BSQ Sitestats NOT to Be Ported to Joomla 1.5
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008I’ve received several questions on the 4theweb forums, Open Source Community, and this blog about the status of porting BSQ Sitestats to Joomla 1.5.
I have no current plans to port BSQ Sitestats to Joomla 1.5 at this time. This is the result of several factors, the first being that I have not been involved in the Joomla community since late 2006, when I thought a 1.5 RC release was imminent.
The second factor is time. I have been given more privileges and responsibilities in my career, and I plan to follow and fulfill to the best of my abilities. Also, we are now finally in spring at the 45th parallel, and I will be biking at least 5 days a week until October (when I’m not working on my career).
A third factor is lack of help. Maintaining a popular extension is a very time consuming task. PHP applications have the misfortune of being M x N x O x P complex where M is the CMS version, N is the PHP version, O is the database version, and P is the extension version. System programming is much easier: you either have POSIX, Linux, or Win32. Doing all of these complexities requires several very educated users running some of the combinations of M X N x O x P. While a lot of extensions have this kind of help, I never have, making remotely debugging the simplest problem difficult.
If somebody wants to take over the port of BSQ Sitestats to Joomla 1.5, I’d be glad to help, but I cannot lead this effort. Thanks for all of the usage on Joomla 1.0.
May 6th, 2008 at 7:09 am
Sorry to hear this, but I appreciate your candor. I am in the process of transitioning my site to 1.5 and was wondering how to handle user tracking. I am using Google Analytics, and would be happy with that product but for the lack of one feature: tracking the pages that individual users look at on my site. Google summarizes this information, but BSQ presents it in a very clean fashion on a user by user basis.
Enjoy your biking this summer!
May 6th, 2008 at 7:12 am
Thank you for your kind words.
May 11th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
Brent,
I have used BS SQuared (and still do) since pretty much your early releases. I personally am not too concerned about 1.5, but wanted to say thank you for the hard work on 1.xx version.
Good success on your career and biking!
T
May 11th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
You’re welcome, Tom.