Dutch Joomladay 2010 Keynote Hannes Papenberg

Dutch Joomla! Day 2010 Utrecht Presentation by Hannes Papenberg

About me
Hannes Papenberg
Developer since 2005
22.04.10 Hannes Papenberg

Looking Back on 1.6 development
May 28th 2009:
-> start over with a clean trunk
October 24th 2009:
-> Alpha 2
1700 commits to trunk
An unknown number of branches with more developers and a lot more commits

Features of Joomla! 1.6
Granular Access Management
Nested Categories
Form-building class
Community features
Mootools 1.2
...and speed, speed and more speed!

Going into detail...
Granular access management
Flexible usergroups
New Access levels for viewing content
Granular editing permissions
Nested categories
Bye, bye Sections!
Unlimited depth of categories
Simplification of content layouts

Form-building class
JForm builds forms from XML definitions
Dynamically extend forms with plugins
Community features
Comments and a ratingsystem
Built in Captcha
User profiles easily extendable through plugins

All the small things...
Upgrade to Mootools 1.2
Properly refactored backend components to the MVC standard
Menu item specific template parameters
Complete PHP5
PDF and legacy mode removed

Joomla has problems
Communicationproblems
Lack of accountability
Motivated people are not encouraged
Not enough coordination
Skewed priorities

How do we solve these problems?
Communication:
Join the maillinglists
Take part in development decisions
New Homepage: developer.joomla.org
See the development-progress
Work directly in SVN
Stable trunk strategy
Work in branches
Time based releases

Joomla needs a benevolant dictator! 22.04.10 Hannes Papenberg

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