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Updating the joomla.org websites to Joomla 2.5
Written by Peter Martin   
Monday, 06 August 2012 22:39

In Holland there’s a saying (“general wisdom”) that says "At home the plumber has a leaking tap". This is often true with a lot of professionals: they do their utmost for their clients but have too little time to do the same for themselves. So why would Joomla be an exception to that rule?

leaking water tapEarlier this year (January 2012) Joomla 2.5 was released. We recommend to use the Joomla 2.5 for new sites, and migrate older versions to Joomla 2.5 if possible.  And I suppose that we now all use 2.5 for all our own and our clients' new websites...

Ehm... we just couldn't resist confirming the saying... :-)
So what about all the Joomla.org websites?

We would like to keep getting the latest software updates. And to be able to use the latest 3rd party extensions. Furthermore we’d like to enjoy the improved functionality & the improved back-end of Joomla 2.5. Therefore we would like to upgrade all our joomla.org websites to Joomla 2.5. For a couple of our website we have already been testing the migration process locally.

To get all our Joomla sites on the latest releases, we've set-up a migration plan for the following Joomla.org websites:

Overview Joomla.org sites managed by CLT
Migration by Planned Date Realization Date
joomla.org Sander July 2012  July 2012
community.joomla.org October 2012
community.joomla.org/showcase
extensions.joomla.org
forum.joomla.org no migration necessary (phpBB3)
magazine.joomla.org Olaf September 2012 September 2012
people.joomla.org
resources.joomla.org

 

Overview Joomla.org sites managed by PLT
Migration by Planned Date Realization Date
api.joomla.org no migration necessary (static HTML)
developer.joomla.org already Joomla 2.5
docs.joomla.org no migration necessary (mediawiki)
help.joomla.org Joomla 1.0
help.joomla.org/proxy Chris No content.
Waiting for GSoC MediaWiki library to be completed
so help proxy component can be rewritten.
joomlacode.org no migration necessary (GForge)
ux.joomla.org already Joomla 2.5

 

Overview Joomla.org sites managed by OSM
Migration by Planned Date Realization Date
conference.joomla.org already Joomla 2.5
events.joomla.org already Joomla 2.5
opensourcematters.org Jacques August 2012
shop.joomla.org

 

We’d try to keep you informed about the progress, and will update this overview with status updates.

By the way, what’s the status of your tap at home?

(photo by Sidiney Carlos Niclote, Brazil)