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Frameworks, Forks and Distros. Oh My!

I was guest on the Joomstew Radio last week. In the first part of the interview we talked about the Nooku Project, Nooku going GPLv3, our recent team workshop and our plans for the future. 

The second part of the interview focusses on my recent blog post ‘Fork or distro, a matter of intend’. We touch on the topic fork, distros, upstream contributions, collaboration in an open source community and look at the challenges the Joomla Project is facing at the moment.


Fork or distro, a matter of intent

The announcement of Molajo spurred up the discussion in the Joomla community about the pros and cons of distributions and also raised the question if Molajo is a distribution or a fork. Let consider this question for a moment. 

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Molajo, a Joomla 1.6 distribution

Yesterday, the ATAAW community announced Molajo, a Joomla 1.6 distribution. On the roadmap for Molajo are a number of new features that didn’t make it into Joomla 1.6 such as as usability improvements, new frontend and backend template and additional administrator tools.  

More importantly with Joomla 1.6 still in beta, Molajo is also a great way to have more eyes on the code to help test and fix bugs. As Linus Law says : “given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow”.

I have been asked to help guide the Molajo Project as part of the Elders Council which I gladly accepted. The first two days have been a lot of fun. Getting to know everyone and helping to get things started.

Molajo is still looking for new contributors to help out. You don’t need to be able to code, they are also looking for testers, documentors, communicators, … designers, …

If you want to help let me know and I’m sure we can find you a place where you can put your skills to good use.