During the somewhat-vauge Q&A livestream Mojang broadcasted earlier this month, they announced three new developers would be joining the Minecraft PE team. And today we learn one of them - Shoghi Cervantes!
Shoghi has been well-known in the Minecraft PE community for quite some time now, being the developer of the PocketMine project. PocketMine-MP is the most popular Minecraft PE server, comparable to Bukkit and Spigot on Minecraft PC. It has a huge userbase and powers nearly every external server on Pocket Edition. He shared on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/shoghicp/status/558538887505907712
It's not clear what affect this will have on PocketMine development. With Cervantes having developed 88% of PocketMine-MP himself (according to the GitHub repo), and solely developed many major plugins, PocketMine would most likely fade away if he quit working on it.
Shoghi has been well-known in the Minecraft PE community for quite some time now, being the developer of the PocketMine project. PocketMine-MP is the most popular Minecraft PE server, comparable to Bukkit and Spigot on Minecraft PC. It has a huge userbase and powers nearly every external server on Pocket Edition. He shared on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/shoghicp/status/558538887505907712
It's not clear what affect this will have on PocketMine development. With Cervantes having developed 88% of PocketMine-MP himself (according to the GitHub repo), and solely developed many major plugins, PocketMine would most likely fade away if he quit working on it.