Author Topic: How about a community consensus white paper for Joomla 1.6? (Read 2687 times)

FatherShawn · March 10, 2008, 11:05:15 am

The Joomla team is soliciting white papers for features/improvements to include in Joomla 1.6.

I see that sbrawner wrote a paper requesting ACL and that got me to wondering, what if we composed a comprehensive paper encompassing all the improvements that would make Joomla better for the CiviCRM community?

There is about a week until the deadline...

mcsmom · March 11, 2008, 08:51:16 pm

FatherShawn,

Cool idea. What are you thinking about?

One thing that came up recently on the jbs list was making the installer work more flexibly for heavy weight extensions, though I don't know if Andrew had something this heavy weight in mind. I think that is a candidate for 1.6 for sure.

http://groups.google.com/group/joomlabugsquad/browse_thread/thread/484b6b39c4f6967c

What's challenging is that I don't hink we've come close to taking advantage of the Joomla! 1.5 API for civicrm and we won't start to know about that until 2.1.

FatherShawn · March 12, 2008, 04:35:08 am

Well, I have some clues, but I'm not versed enough in the code to be specific. I do know that I've read a variety of things here - usually in comparison to Drupal - along the theme of "Joomla doesn't provide..." Such as:

ACL
"hooks" to keep users and contacts in sync

I'm betting that there must be other ways that it could be improved from a CiviCRM perspective. A community generated or "open source" paper seems like a good way to produce the best list of improvements.

mcsmom · March 12, 2008, 05:25:15 am

Well to have a chance of being one of the ones accepted, it need to be pretty specific.

It's pretty clear to me that ACL in some form (probably using GACL) will be in 1.6 (just look how many white papers there are on that already). So Besides putting encouraging words on those threads I'd make a white paper on something else.

Maybe something about making the installer work with mega applications?

Something about making the user table interact better with other components or applications would be good. That would be hooks, right?
For a while i have thought that the guts of civicrm should probably sit directly on top of the Joomla! framework rather than being embedded in the cms and then just have the menu links and administration pages work from inside the cms.I think possibilities like that are why the framework was separated.

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