Joomla! 1.6 Keynote By Hannes Papenberg Joomla! Development Workinggroup Joomla! Release Team

What are we covering in this presentation? Changes in the development process Strategies behind Joomla! development Features of Joomla! 1.6

Changes in the development process

Strategies behind Joomla! development

Features of Joomla! 1.6

Changes in the development process Forming of the Joomla! 1.6 Release Team Opening up the mailinglists Implementing the patch process

Forming of the Joomla! 1.6 Release Team

Opening up the mailinglists

Implementing the patch process

How to participate Join the mailinglists: General Joomla! development: http://groups.google.com/group/joomla-dev-general Development of the CMS: http://groups.google.com/group/joomla-dev-cms Development of the Framework: http://groups.google.com/group/joomla-dev-framework Provide patches to fix issues Write your own feature and provide a patch for this!

Join the mailinglists:

General Joomla! development: http://groups.google.com/group/joomla-dev-general

Development of the CMS: http://groups.google.com/group/joomla-dev-cms

Development of the Framework: http://groups.google.com/group/joomla-dev-framework

Provide patches to fix issues

Write your own feature and provide a patch for this!

Features of Joomla! 1.6 ACL Nested Categories Mootools 1.2 lots of small things

ACL

Nested Categories

Mootools 1.2

lots of small things

ACL: New granular Access System for Joomla! Flexible usergroups New Access levels for viewing content Granular editing permissions

Flexible usergroups

New Access levels for viewing content

Granular editing permissions

Nested Categories Bye, bye Sections! Unlimited depth of categories Simplification of content layouts Potential for native support of multi-language sites

Bye, bye Sections!

Unlimited depth of categories

Simplification of content layouts

Potential for native support of multi-language sites

Mootools and more features Upgrade to Mootools 1.2 Performance improvements: Conversion from INI format to JSON Usage of PHP5 access modifiers Usage of PHP5 native libraries (SimpleXML) Move to JContent as a first step to a unified content model

Upgrade to Mootools 1.2

Performance improvements:

Conversion from INI format to JSON

Usage of PHP5 access modifiers

Usage of PHP5 native libraries (SimpleXML)

Move to JContent as a first step to a unified content model

Even more features Extensible parameter sets Properly refactored backend components to the MVC principle New controller dispatchers Menu item specific template parameters The PDF feature and the legacy mode have been removed

Extensible parameter sets

Properly refactored backend components to the MVC principle

New controller dispatchers

Menu item specific template parameters

The PDF feature and the legacy mode have been removed

And still more New member management with extensible user profiles Change of com_contact to the ContactDirectory A commenting system Implementation of the JForm library

New member management with extensible user profiles

Change of com_contact to the ContactDirectory

A commenting system

Implementation of the JForm library

Don't forget: Joomla is not made by little fairies. Help out! :-)

Questions?