Joomla PLT Summit Feedback

Joomla! PLT Summit Feedback JoomlaDay UK 2010 Ipswich, UK 30 October 2010

PLT Summit 2010 What did we talk about? • We talked a bit about 1.6. • But mostly we talked about the future. • We discussed and agreed our new development strategy. • We sketched out our vision for the next release. • We discussed a process for approving new features. 30 October 2010 Copyright © 2010 Open Source Matters Inc.

PLT Summit 2010 What's wrong with the current development process? • Release cycle is too long (2 to 3 years!). • Too many changes in each release. • Uncertainty about when a new release will be available. • Most development right now is focussed on bug-fixing, so... • There is a lack of excitement in the developer community. 30 October 2010 Copyright © 2010 Open Source Matters Inc.

PLT Summit 2010 http://developer.joomla.org/strategy.html • Time-based instead of scope-based releases. • Stable trunk, development in branches. • Only those features that are ready will be merged in to the trunk. • Decision on what goes in rests with the PLT. 30 October 2010 Copyright © 2010 Open Source Matters Inc.

PLT Summit 2010 http://developer.joomla.org/strategy.html • New release every 6 months. • Every third release is Long-term Support. • More emphasis on testing. 30 October 2010 Copyright © 2010 Open Source Matters Inc.

PLT Summit 2010 Open development process • Joomla Ideas Pool – UserVoice: voting, commenting. – Remember that not everything will get in. • Feature Patch Tracker • Before the start of each development cycle: – the PLT will look at ideas from these and other sources. – announce a vision or theme for the next cycle. 30 October 2010 Copyright © 2010 Open Source Matters Inc.

PLT Summit 2010 Stuff we'd like to see in the “next release” • Improved search indexing – Search performance, search accuracy, intelligent weight ranking. • Dependency management for extensions – Allows required components, modules, plugins to be found and installed automatically. • Site backups and working copy / site change tracker – Ability to backup from within Joomla. – Create and maintain test site and push changes to live site. 30 October 2010 Copyright © 2010 Open Source Matters Inc.

PLT Summit 2010 But wait, there's more... • Integrated core updater – Ability to automatically check for updates to the CMS and install the updates. • Improved Media Manager – Platform improvements to handle image manipulation for all types of media. – Improved integration with external media sites (YouTube and so on). 30 October 2010 Copyright © 2010 Open Source Matters Inc.

PLT Summit 2010 But wait, there's even more... • Comments – Implement component comments in the core CMS. • Tagging – Implement a tagging solution in the core CMS. • Automatic logging of errors and user activity – including email notification of site errors. • Option to install language packs from repository during Joomla! installation 30 October 2010 Copyright © 2010 Open Source Matters Inc.

PLT Summit 2010 The Joomla Platform Project • The Joomla Framework will be spun off as an independent, modular project which lives upstream from the Joomla CMS project. • The Platform will evolve and improve more rapidly and in directions other than what the CMS demands. • The CMS Project can choose which Platform release to base itself on. 30 October 2010 Copyright © 2010 Open Source Matters Inc.

PLT Summit 2010 The Joomla Platform Project • Quarterly releases – quarterly assignments will be to build a proof of concept application or service that centres on a theme, inspires innovation, and provides an incubator for long term project ideas. • Split will occur when 1.6 goes GA. • Goals for the first development cycle: – clean separation of Platform code from CMS. – assignment: Barebones continuous-integration application. 30 October 2010 Copyright © 2010 Open Source Matters Inc.

eBay, San Jose, California • Joomla delivers a community portal as part of eBay's internal analytics platform. • Joomla was selected after a thorough evaluation of the alternatives, not just of the code, but also of the organisation and the community. • eBay have signed the JCA. • eBay will be contributing code back to the project. 30 October 2010 Copyright © 2010 Open Source Matters Inc.

eBay, San Jose, California "Enterprises need to learn how to embrace open source. Open source is not about downloading free software and installing it. It is about contributing. It should be used for non-intellectual- property aspects of the company. Seventy percent to 80% of a company runs on standards, on products that are not the core of the business. Companies need to realize, if you can work with an open source community, contribute back, the sum of all moving parts is so much bigger than what you can ever do by yourself. We don’t want to own custom code." Oliver Ratzesberger Senior Director of Analytics Platform, eBay 30 October 2010 Copyright © 2010 Open Source Matters Inc.

Microsoft Microsoft • They are engaging with us on OUR terms. • They have signed the JCA. • Very few open source projects can say that. • They have already contributed code under the GPL to the Joomla source repository. 30 October 2010 Copyright © 2010 Open Source Matters Inc.

Microsoft Microsoft • Ensure that Joomla, as a PHP application, runs natively on the Microsoft platform. • Ensure that Joomla runs well on IIS. • Joomla is now officially supported on IIS. • See wiki page: http://docs.joomla.org/IIS • Web Platform Installer (WebPI). • Helping with database/query abstraction coding and Microsoft SQL Server. 30 October 2010 Copyright © 2010 Open Source Matters Inc.

Joomla Press Announcement Financial Times Penguin Prentice Hall Addison-Wesley Longman Edexcel • Pearson are one of the largest book publishers in the world. • Last year sales in excess of £5.6 billion. • And they're British! • “Joomla Press” imprint. • First Joomla Press book should be available in December. 30 October 2010 Copyright © 2010 Open Source Matters Inc.

JoomlaDay USA West 2010 Joomla in the Enterprise • Three very different relationships with three very large enterprises. • Selling Joomla to corporate clients just got a whole lot easier. 30 October 2010 Copyright © 2010 Open Source Matters Inc.

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