A fork promising a slimmer, more feature-rich Joomla. Registered on SourceForge in April 2006 by a developer named 'jacksonpeebles,' it last showed signs of life in 2014. Zero downloads per week tells you everything you need to know.
A fork promising a slimmer, more feature-rich Joomla. Registered on SourceForge in April 2006 by a developer named 'jacksonpeebles,' it last showed signs of life in 2014. Zero downloads per week tells you everything you need to know.
Jeebles CMS appeared on SourceForge in April 2006, billing itself as a content management system that combined "a low file size with lots of features" -- essentially promising to be Joomla but leaner and meaner. The developer, known as jacksonpeebles, built it using PHP and JavaScript with a SQL backend.
The project was dual-licensed under GPLv2 and LGPLv2, targeting developers, end users, and system administrators. The latest available download was an "enterprise.zip" file weighing in at 7.6 MB. The project's last update was in July 2014, and it currently records zero weekly downloads.
Jeebles is a textbook example of the "I can do this better" fork that appears regularly in open-source ecosystems. Without a clear differentiator, a compelling community story, or enough developers to sustain momentum, it joined the vast graveyard of abandoned SourceForge projects.
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Last update recorded on SourceForge
Essentially zero. Jeebles is the CMS equivalent of a message in a bottle that nobody ever found.