Did you know - there will be no comments in Joomla 1.6?
Joomla 1.6 was slated to have three big features
- Nested Categories
- ACL
- Comments
Recently in an IRC chat Andrew Eddie confirmed that "comments" will not be in Joomla 1.6
As the explanation of what I feel is a major announcement is buried in a comment, how ironic is that, on that irc chat.
Read more: What's in a name - Why is it called Joomla?
We all hopefully know that joomla is a misspelling of a swahili word meaning "all together" but do you know how we chose that name or what the cms formerly known as mambo could have been called.
At the recent Joomla!Day in the Netherlands I gave my recollections of the turbulent and traumatic process involved.
Sadly I was doing most of this by memory as I no longer have any of my own records from that time, but Arno, Jean-Marie and Johan helped to fill in some of the gaps.
I'll be making this presentation again at J&Beyond later this month and maybe by then I may have filled in a few more gaps.
Read more: Joomla Supporters Club - Revisited
Almost a year a go I wrote a proposal for a "Joomla Supporters Club"
Unfortunately perhaps the timing wasn't right and despite positive comments from the Joomla community the idea sadly fell on deaf ears.
Which suprised me as it was one of the most read items on this blog in the year
In the last few weeks several people have contacted me about trying again.
So never being one to give up at the first attempt I'm making another attempt to get this off the ground.
Perhaps now is the right time to finally get the Joomla! Supporters Club up and running.
Who is the Joker in the Joomla pack?
