Joomla! 1.6 Alpha 2

Comment by Ron Severdia on October 27, 2009 at 6:26pm

It's rough around the edges, but under the hood there are tons of improvements. By the time beta arrives, you'll be able to create admin templates that completely rearrange the interface (even without overrides). Great for mobile platforms too. :)

Comment by Amy Stephen on October 27, 2009 at 6:29pm

Oh yea?

Comment by Ron Severdia on October 30, 2009 at 12:11am

Yep. The non-sematic markup has all been removed (along with tons of extraneous markup and inline styles) from the administrator interface. Administrator images have been moved to the template folder allowing users/developers to customize system-level images as well. Even though the back-end will be MVC, one could, theoretically, create a template that could customize everything without it.

Comment by Youjoomla on October 30, 2009 at 9:36pm

I understand that changes are a must and 1.6 has a future but can someone answer few of these questions please:

What will happened to 1.5 ? Will it be discontinued like 1.0 or ? If yes , how smart is this move ? The Joomla community went trough many troubles to convert to 1.5 and now they have to do this again. I am developer and sure will follow the future but how many Joomla users are we going to loose because of this ?

Imagine an average Joe that went from 1.0 to 1.5 and now is looking at 1.6 . What will he say ? Forget Joomla give me another CMS?

Comment by Amy Stephen on October 30, 2009 at 9:58pm

If I heard Rob Schley correctly in a Joomla! Day address, Joomla! 1.5 will be supported for a couple of years following the release of 1.6. The upgrades between 1.6 and 2.0 are supposed to occur very rapidly, I believe I heard Rob Schley say every three months. 2.0 is the "big" release and most will be encouraged to stay with 1.5, and then upgrade/migrate to 2.0. That is at least one theory, if I understand correctly.

Other CMSes are also changing in extreme ways. I don't think there is any CMS you could choose where things are staying the same. Think back a few years, would you still want your Web site to remain at that level of functionality? In a sense, it's just the price you pay.

Comment by Frank Dwyer on October 31, 2009 at 11:09am

I started with Joomla! in the 1.5 RC stage and wondered what all the fuss was about from the 1.0 folks. Now I know. Oh well -- off we go to 2.0.

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