Has Joomla 1.5 been Released?
Thursday, 01 February 2007 15:49

Four clients have contacted me over the last couple of weeks asking whether Joomla 1.5 is ready/when its coming out. There is definately more activity going on, but that that's not very useful. I thought I would try and come up with some more solid metrics to measure the arrival of the new baby.

I call it "Countdown to 1.5"

I am pulling data from the source forge to get the following table

Date# Commits Open Bugs
Thursday Jan 31st 3334
Friday Feb 1st 18
34
Saturday Feb 2nd 533
Sunday Feb 4th31
-
Monday Feb 5th--
Tuesday Feb 6th - 32

I am guessing that when the open bugs goes to zero, we should be hearing an announcement at www.joomla.org!

Some caveats:

  1. I took a longer snapshot and Thursday and Friday always have the most commits. Someone seems to be eating their wheaties on those days.
  2. I have no idea whether this is valid or not, but its fun to watch!

More Ohloh

A while back I blogged about the dollar value of the Joomla project based on a tool at www.ohloh.com. They have a new look on their site, here is what they have to say about the Joomla project:

Factoid: "Very large, active development team"

Over the past twelve months, 27 developers contributed new code to Joomla!. This is one of the largest open-source teams in the world, and is in the top 2% of all project teams on Ohloh.


Factoid: "Well-commented source code"

Across all PHP projects on Ohloh, 24% of all source code lines are comments. For Joomla!, this figure is 35%. This high number of comments puts Joomla! among the highest one-third of all PHP projects on Ohloh. A high number of comments might indicate that the code is well-documented and organized, and could be a sign of a helpful and disciplined development team.

They even have a great handy badge you can put on your site:

Want to help develop a project that is valued at over $2,000,000? Make a donation now!

If you have a major credit card (Visa, MasterCard, American Express) or a PayPal account, donating is easy. Just click the image below to donate:

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