Joomladay Mallorca April 2010

1. DOCman
JOOMLA DAY MALLORCA 2010
Mathias Verraes
DOCman Lead Developer
Nooku Framework Lead Developer
Twitter:
@MathiasVerraes
@Nooku
@Joomlatools
http://joomladocman.org
http://nooku.org/framework

2. Our team is growing
• Johan Janssens, Joomla Co-Founder, 1.5 Lead Architect
• Mathias Verraes, DOCman lead developer
• Pete Russell, Joomla Co-Founder
• Shayne Bartlett, Joomla Co-Founder
• Tom Janssens, brother of a Joomla Co-founder
• David Deutsch, AEC Subscription management
• Gergõ Erdõsi, Joomla 1.6 developer
• Krisstoffer Yelland, DOCman Support Engineer

3. Every time you install
software, you sign a contract

4. Proprietary software
• Only allowed to install on 1 computer
• Not allowed to change the code
• Don’t do this, don’t do that...
Very restrictive!

5. Free Software
is about Freedom

6. Free Software
• The freedom to use the software for any purpose
• The freedom to change the software to suit your needs
• The freedom to share the software with your friends and
neighbors
• The freedom to share the changes you make
General Public License

7. The idea of Free Software has
a major influence on society

8. Without Free Software
the internet would be a
boring, expensive place

9. Without Free Software,
there would be no Joomla

10. Miro open sourced
Mambo in 2001

11. In 2005, Joomla forked
from Mambo

12. Two years ago, the
Joomla project decided
that all extensions should
be GPL
• Philosophical reasons
• Legal reasons

13. Many developers are
worried their extension
will be forked

14. Pidgin vs Funpidgin

15. The best protection
against forks is a healthy
project that inspires trust

16. DOCman was forked :-(
... but it didn’t affect DOCman

17. How DOCman inspires trust:
• Stability
• Good release cycle
• Great support
• Free Software philosophy

18. What is DOCman?
• Manage documents
• Publish downloads
• Manage permissions
First published in 2003, one of the
oldest Joomla extensions

19. Features
• GPL • Custom fields
• Nested categories • Local or remote
storage
• Group ACL
• Logs & statistics
• Themes
• Search
• Plugin support
• Anti-leech
• MVC
• ...
• DOClink

20. DOCman 1.5
• Stability
• Security
• Performance

21. Stability
Lots of sites depend on DOCman.
We don’t take risks with your data.
• Make upgrades as painless as possible
• No database changes
• No behaviour changes

22. Security
• Big complex projects have a higher risk factor
• Software that manages sensitive data is more attractive
to hackers
• Yet not a single vulnerability was discovered in DOCman
in the past two years

23. Performance DOCman 1.4
DOCman 1.5
Page render in milliseconds Memory usage in Mb
420 12
415
376 10 10,45
315
8 8,5
210 6
4
105
2
0 0
10% gain 20% gain

31. What are the challenges for
DOCman 1.6?

32. 150 Feature requests for DOCman
Most of them are very specific to one single use case
http://ideas.joomlatools.eu/pages/docman

33. The real problem is extensibility

34. DOCMAN FUTURE ...
Themes Amazon S3 Indexing
Tagging Box.net Google Docs
Versioning Workflows Notifications
ACL WebDAV ...
(either official or 3PD plugins)
DOCman
Core Document Management

35. What should you remember?
• Free Software is about Freedom
• For DOCman 1.5, keeping your documents secure is our
primary concern
• DOCman 1.6 is about increased flexibility (release date:
unknown)

36. Thank you
QUESTIONS?
Twitter:
@MathiasVerraes
@Nooku
@Joomlatools
http://joomladocman.org
http://nooku.org/framework