Joomla 1.6 has been in the making for the last 2.5 years and there are several reasons for that:

• Joomla 1.5 was basically finished only after the stable release.
• The developers involved in the 1.5 development process took a deserverd vacation from development after its release and that basically stopped all development on 1.6
• The features planned for 1.6 (as flexible as that feature plan was) didn’t involve people actually commiting to creating those features.

Looking at the current development, it seems as if especially the vacation part of the people in charge will happen again. So if we really want to stick to the 6 months release cycle and actually provide people with some improvement in 1.7 over 1.6, we should prepare for that new release cycle now and both start developing for it and prepare the management.

This group wants to collect features, plans, resources and actual code for this next release and maybe even for 1.8, so that we can put some punch into Joomla again and bring this CMS again to the bleeding edge of web development. There are thousands of great ideas out there that could make Joomla better, faster and more flexible, but they haven’t been heard. Lets get started and bring those into this great project!

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