XOOPS Forks Re-Unite with Their "Mothership" New Orleans LA
The XOOPS Project, one of world’s leading Open Source CMS (Content Management System), is experiencing something that probably none of the Open Source CMS projects have ever experienced: reunification with its forks. It's typical in the Open Source environment that developers work on a project, but then have different ideas, and leave to create a fork.
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| Written by XOOPS | | Tuesday, 31 March 2009 07:01 | The XOOPS Project, one of world’s leading Open Source CMS (Content Management System), is experiencing something that probably none of the Open Source CMS projects have ever experienced: reunification with its forks. March 25, 2009
The XOOPS Project, one of world’s leading Open Source CMS (Content Management System), is experiencing something that probably none of the Open Source CMS projects have ever experienced: reunification with its forks.
It's typical in the Open Source environment that developers work on a project, but then have different ideas, and leave to create a fork. Most of the time they never come back.
So it's a sign of a visionary leadership of the current XOOPS team that they have reached out and were able to attract back three of its recent and most innovative forks:
• Simple-XOOPS under leadership of Dirk Herrmann from Germany (www.simple-xoops.de),
• EXM System under leadership of Eduardo Cortes from Mexico (www.exmsystem.org), and
• Zarilia under leadership of John Neill from UK.
It is also a clear vote of confidence from the forks' developers for the current leadership team of XOOPS and their direction.
All of these forks are very innovative and will bring wealth of features back to XOOPS that will benefit XOOPS users for years to come, and will enhance the upcoming XOOPS 3.0 release. It also show XOOPS' increased effort to bring together and unite XOOPS developers from around the world.
Simple-XOOPS will bring some very exciting extensions to XOOPS, incl.:
• Multi-Site Hack (multiple domain / subdomain with one installation)
• Multi-Language Hack (multiple languages with one installation)
• URL rewriting hack, SEO optimization
• An integrated updater for the core and modules
• An installer for automatic installation of modules
• Automatic check for Version Update of core and modules
and Dirk Hermann has joined the XOOPS Core Team to become the Lead Maintainer for XOOPS 2.3, and then the Lead Developer for XOOPS 2.4
EXM System will bring a wealth of Usability improvements, and Eduardo Cortes will be joining the Core Development Team to lead the XOOPS Usability efforts focusing on:
1. The User Experience: working on more uniformity in the integration of all modules.
2. The Developer Experience: working on more useful and easier tools for developers.
3. The Designer Experience: working on providing designers with better elements and more power to adapt and use these in their designs.
"I'm looking forward to be part of XOOPS. EXM System has been developed based on XOOPS, and now that we've shown what can be don... | |
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