Something must be right...see Gavick's blog post here

oh.  any eta on the 1.7 launch?  sounds like you got a lot of work ahead of you.

Is k2 gonna be marked as stable in the next 2 weeks?

It would have been better if K2 was paid component :(

At this rate I'm going to have to leave K2 behind and find something else. I love K2 but I want to update my site and I've been holding back on doing so.

 

Every other mod and com I have are all based off of K2 so I've had to wait so I didn't have a completely non-functional site. All of these mods and coms have updated for 1.7 and K2 has not.  As I said I don't want to go but may not have a choice here soon. I have to get my site ready for the holidays and can't be reliant on a beta version. I do hope this will be working soon. I'm giving it another 2 weeks then will begin trying to migrate to something else.

I wanted to share my experiences with everyone. I have been following this thread for a while now and like everyone else here really do love K2 and hope for a release soon. That being said, I had a 1.5 site that used K2 and the client really wanted to upgrade to 1.7. I decided to give it a go with the K2 2.5 SVN. All said and done it now functions and works well minus one issue I didn't look into fixing. That is item ordering does not work int he admin. Other than that I was able to get everything else working OK, BUT it was a huge headache and took some skills. If you don't have some My SQL and Php My admin skills, you might as well forget it. My approach was to export the tables from the 1.5 version and import them into the 1.7 version. First problem upon inspection is that the permissions were not copied. This made it so you could not browse to any K2 item in the front end without a 404. I had to bulk update the permissions column in the database for all items and categories. Now I could see the items in the frontend. Next, i wasn't able to save anything in K2. No category or item changes. The error I received was about a missing language column. Again I bulk updated the items and categories tables. I added a language column. This solved it. Next, all images were lost. Had to redo them. Not practical for a big site. In my case it was only about 30-40. Attachments did not work either. They were in the proper folder media/k2/attachments. The association to the files was not working. 404 page. I eventually found a post in this forum to direct link to attachments. That worked and I was back in business. Finally the settings for categories (ie comments off, hits on) appeared to be copied over when viewing in the front end, but if you decided to edit and item or category, they were all lost and reverted back to default. So I had to redo the setting for the categories. Not too bad since most inherited theirs from one or two categories. All in all it was a learning experience. As of now, I have a fully functional 1.7 site running K2 2.5 SVN, but it WAS a hassle and not practical for most. I am hoping that K2 releases a migration tool when the stable version is out to avoid all the pitfalls i have had. My two cents. If you really want to migrate your site now, it will be a pain and you will not be happy while you are doing it. Once it is done, it works but still a huge hassle. I would also suggest cloning your site and doing on a dev server so you can work through it over time. All and all the SVN seems pretty stable once it was all running. I think installed it on a new 1.7 site would be OK. Hopefully they will iron out the remaining bugs and get a item migrator in place and we might be in business.........................hopefully before Joomla 3.5 is released. :)

helleo, i need k2 for joomla 1.7.1 ... pleasee !!!!

 

date of release ??

Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Is this a joke?? ahahahaha

Sorry, but this issue has already exceeded the ridiculous long ago, and have already fallen into total farce

K2 has become a joke

Falling foul of my own curiosity I decided to come back to this thread after a fair few weeks from comment... Just to see if there was/is any progress. I had several responses from 'loyal' fans that made me feel arrogant, inadequate or stupid for asking where the hell K2 for 1.7 is. Well guys... It still isn't here and I'm no longer clinging on in hope of K2. It was great in its day but I think that day has come and gone

 

I have always been a fan/user/contributor to "open source" CMS but all this failure has done is fuelled the fire of those that insist proprietary systems having a more responsive support. A weakness has been exposed in my business due to lack of support/comment from vendors of systems like K2 and with no response as to when/IF an update will come

 

The good news here (and I’m sure I’m not alone) is that, being a professional that uses/relies on Joomla,Wordpress, Modx and Magento for the foundation of my business, that I need to be VERY careful which modules/widgets/components I use in future client work.

 

I really hoped the guys would deliver but so far this thread has been IGNORED by ‘official’ response. Farewell to a great component… And please don’t waste your time or pixels flaming me fan boys. It’s over for me.

Hi Chris,

 

What alternative to K2 are you using or going to use?

 

Thanks

 

Chris James said:

Falling foul of my own curiosity I decided to come back to this thread after a fair few weeks from comment... Just to see if there was/is any progress. I had several responses from 'loyal' fans that made me feel arrogant, inadequate or stupid for asking where the hell K2 for 1.7 is. Well guys... It still isn't here and I'm no longer clinging on in hope of K2. It was great in its day but I think that day has come and gone

 

I have always been a fan/user/contributor to "open source" CMS but all this failure has done is fuelled the fire of those that insist proprietary systems having a more responsive support. A weakness has been exposed in my business due to lack of support/comment from vendors of systems like K2 and with no response as to when/IF an update will come

 

The good news here (and I’m sure I’m not alone) is that, being a professional that uses/relies on Joomla,Wordpress, Modx and Magento for the foundation of my business, that I need to be VERY careful which modules/widgets/components I use in future client work.

 

I really hoped the guys would deliver but so far this thread has been IGNORED by ‘official’ response. Farewell to a great component… And please don’t waste your time or pixels flaming me fan boys. It’s over for me.

 

Hi Garzarath

I have been playing with Zoo from YooTheme on a updated client Joomla 1.5 site (currently still in development) which I'm converting to J 1.7 and removing K2 from as I just can't wait any longer and don't have the time to hack and molest the code to make K2 work

With Zoo you can pay for 'app bundles' that add some functionality/layouts for example 'blogs' etc BUT like all powerful CCK or Joomla components it has a learning curve. 

The other alternative is seblod which I have dabbled with but found Zoo more my style... Like many people here I loved K2 but it just isn't keeping up with movement... I understood the original "We won't support J1.6 because J1.7 is out in a few months" comment from Fotis, however it has just gone on so long now that sounds like a painful excuse for "We got you hooked but we can't be bothered to support you because we have money to make on our other modules etc..."

 

Garzarath said:

Hi Chris,



What alternative to K2 are you using or going to use?



Thanks

Like Chris, I'm stuck with projects under development that will have to be finished under J1.7, and now we're moving all of our new clients to Zoo. They're cleanly coded and (relatively) easy to modify to suit specific client needs, but I also have to say Zoo support and documentation lacks a bit... it's much easier to find answers in the K2 forums.

 

In order to develop sites more complex than Joomla offers out of the box, I'm more than willing to pay a small licensing fee even if it's a largely community driven project – if for no other reason than to incentivize timely updates and maintenance schedules. I like the whole idea of open source development, but this is exactly the problem with the model... we, as developers, make decisions about which tools to standardize on, and we look bad when the tools don't keep up with the platform.

 

I'm not intending this as a rant, I just hate going to the client on an upgrade path and having to explain that half of the work we did will have to be un/redone because certain tools aren't keeping up. And like Chris, I'd probably have a slightly different reaction if the K2 leaders were regularly updating us with the status of the project...

I feel your pain Mick. That just happened to us. (See post from me on page 16.) Like many clients it takes forever to get anything done. When we first engaged the client, we praised K2 a lot and suggested we use it for their project since it was going to be under 1.5. The site was started, stopped, stalled and back in progress. Then the clients decided that before launch it would be better to convert to 1.7. They had been updating the site for a while and had 40-50 items in K2. Now what? Tell them K2 isn't keeping up after we spoke so highly of it? Tell them they now have to learn another system when they spent the past several months using and learning K2. Quite a mess. I opted to give the conversion a go using K2 2.5 and J1.7. It went OK for the most part, but of course I am nervous that issues will crop up and without regular updates to K2, I will be forced to solve all the problems myself. Seems to me like K2 might be better off letting its community update and maintain it. Anyway, from this point forward I am heeding the advice of Chris. I will vet my choices of software better and think about the long term (Zoo, Sebold) ................but I think everyone here expected more. Joomlaworks has been around for a while and up until this issue with K2 seemed like they were in it to win it. How can your component be voted best new extension and then you don't keep it up? Makes no sense. Health issues aside, the crew at Joomlaworks should at the very least be keeping its users in the loop.

Agreed

Dan Riefstahl said:
I feel your pain Mick. That just happened to us. (See post from me on page 16.) Like many clients it takes forever to get anything done. When we first engaged the client, we praised K2 a lot and suggested we use it for their project since it was going to be under 1.5. The site was started, stopped, stalled and back in progress. Then the clients decided that before launch it would be better to convert to 1.7. They had been updating the site for a while and had 40-50 items in K2. Now what? Tell them K2 isn't keeping up after we spoke so highly of it? Tell them they now have to learn another system when they spent the past several months using and learning K2. Quite a mess. I opted to give the conversion a go using K2 2.5 and J1.7. It went OK for the most part, but of course I am nervous that issues will crop up and without regular updates to K2, I will be forced to solve all the problems myself. Seems to me like K2 might be better off letting its community update and maintain it. Anyway, from this point forward I am heeding the advice of Chris. I will vet my choices of software better and think about the long term (Zoo, Sebold) ................but I think everyone here expected more. Joomlaworks has been around for a while and up until this issue with K2 seemed like they were in it to win it. How can your component be voted best new extension and then you don't keep it up? Makes no sense. Health issues aside, the crew at Joomlaworks should at the very least be keeping its users in the loop.

I have to say I am not surprised that the K2 team is non-existent in giving us an update. My experience with this team has proven time and time again that they act more like small children and are not responsible enough to have taken on this large of a project. Like Chris I am done with these childish games and will also be looking to the future where I only support developers that act mature enough to backup their code and not ignore the community that made them what they are. It will be a cold day in hell before I ever use a Joomla Works product again. Hmmm Joomla Works... That sounds like the crap that Microsoft put out "Microsoft Works" and both have proven that they DON'T work!

From Twitter @joomlaworks - Exciting next week for K2 as in… new K2 out & new getk2.org out! Woohoo!I really don't understand why the user base here has been ignored and kept in the dark. What was once an essential install for me has become something I'm desperate never to use again.For me a free K2 with paid add-ons would have made a decent business plan for Joomlaworks and something I would probably have bought into. Now I won't touch it with a barge pole.

Ya its truly good news for all K2 lovers, New version for K2 and new getk2.org coming soon! check out its pre-release info here : community.getk2.org/profiles/blogs/new-version-for-k2-and-new-getk2-org-coming-soon

A ton of thanks K2 team... waiting for the release date.

Well let's hope it really is a case of good things come to those that wait!