Many people have probably read that Joomla! stalwart Community Builder is being updated to run natively on Joomla 1.5. You can read the announcement here.
But if you have been reading the CB forum thread on the announcement, you might have even seen this post from Beat (CB Developer):
Regarding roadmap: following releases are currently planed for 2008, with work already advanced quite well for all of them:
CB 1.2
CB 1.3
CB 2.0
Exciting stuff to be sure. Here’s hoping that the CB team can make their tight schedule. I’m also hoping that a 2.0 CB would entail a major design overhaul. It would be great to see the CB Profile page become properly modular, with plugins having much more freedom.
From what I have read, to achieve real flexibility in an elegant design, users need to purchase additional software. I am a supporter of professional developers, and I can understand why some developers make commercial products for open source projects. However, to sell a product which customizes an open source extension for an open source CMS, seems to going against the ecosystem slightly.
