Comments for GroupJive Joomla 1.5 native Update

Update Eventlist integration…

Anyone keen to develop this project (and take away the pledges :-), or know of anyone who might be?

Two years ago I made a donation in hope that some day the groupjive will be completed for Joomla 1.0.x. I believe, this is what every donator had in mind. Today, two years later, I thought about making another donation, but… if you are going to make it native for 1.5, why should I donate for?

What is going to happen with us, the donators who counted on Joomla 1.0.x? (that means the MOST of the donators, right?). We donated because this component had to do with the CMS we were (are) using.

So, if you make it native for 1.5, then it is as if you are not considering us at all!!! Would that be fair?

Many of us already using Joomla 1.0x and migrating already existing site to 1.5 takes tons of time. Developing GJ for 1.0x is more reasonable since most of GJ users exist on 1.0x not 1.5 since GJ project started before J1.5

It’s possible that, like CB, a new developer could make it compatible with both! Many are moving to 1.5 (including me), but some are slow to move from the tried and true.

Developers are better able to let us know what’s possible, but we need a developer first! So let’s pull together for that before worrying about the other stuff.

Looks like the project posted by Scubaguy on Joolancers.com has received a bid for $1600. So far, we are up to $1370, just $230 short.

Scubaguy: can you follow up with the bidder - I think they sent you a private message. Maybe they will start the project with the $1370 – I am sure the balance will follow even from those who have already pledged.

yep … now we’re at 1.600 US$.

That is good news that the CB gang might be wanting to do it. I think the quickest way would be for Beat and his crew to put a bid in here at micropledge – they’d win the bid for sure. How about that?

Ben, re “Anyone keen to develop this project (and take away the pledges :-), or know of anyone who might be? ” - I recommend Beat from JoomlaPolis.com (he’s the core developer for Community Builder). Community Builder 1.2 is Joomla 1.5.3 native! It would be great to see Joomla 1.5.3, Community Builder 1.2 and the next GroupJive all perfectly compatible and native to each other! I think Beat would be the best choice to take this up!!!

Here’s his profile on JoomlaPolis:

Beat

Hi rofar, thanks. I’m not a JoomlaPolis user, so I can’t actually view his profile – have you mentioned this project to him? There’s quite a decent-sized bounty on this now, so it’d be good to get a developer with some Joomla know-how on board.

Hi all,

I’m a Joomla freelance developer, I recently joined eventlist 1.5 project, and I am developer of Joomleague (joomleague.de) and my own component for 1.5, Tracks (http://tracks.jlv-solutions.com).

Anyway, I’ll look into this !

I took a look at the code.

There are a lot of thing, but it looks clean, at least the parts i looked at. I think I could do the port to 1.5 native for $1600. For the other parts (fireboard, eventlist, plugin system), it is very difficult to quote at the moment without a deep knowledge of the code. However, doing the port to 1.5 would give me that experience.

I didn’t use the quote feature yet, because It forces me to quote for at least the pledge amount, and there doesn’t seem to be a solution for a partial quote.

Hi julienV,

Good to hear you’re interested in developing this (or at least part of it).

As for quoting, I’d recommend just going ahead and quoting for the full project – approximate if you need to. With microPledge projects you can do progress releases along the way, and get partial payments as a result. So when you’ve finished what you can do, estimate you’re 60% done, and if pledgers are happy, you’ll get 60% of the pledge money. (If you estimate too high, it’s no problem, but the pledgers might only vote to give you the percentage they think you’ve done.)

From there, if you think it’d be better for another developer to finish the project, you can simply re-open the project for quotes.

Hope that helps. –Ben

Hello all!

I think the crew over at www.dioscouri.com will be taking on this project… it ‘jives’ well with some things we’re already developing …

:-)

Thanks!

Well,

I’m waiting for pledgers input to close the quoting period and start working on that.

Please decide if you prefer to wait for discouri extension, or if I should get going.

Hi JulienV, by the number of pledges coming in, looks like people are happy for you to go ahead :-) It’s been two weeks, so at any stage you can click “End quoting and become the developer” to get started. Have fun! -Ben

Same for me… i do only pledge when it will be a 1.0.xx component as well. Don’t let us down…..

Jasper

Not sure if you all know but the Community Builder team are integrating the GJ functions into the next version of CB. Does this remove the need for this now?