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Re: Nooku 0.6 : pushing Joomla to its limits

Mathias Verraes — Tue, 12 May 2009 18:25:22 -0000

You might want to check out http://www.nooku.org/en/buz... , that's where we post the Nooku news. We haven't been blogging as much as we'd like to, but rest assured we are still improving Nooku, and it's being used on more sites built by more partners every month. We are getting closer to releasing some Nooku technology publicly.

Re: Nooku 0.6 : pushing Joomla to its limits

Dieter — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:09:45 -0000

By this time JoomFish 2.0 stable has been released. I wonder if i should keep waiting for Nooku to surface...

Re: Nooku 0.6 : pushing Joomla to its limits

Dieter — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 05:51:07 -0000

It's not really the classic way of open source because nobody outside the inner circle has seen the code at this point.

Anyway, I am very curious about what the result will be and I hope the long anticipation of Nooku will not be an anticlimax (because of another comparable component being released before Nooku, or because of too great expectations).

Re: Nooku 0.6 : pushing Joomla to its limits

Mathias Verraes — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 06:06:17 -0000

Absolutely! The GPL is about the freedom to use the software as you wish, see the source code and make modificiations. Compare that to the restrictive end user license agreements on software like Vista or OSX, and you'll see why the difference is so important. The GPL does in no way imply that the software should be 'free as in a beer' or 'available to everybody'. Please see http://www.gnu.org/licenses....

Many people believe that it is impossible to have a viable GPL based business model. That's why there are many closed proprietary extensions on the JED. With Nooku, we are hoping to prove that is perfectly possible to make living of high quality open source Joomla extensions.

Figuring out how to do that has been part of the process. You can develop it for a year, and release a 1.0 that has not been used in the real world. On the other hand, releasing early to thousands of users, would mean we have to spend all our time in supporting the extension and no time would be left for development.

So releasing Nooku to a limited group of people in the beginning and slowly building from there, gives us the best of both worlds: the income allows us to have people working on it almost full time, and we get feeedback from professional users without having to support thousands of them right away.

So yes, Nooku is open source GPL, and it is Free Software (as in 'freedom') according to the Free Software Foundation. Developing good software takes time, and you can either support it by becoming a Nooku Partner, or wait a little longer for the public release.

Re: Nooku 0.6 : pushing Joomla to its limits

Dieter — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 05:21:52 -0000

'ya call that open source?

Re: Nooku 0.6 : pushing Joomla to its limits

Johan Janssens — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 16:07:39 -0000

No download link, nor a usability flaw. As our site says : Nooku will be released under the GPL but it won't be available immediately to the general public. Our partners get first bite while we're still perfecting our baby! If you're serious about supporting open source code, you might like to consider becoming a partner, more info : http://nooku.org/en/partner...

Re: Nooku 0.6 : pushing Joomla to its limits

M4rc0 — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 15:50:43 -0000

Hmm. Ok.

So where is the download link?

What an irritating usability flaw..

Re: Nooku 0.6 : pushing Joomla to its limits

Mathias Verraes — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 07:46:32 -0000

That shouldn't be a problem. And I'm sure that, if someone does find an issue, we'll be able to fix it :-)

Re: Nooku 0.6 : pushing Joomla to its limits

Guest — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 07:32:16 -0000

isnt a problem, is a question - how will nooku work with multiple menu alias items all pointing back and forth

Re: Nooku 0.6 : pushing Joomla to its limits

Mathias Verraes — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 06:00:11 -0000

I'm not following, what exactly is the problem?

Re: Nooku 0.6 : pushing Joomla to its limits

Guest — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 05:54:36 -0000

As we know my dam track record when it comes to aliases, il query it here and leave it upto moderation if it gets published or answered pvt... anyway!!

As Joomla! supports aliases to other menu items and i generally create my entire SEO from a dummy menu then alias back to that menu (it makes clean urls honest)

how would that play out, as in effect its duplication for the sake of ease, i suppose the question im asking is more related to your last post on keeping things simple... does Nooku have the brains to work this out for me... or do i need to kick it to death to go that road :P

Re: Nooku 0.6 : pushing Joomla to its limits

Mathias Verraes — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 05:44:09 -0000

The alias validator on it's own won't do much for you, it's the metadata and the SEF urls that will make the difference, eg /15-my-article is now simply /my-article.
Some of our Nooku partners already told us they are installing Nooku on monolingual sites, just to be able to use some of the content mgmt & SEO features. So there's no point in releasing these features separately, it's the combination of all of them that makes Nooku so interesting.
that being said, we are considering to release the RAD framework we built for Nooku. It is already being used by rmdstudio to build a social engine for joomla.

Re: Nooku 0.6 : pushing Joomla to its limits

Brian Teeman — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 04:39:35 -0000

do you plan on making this alias checker etc available outside of nooku. It would be very useful