my bike, doing some woodworking, or any other number of leisure activities...you were working on a project, probably often outside of your work hours. I have absolutely no say (in my opinion) on what you choose to do with your free time, including whether you decide to spend your limited free time developing a new version...which in this case may mean that you then don't have the time to continue to bugfix the previous version. If I <i>really</i> don't like it, well then I better step up with some money to fund some support or do the support myself.
We just had had a thread about the new v4 Alpha 4 [1], in which several people reacted incredulously [2][3][4] at why developers would feel pressured to upgrade from v3 to v4 for existing projects.<p>This news, not even 24 hours later, confirms others' and my fears [5], that v4's arrival will mean the cessation of releases -- including bugfix and maintenance releases -- on the v3 line, effectively making it abandoned.<p>[1] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12432136" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12432136</a>
[2] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12432546" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12432546</a>
[3] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12433663" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12433663</a>
[4] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12432666" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12432666</a>
[5] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12432915" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12432915</a>
"Bootstrap 3 is no longer supported"... And no final bootstrap 4 release yet. So, there is NO supported stable bootstrap versions at all right now? :-/
Yes Bootstrap4 has been taking too long to the point I wanted to find an alternative.<p>Maybe a fund-raise to have someone work on it full time, the way like what vue.js does?