Late update to this:
Bukkit is dead. It's not without there being the slightest faintest possibility that it'll be revived, but you'd have to be one heck of a necromancer waving a Mojang-wand and wearing Microsoft top hat. And even if it was to be revived, we'll not see any fixes or updates for months to come.
So what's happening then, what are we going to do? Well, like most other Bukkit servers we'll have to keep running on what we have for the time being while we wait for one of the ongoing projects to get finished. At least 2 new projects have risen in the wake of Bukkit's fall and are under various levels of development at the time being. There are projects, most of them considering why they've even started, that will support Bukkit plugins and there's also those that'll make easy transition from Bukkit to their own thing.
However, we gotta have patience. Sorry guys, but you don't make a whole new API or the like in a whim. Bukkit themselves sometimes took months to handle just updates of Minecraft and these projects start from scratch. It's gonna take time. Myself I'd say I'm optimistic if I say there may be a testable version of some or more new API's in... Mars 2015? If it gets done before that I'll be pleasantly surprised and if it'll not be done till next summer, it's more along the lines of what I'm expecting.
So, that's that... Feel free to comment or even leave suggestions.
Bukkit is dead. It's not without there being the slightest faintest possibility that it'll be revived, but you'd have to be one heck of a necromancer waving a Mojang-wand and wearing Microsoft top hat. And even if it was to be revived, we'll not see any fixes or updates for months to come.
So what's happening then, what are we going to do? Well, like most other Bukkit servers we'll have to keep running on what we have for the time being while we wait for one of the ongoing projects to get finished. At least 2 new projects have risen in the wake of Bukkit's fall and are under various levels of development at the time being. There are projects, most of them considering why they've even started, that will support Bukkit plugins and there's also those that'll make easy transition from Bukkit to their own thing.
However, we gotta have patience. Sorry guys, but you don't make a whole new API or the like in a whim. Bukkit themselves sometimes took months to handle just updates of Minecraft and these projects start from scratch. It's gonna take time. Myself I'd say I'm optimistic if I say there may be a testable version of some or more new API's in... Mars 2015? If it gets done before that I'll be pleasantly surprised and if it'll not be done till next summer, it's more along the lines of what I'm expecting.
So, that's that... Feel free to comment or even leave suggestions.