Is there still a lot of mind share being put into new features/development? or is the project dieing?
There is no doubt that FusionPBX is a great product, and I'm sure it will continue to be so for many, many years. The project is certainly not dying, the FusionPBX team has grown very well, I'm guessing the membership payments that many of us make is helping to fund this.
My personal three big issues at the moment are:
1. Despite my membership contribution, there is no new stable release.
2. Member only applications are closed source (not acceptable on my platform, despite me being a member).
3. Many good ideas from the community have not found their way into the project.
From my own perspective, I would like to see a truly open PBX project where the whole community is involved, everyone has access to update code, and it is completely open source. I would also like to see it built on a framework that is robust and future proof with the GUI look and feel separated from the business logic. The framework also needs to have excellent documentation so anyone will find it easy to add additional applications to the project. I would like to see Call Center wall boards available free of charge, and also a full REST API available for everyone.
I have been working on such an idea for over a year now, it has seen many false starts and many frameworks have been evaluated and rejected. At one point I even designed my own very light weight framework but then realised that, by doing so, I would fall into the trap that Fusion finds itself in.
The bottom line is that we are all where we are now through using the great product that is FusionPBX. I have spent hours, days and weeks helping people to use and understand FusionPBX and hope I have contributed, at least in a small way, to its success. It is now time for me to go in a very slightly different direction.
I will publish what we have done in the coming months for comment and feedback - It is NOT a FusionPBX replacement, it will be essentially what I, personally, need to run my VoIP business, and I hope that others and the Fusion team will benefit from my work.