Although DOCman has been around for six years (yes, longer than Joomla), it's only since March 2007 that we are keeping track of downloads. The number is impressive nonetheless: We're nearing 1.5 million downloads! That makes DOCman one of the most popular extensions on the forge. Soon you'll be able to get your hands on the stable release.
So it is with great pride that we can announce that DOCman 1.5 RC1 is released to our tester's group. The new DOCman is fully compatible with Joomla 1.5 in native mode. Our main focus for this Release Candidate -- apart from the usual care that goes into making sure your data is secure -- was the languages. There are about 30 languages available for DOCman, and a lot of effort went into cleaning them up and converting them to UTF-8. For the non-techies: getting them to display correctly, no matter what character set or language you use.
Don't compete, collaborate!
Even with all the combined knowledge of the whole Joomlatools team, we still only speak about 5 languages, so we'll need your help testing the translations. If you have translated DOCman before, or you are an avid DOCman user, you can join in. Send us an email, with some info about your native language, and how experienced you are with DOCman and software testing in general. Update: we are not accepting new testers at the moment, only translators.
We believe DOCman is still the most reliable and secure document solution for Joomla. All the help we've been getting from community members proves that in open source, collaboration will beat blind competition any day.
Finally, I'd like to take this opportunity to thank one such contributor. Harri (aka Tassu on the forum) has spend a lot of his time helping people as a moderator, on the DOCman forum as well as on various forums for Joomla and extensions. Due to professional circumstances, Harri is taking it a notch down, but he will still be around in the Joomlasphere.
