By Christiane Maier-Stadtherr on 2026-02-08 18:01 in Production

Duration:  52 mins

Attendees
Sigrid Gramlinger, Benjamin Trenkle, Christiane Maier-Stadtherr, David Jardin, Herman Peeren, Gary Barclay, Martin Kopp, Olivier Buisard, Philip Walton, Richard Fath, Stefan Wendhausen, Viviana Menzel

Production Department Coordinator (Sigrid Gramlinger)

Teams define their goals for the year

Accessibility and Usability Team (Christiane Maier-Stadtherr, Viviana Menzel)

Goals:

  1. Reduce the number of a11y issues (37 open issues as per today)
  2. Find new team leaders

 

Automated Testing Team (Allon Moritz)

Goals

    1. Increase system test coverage
    2. onboard new team members

 

CMS Maintenance Team (Benjamin Trenkle)

Goals:

  1. Faster PR decision time
  2. Usage of GitHub features
  3. More automation in GitHub maintenance

 

CMS Release Team (Stefan Wendhausen)

Goals:

  1. Solution for automatic testing (e.g. new RC) on existing websites
  2. Find an Assistant team lead
  3. Better RM onboarding and a nice toolset to work with

Documentation Team (Herman Peeren)

Key Goals 2026:

  1. Translations of the User Guide. 
  2. Getting a complete series of tutorials for the User Guide about content management, site building and site maintenance.
  3. Site optimalisation.

Enhancement Development Team (Olivier Buisard)

PBF about 100 listed participants

GSoC projects https://community.joomla.org/gsoc/projects-2026.htm

Key goals:

  1. organize and prioritize the projects across the coding teams to provide clarity and who is responsible (use Github project).
  2. Create coding teams (small group of individuals who work on one or more items and report back to EDT on progress)
  3. provide a 'fence' to developers (be a place where they can seek help)