Joomla 1.6 - Joomla!Days NL 2009 #jd09nl

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
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!

Features of Joomla! 1.6
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

Nested Categories
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

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

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

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

Questions?

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