Question [Merged topic] General questions about Kunena 1.6 - please do not ask about release dates

I have looked throught the forums, searched for K1.6, went to the SVN as I saw in the forum, looked on the Blog....And I must be completely blind, but I dont see anywhere that has simple, direct information about 1.6. I have asked other questions about 1.6 that have gone unanswered. So I am proposing that perhaps you consider a board specifically for 1.6 with maybe a sticky showing release dates, features, etc.

My first question is related to JomSocial Group Integration and how it wil work. I have been paying for specific development and would rather commit thise funds to Kunena development, if I knew that your solution would meet my needs. Thus the reason I suggest, better communication on 1.6.

I would like groups to be able to start forums within categories that are set "Forum Enabled" in the backend. And moderators could be assigned from the groups.

fair go, they have had a few hectic months punching out alot of work on the K1.5 series. As you will see by the SVN they are working constantly on the upcoming K1.6, but as they do it as a hobby they dont know exactly the amount of spare time they get to work on it and so they dont know and thus cant tell exact dates of release. The communication is pretty good, we know via twitter that K1.5.5 is near release and via SVN we know work is underway on K1.6.

the core of K1.6 is almost ready

We don't want to speak too much about 1.6 too early. The initial idea was to publish 1.6 with j1.6 RC... but seems we may be ready before that

On the other hand, K1.6 is major revamp of Kunena itself, basically, we're rewritten all code inherited from joomlaboard and fireboard completely, old code was a mess, and fixing one thing broke 10... we cannot keep working in Kunena in these conditions, upcoming J1.6 seems a good moment to do so.

So K1.6 is all about rewriting everything with new classes according to J1.6, but that works also with J1.5...

Although an important point for us are integrations, at this stage, we don't care First we have to recreate what we have but well done, and I doubt first releases of K1.6 may have many new additons, untruth, they will have, but you will not see them...

Also, integration must be a 2 teams work... you can see what you ask is already working with groupjive, basically, because we had a great communication with CB and GJ team, constant skype chats while building the integration on what/we needed and how to get it... I'm sorry to say the same is not applicable to azrul team. All the work has been done in our side, with some questions answered from them... you can see azrul interest in Kunena seeing there's still no core Kunena plugin, but a fireboard one...

That said, you can see in K1.6 to-dos , JS is there, but for it, and for rest of 3rd party support, the API must be done

Thanks for the update - we appreciate it!

We just get a little eager when we read that it is 48hrs from release on Twitter..

That is K1.5.6, not K1.6