Comments on: Will Joomla 1.5 Attract Joomla 1.0 Users To Migrate? (Joomla 1.5 May Fail)

By: Tech Admin

Tech Admin — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 06:13:40 +0000

@Riz
Thank you for your comment and the statistical approach. Surely 1.5 will overtake 1.0 someday when it turns out to be the only version supported. In software cycle, there is “burst time” where the distribution reaches its peak. However, the future distribution is stochastic process (unless somehow it’s maintained to be more predictable).

I’ve just visited joomla website and noticed 1.5.2 is already shipped. It’s nice to know this information, because fast updates may imply the software is widely used (or widely accepted by users) and the team are dedicating their effort to the release.

Anyway, thanks for dropping by.

By: Riz

Riz — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 12:28:49 +0000

A good article with good points, indeed!
But alil unfair with respect to the comparison you did.. I mean comparing two versions with completely two different sample data was not equitable (do correct me if Im wrong).. 1.0 was out since 15th Sep’2005 & 1.5 was out (as you have correctly mentioned) 12th Oct’06.. As of 23 Dec’07 (your post date), if we look at the download stats you have provided, the total # of downloads for 1.0.13 are 762318 & 19863 for 1.5 RC4.. You already know that 1.0.13 was released on 21 Jul’07.. so in other words 1.0.13 was 148 days old, and 1.5 was 4 days old.. now the comparison, total # of downloads per day for each becomes approx. 5151 and 4966 respectively.. Which shows there was not much of a difference in that.. Anyways, there is no doubt that 1.0 is still far stable than 1.5 but 1.5 will overtake 1.0 as everyday highrise in oil prices are overtaking our bank account (lolz) and thus compelling all the joomla lovers to support it even more..
But I like the way you merged into Joomla from Vista.. that was something else.. lolz !!

By: Tech Admin

Tech Admin — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:47:32 +0000

@Amy
it’s great to hear the news. hope it will be also followed by tremendous enthusiasm from 3rd party developers

@Abdellatif
it’s stable to its standard. there are milestones in software development and i think, for core Joomla 1.5 dev team, the released version is stable enough. you can report the problem about your joomla 1.5 installation in joomla forum.

By: abdellatif

abdellatif — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 01:37:38 +0000

i tested joomla 1.5 it’s not stable 100%

By: Amy Stephen

Amy Stephen — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 07:16:45 +0000

65,000 downloads in only a few days. That’s *super* freaky! Don’t you think? Man. That’s interest.

By: Tech Admin

Tech Admin — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 12:53:22 +0000

@Mathias, Johan
Thanks for dropping by and posting links for the counter arguments. As the first stable release of Joomla 1.5 is announced to public, we’ll see how all the forecasts will transform into the factual condition or instead only be the part of the history.

By: Johan Janssens

Johan Janssens — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 04:20:01 +0000

I did a bit of research myself and came to a very different conclusion than yours. Instead of the 2.5% you talk about my figures are showing between 30-40% of total downloads are taken up by Joomla! 1.5 at the moment and this figure is increasing with about 5% monthly. Based on that data I’m predicting that Joomla! 1.5 will superseed 1.0 in March 2008.

More info : http://blog.joomlatools.org/2008/01/joomla-will-reach-turning-point-in.html