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Joomla! “All together” Joomla!day Presentation Rome, Italy 19 January 2008

Joomla!day Presentation

Rome, Italy

About Me Wilco Jansen aka Willebil Joomla! Core Team Member Development Working Group Coordinator

Presentation Overview The Joomla! Project How are we organized? How can you get involved? Our current status...let’s throws some statistics Joomla! branches

The Joomla! Project

How are we organized?

How can you get involved?

Our current status...let’s throws some statistics

Joomla! branches

What is Joomla? Joomla! is an award-winning Content Management System (CMS) that will help you build websites and other powerful online applications. Best of all, Joomla! is an open source solution that is freely available to everybody. The Joomla! project

Joomla! is an award-winning Content Management System (CMS) that will help you build websites and other powerful online applications. Best of all, Joomla! is an open source solution that is freely available to everybody.

Where are our users located? The Joomla! project

Where are our users located? The Joomla! project

Joomla! concepts Opensource Freedom Choice Control Fun Ease of use End User Administrator Developer Designers The Joomla! project Content Management Keep is small and simple Be flexible and agile Designed to be extendible Use 80/20 rule Reduce choices Barry Swharts : video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6127548813950043200

Opensource

Freedom

Choice

Control

Fun

Ease of use

End User

Administrator

Developer

Designers

Content Management

Keep is small and simple

Be flexible and agile

Designed to be extendible

Use 80/20 rule

Reduce choices Barry Swharts : video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6127548813950043200

Joomla! philosophy Rock Solid Architecture Flexibility built on Powerful Framework Developers Tools Outstanding User experience International Recognition (50+ languages) A great community! The Joomla! project

Rock Solid Architecture

Flexibility built on Powerful Framework

Developers Tools

Outstanding User experience

International Recognition (50+ languages)

A great community!

The Joomla! project While at time it may appear at times that we do not move fast enough... In a short amount of time we have accomplished a lot! Project history The Joomla! project

The Joomla! project Project history The Joomla! project 01 September 2005 Joomla! is born 15 September 2005 Joomla! 1.0 released 17 September 2005 Joomla! opens the forge 01 January 2006 Joomla! 1.1 announcement 06 February 2006 Joomla! opens developer network 06 March 2006 Joomla! opens extensions site 12 October 2006 Joomla! 1.5 Beta released 27 October 2006 Joomla! releases official user manual 12 December 2006 Joomla! 1.0.12 released 13 March 2007 Joomla! Opens Gforge (JoomlaCode Launch) 05 May 2007 Joomla! 1.5 Beta-2 released 21 July 2007 Joomla! 1.5 RC1 released 01 September 2007 Joomla! 1.5 RC2 released 06 October 2007 Joomla! 1.5 RC3 released 19 December 2007 Joomla! 1.5 RC4 released 14 January 2008 Joomla! 1.0.14 RC released

Joomla! organisation How are we organized?

Joomla! organisation Coreteam (15 members) 3 project managers (Louis, Shayne, Johan) 7 coordinators (Rob, Shayne, Ole, Robin, Brad and Wilco) Work groups 5 work groups: infrastructure,development, translations, documentation and foundation Around 250 members in working groups Community (you): we lost count... How are we organized?

Coreteam (15 members)

3 project managers (Louis, Shayne, Johan)

7 coordinators (Rob, Shayne, Ole, Robin, Brad and Wilco)

Work groups

5 work groups: infrastructure,development, translations, documentation and foundation

Around 250 members in working groups

Community (you): we lost count...

Joomla! organisation All members are spread all over the world Timezone differences Lingual and cultural bariers Means of communication: Forum Skype (voice, video and chat) IRC Mail, mailinglists Joomla!days, gatherings, events etc. How are we organized?

All members are spread all over the world

Timezone differences

Lingual and cultural bariers

Means of communication:

Forum

Skype (voice, video and chat)

IRC

Mail, mailinglists

Joomla!days, gatherings, events etc.

Can you get involved? No matter what you think you can do, you can help! Most of the contributers start in our forum helping others out But how do I get involved into one of the working groups? Can we use people? Community Involvement

No matter what you think you can do, you can help!

Most of the contributers start in our forum helping others out

But how do I get involved into one of the working groups?

Can we use people?

Initiatives to get people involved Pizza, Bugs and Fun (PBF) Joomla Documentation Camp Google Summer Of Code Google Highly Open Participation Contest Joomla! Bug Squad Community Involvement

Pizza, Bugs and Fun (PBF)

Joomla Documentation Camp

Google Summer Of Code

Google Highly Open Participation Contest

Joomla! Bug Squad

Pizza, Bugs and Fun (PBF) Community driven initiative for fixing bugs One or more locations people come together Scan tracker, assign it, fix problem, create patch Test patch and development team member commits patch First event: 8 December 2008: New York, San Francisco, Washington DC, Brussels and Vancouver 98 commits, around 100 artifacts solved Community Involvement

Community driven initiative for fixing bugs

One or more locations people come together

Scan tracker, assign it, fix problem, create patch

Test patch and development team member commits patch

First event:

8 December 2008: New York, San Francisco, Washington DC, Brussels and Vancouver

98 commits, around 100 artifacts solved

Joomla Documentation Camp First one planned this weekend http://docs.joomla.org Locations: Brussels and Vancouver 52 people signed up to help out! Community Involvement

First one planned this weekend

http://docs.joomla.org

Locations: Brussels and Vancouver

52 people signed up to help out!

Google Summer Of Code Projects 2006 research based Siteman (J!Explorer) Node Based Scheme Extensive ACL Package manager Ajax 2007 pragmatic approach Usable end-result Co-collaboration with other OS projects (mootools and eclipse) 2007 Projects Extending the Nested Sets Model with 'Hardlinked Nested Sets’ Development of Jigg component for Joomla! 1.5 Implementation of mootools in Joomla! 1.5 framework Email Interface for Publishing Semantic Web Integration Geo-component for Joomla! Eclipse Plugin J!Code Joomla 1.5 Forum component General content recommendation component for Joomla Community Involvement

2006 research based

Siteman (J!Explorer)

Node Based Scheme

Extensive ACL

Package manager

Ajax

2007 pragmatic approach

Usable end-result

Co-collaboration with other OS projects (mootools and eclipse)

2007 Projects

Extending the Nested Sets Model with 'Hardlinked Nested Sets’

Development of Jigg component for Joomla! 1.5

Implementation of mootools in Joomla! 1.5 framework

Email Interface for Publishing

Semantic Web Integration

Geo-component for Joomla!

Eclipse Plugin J!Code

Joomla 1.5 Forum component

General content recommendation component for Joomla

Google Highly Open Participation Contest Follows on the success of the Google Summer of Code program For pre-university students, 13 to 18, from all around the world to learn about and contribute to an open source project Google invited ten projects including Joomla! to help shape the program Community Involvement

Follows on the success of the Google Summer of Code program

For pre-university students, 13 to 18, from all around the world to learn about and contribute to an open source project

Google invited ten projects including Joomla! to help shape the program

Projects participating in GHOP Community Involvement

Community Involvement

Joomla! bug Squad Focusses on scanning tracker and forum Performs testing Help out community with problems Creates patches and applies them to the code-base Team exists 2 weeks --> 20 members Community Involvement

Focusses on scanning tracker and forum

Performs testing

Help out community with problems

Creates patches and applies them to the code-base

Team exists 2 weeks --> 20 members

Joomla! In numbers (general statistics) 162.658 forum users (Jan 15) 9442 registered developers * 1648 registered projects * 2671 extensions ( extensions.joomla.org ) * On joomlacode.org since 10 March 2007 Let’s throw some statistics

162.658 forum users (Jan 15)

9442 registered developers *

1648 registered projects *

2671 extensions ( extensions.joomla.org )

www.ohloh.net Let’s throw some statistics

Joomla! branches? What is a branch? Planned branches Joomla! 1.0.x Joomla! 1.5 Joomla! branches Joomla! 1.6/7/8 & 2.0?

What is a branch?

Planned branches

Joomla! 1.0.x

Joomla! 1.5

Joomla! 1.6/7/8 & 2.0?

Joomla! branches? Joomla! 1.0 Latest stable version 1.0.13 Latest released version 1.0.14 RC: use it if you can, major security fix! Support timeframe undetermined: at least 12-18 months Joomla! 1.0.x will stay in maintenance mode Joomla! branches

Joomla! 1.0

Latest stable version 1.0.13

Latest released version 1.0.14 RC: use it if you can, major security fix!

Support timeframe undetermined: at least 12-18 months

Joomla! 1.0.x will stay in maintenance mode

Joomla! branches? Joomla! 1.5 Latest version 1.5 RC 4: use this version if you used previous RC’s! Support timeframe: until Joomla! 1.6 is out After release of Joomla! 1.5 it will go into maintenance mode and development of 1.6 will start When will 1.5 be released? Code is frozen since 17th of January ;-) ...

Joomla! 1.5

Latest version 1.5 RC 4: use this version if you used previous RC’s!

Support timeframe: until Joomla! 1.6 is out

After release of Joomla! 1.5 it will go into maintenance mode and development of 1.6 will start

When will 1.5 be released?

Code is frozen since 17th of January ;-)

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Joomla! branches? Joomla! 1.6... Call for white papers Selection of top-x white papers Regular development cycle: Alpha, Beta, RC, Stable Timetable...? Joomla! 2.0 Refactory to PHP 5.2+ Remove PHP 4 Legacy and 1.0.x backward compatability Framework level improvements like NBS, Database abstraction, new Database scheme etc. Joomla! branches

Joomla! 1.6...

Call for white papers

Selection of top-x white papers

Regular development cycle: Alpha, Beta, RC, Stable

Timetable...?

Joomla! 2.0

Refactory to PHP 5.2+

Remove PHP 4 Legacy and 1.0.x backward compatability

Framework level improvements like NBS, Database abstraction, new Database scheme etc.

Questions?