A Reason to Update?
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The other day a friend of mine familiar with Joomla dropped the update bomb on me. "So, you know they're up to 1.5.x and 1.6 will be out soon." Yeah, I know. I didn't want to admit to him that I'm still powering up the site on circa 2007 Joomla, specifically – "Joomla! 1.0.13 Stable [ Sunglow ] 21 July 2007 16:00 UTC."
I don't know how the program gets a name such as Sunglow, or why there's an exclamation after Joomla. I guess the original developers were truly excited about it. I wonder if they still are after 33 or so releases since 2007 (post-Mambo) (http://guidecms.com/all-cms/j/joomla/news). Why not give it names such as Joomla! 1.0.13 Stable [ DAMN it's GOOD ] or Joomla! 1.0.13 [ WE FIXED IT ]?
Other names for update releases include: Sunset, Sundial, Sunburst, Sunshade, Sundown, Sunbow, Sunfire… And with the release of 1.5, the naming convention changed to Swahili names such as Khepri (an Egyptian God), Mapya, Endeleo, Takriban and Karibu – various ways of saying [ THE PROGRAM IS STILL COOKING ]
(http://docs.joomla.org/Joomla!_Codenames).
