Deceived with 6 months release cycles.

[bronston]

As a website designer, I deeply disagree with this 6 month cycle of Joomla releases.

Richer websites use some powerful add-ons and exquisite templates. Launch of non backwards compatible versions produce a lack of available add-ons (extensions) and templates, reducing the real options to a very poor market, instead of the rich still existing for 1.5.

I’ve tried to start some websites developments in 1.6, but they had to be very simple ones for that reason.

I was waiting for the new updated extensions to be developed, but many of them have stopped the process because 1.6 is already entering end of life (although I thoght 1.7 would pose no problem to 1.6 extensions and templates).

I agree with updating, but not with speed of killing cycles, and not either with the backwards uncompatibility. One year or even two years cycles would allow extensions and template developers to populate the market for each version with a variety of rich add-ons. Unless we only want to design websites with basic functions.

[mdiscenzo]

I'm kind of in agreement with the original poster. My only caveat would be if the release schedule and version advancing maintained backwards compatibility. That really is key.

Case-in-point, there are a few add-ons that I was desperately hoping would be updated to 1.6.x, and now since 1.6 is entering end-of-life status, the developer has pulled resources and is trying to wrap their heads around 1.7. Which means I've now been without that functionality for over 8 months.

There must be a happy medium somewhere in between.

[gnostic19]

agree with all that's said. Seems like priority is given to fidgety developers and not "consumers".

[sakiss]

Hi

But why did you try to use a J! version which has a sort life-support-evolution?

just to get a couple of more features? There are tones of extensions out there which offer almost any feature that someone can imagine.

[Tonie]

The happy medium is to skip the short term releases and stay with the somewhat longer supported versions. This means going from 1.5 to 1.8 to 1.11, etc.