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Better, if you still have contacts, I encourage you to reach out to some of those devs involved. Otherwise, read wisely. It seems that Bukkit had just been goi

Better, if you still have contacts, I encourage you to reach out to some of those devs involved. Otherwise, read wisely. It seems that Bukkit had just been going on too long under it's quasi-relationship with Mojang. Semi-blessed but not supported (and still technically illegal). Energy drained to a point where the developers realized that as fun as Bukkit was they might like to work on other things after so many years. This point has been almost entirely lost on the reddit lynch mob. They've only been focusing on the secondary event, the DMCA take down and it's effects. This was also significant, but I don't think people appreciate that even if Bukkit were still up and, like you said, "devs [...] keep adding features [...] upgrading", the very heart of the project was already walking away. I really wish Bukkit would have been able to find a better footing to build atop of than relying on distributing Mojang's code sans license, putting them in a legal bind. If they would have had that technological footing early on, I think Mojang would have actually been more legitimately supporting of more of their efforts. Instead, they only turned their eye to the violations, and skirted the issue leaving it ambiguous. Eventually the ambiguity without change got to the core team and they decided to close up shop.

Cogito 12y ago
I've started going through the 'goodbye' posts from various team members that mbaxter assembled[1]. I feel a profound sense of loss reading through and remembering the many interactions over the years. When I read lukegb's[2] account in particular I almost broke down. Luke is someone I still have the contact details of (in fact I could probably find most of the guys on irc or through various social network profiles) and I reached out directly to thank him. He was one of the few still involved today who was with us at the start. I was incredibly humbled, and grateful (there are tears in my eyes as I write this), when he listed me along side the 4 who were acquired by Mojang - "Thanks to @Dinnerbone, @Grum, @Tahg, @Cogito, @EvilSeph for kicking off such an amazing project that’s been a big part of my life" Minecraft is almost no part of my life today, but I can say for sure I wouldn't be where I am without these people and the Bukkit project. It's sad to see it in turmoil like this, but as you say the world is a bigger place, and no open source project is worth pouring your time into when legal ambiguities abound, the community is so volatile, and the rewards are so fleeting. [1] http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/an-independent-goodbye.310086/ http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/an-independent-goodbye.3100... [2] http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/a-sysadmin-falls.310051/ http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/a-sysadmin-falls.310051/

Cogito 12y ago

I've started going through the 'goodbye' posts from various team members that mbaxter assembled[1]. I feel a profound sense of loss reading through and remembering the many interactions over the years. When I read lukegb's[2] account in particular I almost broke down. Luke is someone I still have the contact details of (in fact I could probably find most of the guys on irc or through various social network profiles) and I reached out directly to thank him. He was one of the few still involved today who was with us at the start. I was incredibly humbled, and grateful (there are tears in my eyes as I write this), when he listed me along side the 4 who were acquired by Mojang - "Thanks to @Dinnerbone, @Grum, @Tahg, @Cogito, @EvilSeph for kicking off such an amazing project that’s been a big part of my life" Minecraft is almost no part of my life today, but I can say for sure I wouldn't be where I am without these people and the Bukkit project. It's sad to see it in turmoil like this, but as you say the world is a bigger place, and no open source project is worth pouring your time into when legal ambiguities abound, the community is so volatile, and the rewards are so fleeting. [1] http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/an-independent-goodbye.310086/ http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/an-independent-goodbye.3100... [2] http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/a-sysadmin-falls.310051/ http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/a-sysadmin-falls.310051/