Because this is our first cycle of this type, we will be figuring some stuff out as we go along. We have the general outline of the process, as will be explained here, but there will no doubt be things that we need to adjust or change.

A second wrinkle is that, on or about 30 April 2011, we will split off the Joomla Platform (the libraries folder more or less) as a separate project. This will change the way in which we fix bugs and add features that affect the platform. Again, this is all new, so again we will be learning as we go along.

After the last Joomla updates, I feel comfortable if RT does what Akeeba Tools is doing, and NOT pushing forward.

I really like the J1.6, but it is being treated by the developers as an Alpha release. There is a very good reason why extension developers do not work on upgrades until RC status... too many changes.

The Joomla team doesn't seem to understand that RC and especially Release and Stable should never have any major code changes.

And they don't even have a migration tool.

Andy, at first I was cursing RT and Gantry, thinking that all of that functionality is now a burden moving forward. But after trying to do a simple migration from 1.5 to 1.6, with stock templates, I am reassured that the issues are coming from the unorganized Joomla Team.

Thank you for keeping things moving as best you can.