06 02 2011
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K2 moving forward

K2 moving forward
The community of K2 has spoken through the poll I got up yesterday on the frontpage of the K2 Community website. An email was previously sent to all our members letting them know of this poll, as well as the reasons we chose to resolve into such a poll.

The verdict?

Existing K2 users are not rushing to jump to Joomla 1.6, especially knowing it's got a limited life-cycle (up until July 2011). And this is normal.


What does that mean for K2?
It means the following 2 things:
1. We will proceed and launch v2.5 of K2 for Joomla 1.5 only within February 2011. New features and especially performance improvements of up to 500% make this release a very important one to existing websites, especially the most high traffic ones...
2. We will proceed to port K2 for Joomla 1.6 and release v2.6 within April (or hopefully sooner) so new Joomla 1.6 users make use of the incredibly valuable content features K2 adds to Joomla.

In the meantime, we will explore other options as well, like perhaps a bundled Joomla & K2 distribution based on Nooku Server. Johan Janssens has given us his "blessings", so if time permits, we will explore this option as well.


What all that means?
It mean K2 has a vibrant and high-level community of people who value their content and know their priorities. Evolution itself demands we move forward (I never said the opposite either way).

So we ARE moving forward, supporting both Joomla 1.5, 1.6, 1.7 etc. but in realistic timeframes.


Thanks to everyone who participated in the previous blog post with their comments or even via Twitter or other social services.

Thanks to all the K2 users that voted as well.

A snapshot of the results (via PollDaddy) follows...

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http://polldaddy.com/poll/4504962/?view=results

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11 comments

  • bewebdev bewebdev 30 Mar 2011
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    Fotis any word on the K2 v2.5 release?

  • Fotis Evangelou Fotis Evangelou 11 Mar 2011
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    K2 v2.5 will be released this month (March 2011).

  • cocobean41 cocobean41 10 Mar 2011
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    Hi! I was wondering if there was any update on the status of K2 2.5 for Joomla 1.5?
    Is your team still planning to release it this month?
    Will it include some form of version control/workflow?

    Thanks and keep up the good work!


  • Willie Ramhorst Willie Ramhorst 04 Mar 2011
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    Fully agree.

  • Fotis Evangelou Fotis Evangelou 08 Feb 2011
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    @youjoomla [...]"even if you have said that you will not port to 1.6"[...] - We are porting K2 to 1.6, just not now (read my post). All templates will remain untouched...

  • youjoomla youjoomla 07 Feb 2011
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    Thank you for the insight Fotis. Trust me that 99% of devs support your decision , even if you have said that you will not port to 1.6.

    Currently we are porting all our products to 1.6 and until you are done with K2-16 we must offer our customers some kind of a replacement for template demos we made with K2. Current replacement is categories override feature but as you know there is no comments , tags ect. So until you are done we will keep the CSS overrides within the template and customers can take advantage of them once K2-16 goes live.

    My only question is , are you going to keep the current html and css structure used in 1.5? Otherwise it would not make sense to keep the css overrides within the templates.

    Good luck with the upgrade!


  • PufferMedia PufferMedia 07 Feb 2011
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    Fotis, Thanks for this clear first-draft/working blueprint of K2's future. What you say in this post is better than what I had been hoping to hear. I really look forward to K2 2.5 for my live sites, and being able to count on K2 in my 'toolbox' going forward. I look forward to improvements to your development environment and the great things it will bring for everyone involved, especially we consumers.

    I commit to continue to do what I can —and more!— to help K2 and JoomlaWorks going forward.


  • Fotis Evangelou Fotis Evangelou 06 Feb 2011
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    @Torettox84 Some people are hurt by this decision so they can say anything they want. And such people are usually bitter. In the end, it's the community as a whole that matters...

    I never said we're not doing K2 for Joomla 1.6. I asked the community if it was worth doing it "now". And the community has spoken: http://polldaddy.com/poll/4504962/?view=results" rel="nofollow">http://polldaddy.com/poll/4504962/?view=results


  • Torettox84 Torettox84 06 Feb 2011
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    And in the end, that's a perfectly logical decision. You need time to adapt, we ALL need time to adapt. If I'd rush into 1.6 right now, I'd have that "early 1.5 ffeeling." "Okay, so I installed the new version - but WHERE ARE MY EXTENSIONS!!!"

    Just FYI though... "some" people say you're 'crawling back'. Personally, I think you're "listening to your community". That's a HUGE difference, and some people could learn from this. ;-)


  • corestudiosnet corestudiosnet 06 Feb 2011
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    It's always good to hear such news

  • torkilj torkilj 06 Feb 2011
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    Just keep it off until May, so I can get a free beer from Amy!

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