Comments on: More about Joomla 1.0 end-of-life

By: Nick Kotarski

Nick Kotarski — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:46:00 +0000

Well 1.0 has an end of life date now. July rather than March as you had suggested.

Nick

By: Mathias Verraes

Mathias Verraes — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:53:00 +0000

Hehe, looks like we triggered some internal debate :-)

By: Sander

Sander — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 07:17:00 +0000

The official ‘end of life’ date is now set to July 22, 2009. More info: http://community.joomla.org/contributor-blogs/64-developer-team-blog/509-an-old-friend-comes-of-age.html

By: dpk

dpk — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:17:00 +0000

The reality is that tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of sites are still running Mambo 4.5.x and numerous other outdated CMSes. There will be millions of Joomla 1.0 sites in existence for many years to come. They will be upgraded or abandoned when they are hacked.

Many websites were not built by the people who operate them, and the people who operate them lack the knowledge or the funds to execute an upgrade. This problem is exacerbated by compatibility gaps and the lack of a good migration system between versions, as with Joomla 1.0-1.5 and Drupal 5-6.

Just think of the time and costs for a major migration project involving sites with thousands of articles and many custom plugins.

By: Brian Teeman

Brian Teeman — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:28:00 +0000

Of course being an open source product there is nothing to say that a grop of experienced joomla developers dont take it upon themselves to offer security updates even after the joomla project ceases to support version 1.0