The JFusion development team is proud to announce that we just released JFusion 1.7 stable. This version runs under Joomla 1.5, 1.6, 1.7 and 2.5. Since the release of 1.6 the team has committed close to 200 bug fixes and updates. This version now officially supports Joomla 2.5.
Jfusions admin site has got a new look and the installer has been rewritten to allow seperate installation of our plugins. We have now just too many to install them all during installation or updating of JFusion.
JFusion is a complex project. It includes support for 17 integrations and many more are available outside our code base. We have now created more than 100.000 lines of code using 6 different languages. We needed 18 person-years for that representing a value of more than 1 million dollars.
All of that in our free time!
We have moved our support to a ticket system to keep better track of your requests for support. We got high marks for our support via this system. Our forum has become a community forum where people can help each other out. This way we can concentrate on the more difficult support questions. Kayako has supplied us with a free license for their helpdesk system Fusion, one of the best helpdesk systems available. It has been integrated with our main site using JFusion 1.7 of course so your are logged in to our helpdesk automatically when you log in to Joomla. We have also enabled the integration of our phpbb3 forum and our wiki (powered by docuwiki).
Integration support and new development
We get many requests to integrate software. If you have read up to here you now have a pretty good feeling on how busy we are in our spare time. You can always request support for a new integration but keep in mind that we have some simple rules:
The software has to be free open source if we are going to release a free open source support plugin for JFusion. If you need something else contact us for a quote. Note that development time can go up well over 40 hours depending on the complexity of the software to be supported.
Our priority #1 lies with our families, our education / paid work comes next.
Our priority #2 is to get to code as bug free as possible. We won't get it completely bug free. Nobody can.
New features and new plugins come after that
As this is all in our free time, we need to have fun doing this. Don't spoil that (you all know what I mean).
Documentation
Our documentation becomes a bit out-dated. Instead of updating all those configuration items we have decided to put them into the code. So when you need to configure a plugin, just hover over the label and you get the information that has been in our wiki before this release. To help you out we have structured the settings into comprehensible parts under seperate tabs
DONATIONS
Maybe you never thought of it, but this website costs money to run and to maintain. We use your donations for that.
Change/update list
Ah yes, the change report for this version
As always, have fun using JFusion. A day without a smile is a day lost.
The team