XOOPS: XOOPS is Gaining Popularity, speeds up development

Posted by: MambaOn 2010/2/1 17:50:00 7437 reads
XOOPS Projects is enjoying a strong increase in popularity, measured by number of new users, as well as new developers joining the XOOPS Team. According to Alexa.com, the XOOPS’ reach had an impressive gain in 2009 when looked over the last two years:

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XOOPS is back!

Thanks to the influx of new developers, XOOPS Project has been able to release updates to its CMS on a monthly basis since August 2008, and to start parallel development of new versions. While one team led by Trabis was focusing on the maintenance of 2.4.x series, another team from France and Switzerland worked on the XOOPS 2.5.x series, with main focus on redesigning the Admin with jQuery. At the same time, the work continues on revising architecture for the new XOOPS 3.0 version, led by Dr. Taiwen Jiang, the Project Leader.

As you've seen in the XOOPS 2008-2009 Annual Report, there have been a lot of exciting activities in the last two years, the community is uniting, growing, and becoming more vibrant and active - creating new themes, new modules, and new Core releases.

The XOOPS 2.5 Alpha has been released today, just one week after the XOOPS 2.4.4 Final release. Fast and furious!

With developments like this, 2010 will be a lot FUN!!!

Please join us in this journey! Please help us make XOOPS the best CMS it can be. And then some more

Just ask yourself: "What can I do to help XOOPS? How can I give back to this community?" And then just go ahead and DO IT!!!

Please help us by:

- testing, reporting bugs, and providing fixes for them
- making sure that your modules work with this new release
- writing documentation
- translating to your local language
- spreading the news about this new release to everybody via blogs, postings, twitters, press releases in your local languages, etc.

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