The document discusses the state of Joomla, covering improvements to its code, increasing community involvement, adoption rates, and roadmap. Regarding code, Joomla has addressed old issues, uses version control, and plans further modernization. Its community is growing with new volunteers and developers. While adoption has declined on Google Trends, other metrics show Joomla use is steady or rising. The roadmap includes reconciling code, testing, and models like the Unified Content Model.

1. The State of Joomla!
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2. Code
People
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3. CODE
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4. CMS
Platform
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5. Architecturally Strong
Old issues cleared
Staging branch
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6. Release 3.1
Tags
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7. Easier upgrade
Pre-update checker
in one click upgrade
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8. Release 3.2
Fall 2013
Last 3.x release with new features
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9. Version Control
Tag Type Manager
RAD
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10. Web Services
UCM
Pull Tester
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11. Google Summer of Code
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12. Cloud storage APIs New media
manager WebDriver system test
MooTools to jQuery Module
modernization Frontend
semantics & accessibility
Template manager Frontend
administration Form Fields
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13. Gnome Outreach Program for Women
Frontend Editor for Modules & Menus
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14. PEOPLE
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15. Life is good.
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16. New volunteers
Steady increase
Staying around
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17. Extension developers
Quick development cycle
More committers
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18. http://developer.joomla.org/
tracker/volunteer-activity.html
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24. Could use more:
Designers
Testers
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25. ADOPTION
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26. The BAD news
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27. Google trends
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28. BETTER news
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29. http://trends.builtwith.com/
cms/Joomla!
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30. http://w3techs.com/
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31. http://w3techs.com/
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32. http://w3techs.com/
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33. Google Analytics Joomla.org
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34. Even BETTER
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35. JCM Spanish
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36. 3 year vision
Improve adoption
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37. Understand users better
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38. Marketing
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39. Balance:
Stability for current customer
Keeping current
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40. ROADMAP
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41. http://developer.joomla.org/
cms/roadmap.html
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42. 1. Reconcile Joomla! Platform code.
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43. 2. Roll back MVC Legacy Classes
In discussions
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44. 3. Embrace Rapid Application
Development
Planned for Release 3.2
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45. 4. Merge legacy library and Joomla!
library folders
Planned for Release 3.2
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46. 5. Increase Joomla! test coverage
Slow going
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47. 6. Create distributions for CMS
packages
In discussions
Need clarity on app store
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48. 7. Unified Content Model (UCM)
In development in working
group
Parts could be in place for
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49. 8. Unified Page Model
A future release
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50. 9. Unified Site Administration
Parts could be in place for
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51. 10. New Feature Implementation
Tagging (✔)
Content Versioning (3.2)
More in future releases
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52. 11. UX and Accessibility
Active UX working group
Not as Active Accessibility group
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53. 12. Internationalisation
On going work being done
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54. Questions?
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