Welcome

Welcome to the J! User project.

The J!User project is a community initiative to provide support, bug fixes and compatibility updates for Joomla abandonware. Many users have mature sites that rely on abandoned or outdated components. These components are at risk of breaking or becoming vulnerable when compatibility with current Joomla, PHP, SQL or other libraries comes to an end. Many of these components are either niche products or have been so heavily modified that there is no easy pathway for migration to an alternate product. If one actually exists.

The J!User project is a coming-together of the Joomla community to provide help to those of us reliant on abandonware products to be able to continue to use them into the foreseeable future. 

 

Project Goals

This project is a community run and supported endeavour. Our goal is to help provide those of us who have websites that rely on GPL licensed abandonware products to be able to continue to run our websites into the foreseeable future by providing bug fix and compatibility updates. 

The initial aim is to fix compatibility issues with existing products and then address outstanding bug reports. Long term it is hoped that the products may evolve with new features crowd-sourced by the J!User community

This project is a not-for-profit endeavour. It does not aim to infringe on anyones commercial interests or rights. 

 

Contributing

Contributing to the J! User project is easy. You do not need to be a programmer or tech-savant.

Discovering and raising issues, testing, helping out with forum support, documentation and WIKI contributions are all different and valuable ways that you can help the project. As a community we stand together and can provide help to each other. We can all draw on our different skills. Sharing those skills within the community to help others is what this project is all about. Hopefully together we stand strong and can carry this project long into the future.

If you are a developer, or even if you are not but have had-a-crack at fixing something and have a solution, workaround, fix or update. Please share it with the community. 

There will always be more work than we have developers to carry out that work, so we are completely reliant on those who donate their time. For this we thank you, as without that generosity, this project would not exist.

 

Getting Support

If you rely on a Joomla component, module or plugin that has become abandonware and would like to get help maintaining or updating it, please create a post in the discussion forum and reach out to the community