Joomla! 1.6 ACL Manager
Friday, 10 September 2010About a month ago we held a Joomla! 1.6 Bootcamp in the Netherlands with various interesting topics - but the most important subject seemed to be 1.6 ACLs. Our team-member Sander Potjer prepared his talk about ACLs by creating a spreadsheet with ACL rules. One thing led to another, and now we are proud to announce a full-fledged Joomla! 1.6 ACL Manager tool is well underway.
The Dutch
As part of the official Dutch Joomla! community (www.joomlacommunity.eu), Sander is a well known person in the Netherlands. He is one of the maintainers and initiative-takers of the joomlacommunity.eu site, involved also with the official Joomla!Days in the Netherlands (and JAndBeyond 2011 ???) and since a couple of months also part of our regular Yireo-team.
During our (Dutch-only) Joomla! 1.6 Bootcamp, he had the chance to explain how Joomla! 1.6 introduces a new permissions system (ACLs) and how to deal with this in practical way. ACLs are difficult to comprehend, and only recently efforts were made to integrate a better ACL overview in the core. Still, the management of ACL rules require some kind of advanced ACL tool - and this is exactly what Sander is working on.
When can we see it?
As with Joomla! 1.6 itself, the always evident question is: When can we see the Joomla! 1.6 ACL Manager? The always evident answer of Sander was of course: When it's done. But when squeezing Sander for a better answer, he indicated that it wouldn't be smart to release anything until a RC-candidate of the 1.6 core was released to the public. As Sanders ACL tool is well underway, a release could be expected somewhere after Joomla! 1.6 RC1. We can't wait.
Exciting times for exciting software.