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14 years 3 months ago #19262 by m.iannozzi
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Hello,
can I ask how many time will be support Joomla 1.5? I know that in april2012 Joomla 1.5 will go to end but what for JFBConnect?
I'm using 1.5 and I don't think that all user will update soon to 2.5.
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14 years 3 months ago #19275 by alzander
Replied by alzander on topic Joomla 1.5
We agree that many users won't be moving to 2.5 very soon. We haven't announced a formal policy yet (though we will), but we're currently planning to support Joomla 1.5 well after the April 2012 EOL date.

The current idea is that at least until Joomla 3.0 comes out (in September, I believe), we will continue adding the same features to both the Joomla 1.5 and 2.5 versions. Sometime next year (possibly early 2013), I could see halting Joomla 1.5 feature development, but continuing to do any bug-fixes or Facebook update changes as required to keep JFBConnect working on Joomla 1.5.

All of the above is absolutely not etched in stone. If there are enough users that still subscribe to JFBConnect just for the Joomla 1.5 version, we'll do everything we can to support it. It will really just be something we have to watch to see what our user's need. In the long run though, it will be impossible to keep JFBConnect up-to-date for Joomla 1.5 forever. Facebook simply changes too fast to keep making maintenance releases in 2015.

We do plan to give 6 months notice before we'd stop development on the Joomla 1.5 version. That allows any of our users time to prepare. It's also the only fair thing to do for new users. If they're using Joomla 1.5, they will need to know our extension may not work for them during the entire length of their subscription.

Hope that all makes sense. If you have any feedback, we'd love to hear it.

Alex
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14 years 3 months ago #19290 by m.iannozzi
Replied by m.iannozzi on topic Joomla 1.5
Thanks a lot for your feedback and Yes, I think that all have make a sense. I understand that is impossible to release new update forever for Joomla 1.5 and also me I want to upgrade to Joomla 2.5 or 3.0 but not in near future. It would be nice to have at least bug fixes and security updates to work with joomla 1.5 at least for another year. Even without new features.
But I understand that much depends on how many users will need it.
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14 years 3 months ago #19318 by mtk
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m.iannozzi wrote: Thanks a lot for your feedback and Yes, I think that all have make a sense. I understand that is impossible to release new update forever for Joomla 1.5 and also me I want to upgrade to Joomla 2.5 or 3.0 but not in near future. It would be nice to have at least bug fixes and security updates to work with joomla 1.5 at least for another year. Even without new features.
But I understand that much depends on how many users will need it.

IMHO (not an official SourceCoast answer):
The termination of the Joomla 1.5 support was announced many months ago (somewhere before J!2.5 development has even started), and although April 2012 is the official date, major security fixes will be done until release of 3.0 in September 2012 . This should have given (and also should still give) both 3rd Party Developers to prepare their extensions for Joomla 2.5 but also Site Owners to move forward (aka Migrate).
Since JFBC (and JLinked) already have a J!2.5 support, there is no point in continue supporting the J!1.5 version a year after J!1.5 support was terminated, since there might be issues in JFBC (not necessarily security issues) that should be solved in Joomla's Core which will never be fixed and fixing them from the 3rd Party Extension point of view is not the best coding practice (or even worse an easy/possible task).

Since Joomla.org is allowing another 5-6 months of security fixes after the official support termination date, it should be enough for all the 3rd Party extensions (and also JFBC & JLinked) to allow this extended support as well.

On a personal dev-to-dev note: you should not wait for the last day (aka April 2012, or September 2012) to migrate to J!2.5.
Start contacting your favorite 3rd Party extensions that still do not have J!2.5 support for their extensions (unlike SourceCost) now. if you fail to do that, start looking for alternative extensions that do already support J!2.5 and will replace the extensions currently used on your website/s.

Again, this is only my own humble opinion and an official answer from SourceCost will be considered and publicly announced.

Mati
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14 years 3 months ago #19341 by alzander
Replied by alzander on topic Joomla 1.5
Mati is definitely correct that you shouldn't wait until the last minute to migrate. We understand it can be a difficult undertaking, and one that we're in the planning process of right now (this site is on Joomla 1.5). We do plan to keep our customers happy for a while, and Joomla 1.5 is frankly pretty stable, so we will continue to support it. Additionally, there's only a minimal amount of code differences in our releases for 1.5 and 2.5. When 3.0 comes out, that will change things, and likely accelerate our stopping of development of the 1.5 compatibility. We don't want to support 3 major versions as that can get very complex.

It sounds like your on the right track though with wanting to move, just needing more time. Again, we'll give ample warning before JFBConnect is no longer supported on Joomla 1.5.

Best of luck,
Alex
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