Any news ?

No, I am afraid at this point, I do not have anything to share.

Hey Guys,

I am very disappointed with the lack of communication and the attitude that K2 has taken with V3.

Its been over 6 months now since you guys first announced a release date, and in the last 3 months since the last date you announced at xmas time, there has been no communication at all, other than to say you will let us know when its ready.

Let me ask you, what would you do if you were working with a company who treated you the same way? What would you think about this company who promised a release date 6 months ago, then kept changing the date, then decided to not communicate at all...even after so so so many K2 community members kindly asked for some communication?

Honestly, what would you think about this if it was done to you?

I myself, as well as many K2 community members have been asking "What is actually holding up the release of V3"? To which we have never received a response. Please understand that you do have a responsibility to the large user base you have, even though K2 is free at the moment.

P.S. I run a Joomla site with k2 2.6.9 and you guys have stated 100's of times that K2 3.0 can be easily installed ontop. Well let me tell you I downloaded the latest k2 v3 release from GitHub 2 weeks ago, and installed it ontop of my site in a dev environment, and it destroyed my K2 installation...K2 wouldnt display properly. Since you guys have stated you are 'close' to finishing many times over the last 6 months, we 'should' be able to assume k2 v3 is very close to stable, but honestly this just makes me thing we are still 6 months away from a stable release.

Guys, if you keep up with the no communication, i wouldnt be suprized if the template clubs started dropping K2 from their new Templates...Hell, JoomlArt stopped added k2 to new templates some time ago, I notified you guys about this, and then within a week of you confirming this, you made that blog post on your site announcing V3 and telling us how great it will be. A few months later JoomlArt started including K2 again...but guess what...JoomlArt developed their own CCK within Joomla Articles...I would not be suprized if this has a direct correlation to the missed released dates and no communication from you guys.

What I dont understand is why its so hard to communicate to us? You guys have clearly been in software development for many many years, and thus should be on top of software project management...

Anyway, by no means am I being rude, nothing that has been said is incorrect, its all true....we just want to know whats going on, and I believe we have all waited long enough to get some feedback.

I don't mind waiting :D :D

A few days ago, NoNumber has issued a version of Advanced module Manager Pro that supports K2 V3.
Lets hope that they have some internal info that V3 development is coming to the final stage.

Kannan Naidu Venugopal wrote: I don't mind waiting :D :D

You do not care? How can anyone not worry about something so important? I am sorry for you, because your site should be very mediocre!

its not a matter of willingness to wait or not.
Its got to do with features.
K2 V3 according to the published specifications will be so much more advanced than the current version.
For example, now that K2 does not have item associations in multilanguage sites, its actually almost out of the question to use it in multilanguage sites with content that is not assigned to menus.

My concern is that the beta version was actually published 10 months ago, and since then i don't see a lot of evolution towards the final version and i am very very much concerned that the projects could be dropped. Not because the joomlaworks team is not an excellent team, but because when you have such a long development curve, the interest of the participating persons is dropping dramatically.
Lets all hope that K2 V3 will be a bright exception...

Unbelievable.....

I'm really sad to say this, but I just took a decision - I'm done with K2. Yeah, I'm very well aware that you don't care... but you will start to care when it is too late.

K2 was a top notch extension but know there are other CCKs to choose from which do care about their users and are able to communicate properly.

Goodbye K2, probably it's too early to say it but... RIP

(do not modify or delete my comment. it shows my feelings and is not insulting in any way. regarding the "RIP" - time will show if I'm right or wrong, you should not remove it. thanks)

Any news?
I don't understand why you keep us in the dark!
Can you tell us at what point is the development of k2 v3?
Is k2 a dead project?

Please tell us something!!

I'm waiting any news too.

Unfortunately still no ETA.
Once we have anything to share we will do so. K2 v3 is still at this moment under private dev.

Well, i must say that my concern is IF and not WHEN we will have V3.
Imagine that the first ETA published by Joomlaworks was October 2014 if i recall well.
I believe that IF the new V3 will be released, it will be close to the end of 2015.
I have no infos for that, i just state what i believe it will be the case.

We WILL publish V3 :)
That we can say for sure.

The real question is WHEN?
Many of us are developers and we use k2 for our projects!
How can I build a project with k2 if I do not have a secure update timeline?

@ K2 Team/Joomlaworks

just a thought, a short blog post at getk2.org/blog might be a good thing, firm dates dont have to be mentioned but people who havent found this forum thread might find it assuring to know that k2 is still in 'your thoughts' and active.

thanks

shoulders

@shoulders That sounds like a good idea. We will consider it.
@errevizeta You can start building it with 2.6.x and update when v3 is released.

Guys, if we go to the GitHub page for K2 v3, we see the following (as of the date and time of this post):

a month
2 months
2 months
4 months
3 months
a year
10 months
4 months
4 months

How can you honestly tell us that this is under 'active' development and its a priority given this factual information? How can a project thats apparently 'close' to being finished that only had a few things left to do, be like this?

It makes no sense.

Just come clean and admit you need help, or at least tell us whats going on.

I know I have dropped K2 from all my projects (k2 was a part of EVERY project I worked on, but if K2 can't support us and treat us with a little respect, I am not going to support K2).

It was nice while it lasted....

What i can say for certain is that either K2 V3 is not Joomlawork's priority or that the company has severe issues.
In any case i hope they will have the resources to finalize V3 development.

@John Dunstan they say it's in private dev. I agree with the rest you say.

@Florian, @Yannis It is still on private dev.
It is still in our priorities and I can reassure you we are not suffering from any issues.