Any guesses as to a date for Joomla 1.6.x stable?

[cmendla]

According to the Joomla Site, 1.6.x beta is supposed to be out in March and 1.6.x stable is supposed to be out at the end of April 2010.

I am migrating a bunch of sites from Frontpage to Joomla. Several of these sites used blogger with FTP hosting. My thought is to move the sites to Joomla with commenting. I looked at the JComment extension.

I see my options as

1. Wait for 1.6 with the commenting so that I don't have to redo things from a 1.5.x/jcomment platform

2. Install the Beta 1.6 on one the sites that has almost no traffic to see how things go.

3. Install as 1.5.x/jcomment and switch the sites to 1.6 later on.


I am assuming that it might be better to simply wait for 1.6 stable if commenting is included.

A lot depends on when 1.6 stable will be available. I'd appreciate any guesses.

thanks

chris

[ergophobe]

just curious, but why not just use CMS that has had commenting for, say, several years already (many choices)?

[cmendla]

ergophobe

Thanks, I appreciate the lateral thinking. I'll take a look at the others over the next couple of days. I had leaned toward Joomla about a year ago and don't recall all the reasons why.

thanks..

[ergophobe]

I think the general feeling is that Joomla is one of the easier ones to get started with and has a lot of high-quality off-the-shelf templates, so a priori it's a good way to go for most people, but if what you want is commenting... there are so many out there where commenting is an integral feature that has been tested and refined for years over large user bases.

I would say most static sites that just want to add commenting and a few dynamic features could easily be ported to Wordpress even.

[baileytech]

why not just go for joomla 1.5, it works !

[travelin cat]

baileytech, because you want to be up to date as much as possible for security reasons. If you can wait and there is no burning need to move now, the new features in 1.6 will be worth the wait.

[cmendla]

Baileytech:

The problem with going with Joomla 1.5.15 is that 1.6.x is imminent. I add a couple of things to 1.5.x such as a backup app, a module that allows direct code such as google adsense, an app to handle forms, the free Search Engine Friendly module and some other stuff. In addition, I would like to add a commenting ability.

To be honest, I'm not making that much from some of the sites so I don't want to have to redo things. From what I understand, joomla 1.6.x will include commenting and the SEF module and possibly some other goodies.

I'm not sure what will be involved in converting over a 1.5.x site to a 1.6.x site.

So, my plan is to take it slowly. I have a couple of sites that are basically dead in the water (hardly any traffic). My goal is to convert them from frontpage to joomla one at a time. I'm guessing that Joomla 1.6 will be available as a stable release some time during the summer (NOTE - that is merely a wild guess). At that point I'll do the rest of the conversions on 1.6 and then go back and migrate the 1.5 sites.

[baileytech]

would all the 1.5 modules/components work in 1.6, or do we have to wait again for all the new versions to come out. i remember when i went form 1.0 to 1.5 and had to wait ages to get some good components. now though 1.0 looks very old compared to 1.5

[travelin cat]

I doubt that every extension will automatically work, in fact a few may cause problems, especially the free ones.

I personally will be waiting at least three months after the introduction of 1.6 to upgrade my sites. I'll let the early adopters find the problems and then wait for the developers to respond.

[spadilla]

I am with you travelin cat - Our plan is to wait a minimum of 3-6 months before migrating to 1.6 on any of our sites.