Archived:Joomla! 1.6 Development Status

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Task	Blocker	Status	Contact person	Description
Implement JForm library	Alpha	100%	Rob Schley, Andrew Eddie	This library allows to create forms from XML definition files. See the introduction at http://tinyurl.com/psj6c6
Implement new event triggers	Alpha	60%		onBeforeRender, triggers in JForm, onContentDisplay etc.
Implement new controller dispatcher	Alpha	100%		See the discussion at http://tinyurl.com/qlh5bg where Louis explained how this works in 1.6. See related article in wiki here: Xml-rpc changes in Joomla! 1.6.
Upgrade to Mootools 1.2	Alpha	100%	Louis Landry, Ercan Özkaya
Javascript translation	Alpha	100%		This is implemented and finished. Take a look at JOpenID Javascript class and mod_login for details
New extension updater work	Alpha	100%	Samuel Moffatt	New extension updater is implemented, but not finished yet.
Conversion of INI to JSON	Alpha	100%		We now use JSON format for storing parameters in the database. This is completed for core components.
Nested categories	Alpha	90%	Hannes Papenberg
Access control list (ACL)	Alpha	80%	Hannes Papenberg, Louis Landry
User management system	Alpha	75%		The new com_members needs to be proof checked.
Documenting the triggers, finishing them		10%	Louis Landry, Rob Schley, Andrew Eddie	The triggers for JForm need to be implemented in the respective extension, which has not happened yet. We need a plan for this one.
MVCing backend components		90%		Most of the back-end components have MVC file structure, but they are not fully MVC yet
Parameters for templates in the database		100%	Hannes Papenberg	Especially the UI will take a lot of work, we might have to change the database for this one.
Add template parameter set to menu item creation		10%	Hannes Papenberg
Refactoring parameters		80%		A review of the current parameters and implementing new ones for the new category system.
Comments system		80%	Louis Landry, Andrew Eddie, Rob Schley	It will be donated by JXtended and will be added to trunk somewhere in the beta phase.
Hooks for external authentication systems		0%		Need to be implemented in JUser and in the code where Usergroups are managed. Maybe we need a JUsergroupclass
Database driven install log		0%	Samuel Moffatt
Convert all layouts to semantic and XHTML strict		0%	Ron Severdia	There are some efforts going on for this. See the topic at http://tinyurl.com/qrb39k
Timezones, JDate and Datetime (gregorian, julian, shamsi, hijri, jewish, buddhist, ethiopian, chinese and french calendar)		0%	Hannes Papenberg
Refactoring all components to use JForm		80%
Localising invalid token message		100%		die('Invalid Token') will be replaced by jexit(JText::_('JInvalid_Token'))
Ability to select multiple categories for some views		0%
New sample content		80%	Elin Waring
Reformat translation files to adhere to proper INI specs		75%	Ole Ottosen, JM Simonet	In 1.6 we will use PHP's own INI parser and will namespace strings. For example "Weblinks_Category_Fieldname" or "Config_Application_Name"
Migration script from 1.5 to 1.6		0%	oc666	Migration script from 1.5 to 1.6
Add module assignment to menu items creation		100%
Ability to load additional layouts with a template		0%	Hannes Papenberg
Language switcher frontend		0%	Christophe Demko