Notes meeting 06/30/25

By Olivier Buisard on 2025-07-08 16:20 in Joomla! Enhancement Development Team

Present: Martin, Gary, Emmanuel, Shirielle, Olivier Objective:  Follow up on on-going projects Item discussed: Joomla Health Checker: magazine article on the way. GSoC and Academy: on-going. No issue reported. Elections: emails on the way Auto update PR recreated for the correct branch. Next Meeting: 2025-07-14 1500 UTC

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Joomla Bugsquad Meeting - July 7, 2025

By Martin Kopp on 2025-07-07 19:04 in Bug Squad

Attendees: Brian, Emmanuel, Hannes, Martin (Teamlead) - Duration: 60 minutes - Closed 6 no further Action Taken Issues. Discussed a few other issues. Hannes informed us about the switch from Drone CI to Github Action. Keep an eye on the Issues Cleanup Project. Thank you. Next Meeting:  July 28th, 2025 18:00 20:00 CEST 19:00 BST 18:00 UTC  

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GSoC'25 - Migrating CMSs meeting - report4

By Reem Atalah on 2025-07-05 16:39 in Google Summer of Code Joomla Team

What has been done throughout the week Clean delete after Cypress tests. Cypress tests for CMSs Unit tests for CMSs Add documentation in the repo (how to set up, run, and test the component). What to do next week Add release versions in the repo Separate user and developer docs Media Migration (including images within text) Furthur discussions WordPress Posts can have multiple categories, while joomla articles can have only one category. I need to get those data in...

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GSoC'25 - Joomla! Weblinks Extension [#4 Report]

By Mahmoud Magdy on 2025-07-04 20:25 in Google Summer of Code Joomla Team

What has been done through Week 5 Fix the behaviour of viewing child categories in weblinks module. Added Cypress tests to include the changes made in the weblinks module. Add the ability to choose nested categories level in weblinks module. Researched and tested the current issues on the weblinks repository. Next week plans Add Github Codespace support, which offers the ability to test PRs on the cloud, also a good development enivronment. Discuss midterm deliverables and...

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GSoC'25 - Joomla! AI Framework [Week Report #7]

By Charvi on 2025-07-02 17:34 in Google Summer of Code Joomla Team

Report Period: June 26 - July 2, 2025 The seventh Joomla! AI Framework project discussion meeting was successfully held on June 27, 2025. The meeting was attended by Benjamin Trenkle, Charvi Mehra, Eoin Oliver, Tushar and Shivam Rajput. Key Accomplishments June 26: Created Interface/AudioInterface.php defining standard audio capabilities Added core audio methods: speech(), getAvailableVoices(), getTTSModels(), getSupportedAudioFormats() Enhanced OpenAIProvider with AudioInterface...

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GSoC'25 - Joomla! AI Framework [Week Report #6]

By Charvi on 2025-07-02 17:29 in Google Summer of Code Joomla Team

Report Period: June 19-25, 2025 The sixth Joomla! AI Framework project discussion meeting was successfully held on June 20, 2025. The meeting was attended by Benjamin Trenkle, Charvi Mehra, Martina Scholz and Shivam Rajput. Key Accomplishments June 19: Researched OpenAI Image API editing capabilities requiring multipart/form-data requests Analyzed requirements for handling file uploads (images) with text parameters (prompts, model specifications) Prepared work progress presentations...

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JCM Kickoff meeting for the July issue

By Anja de Crom on 2025-07-01 16:23 in Community Magazine Team

Attendees:  Anja de Crom, Herman Peeren, Dan Atrill, Serge Billon, Viviana Menzel, Brian Teeman, Emmanuel Lemor, Louise Hawkins What did we talk about This was a chat meeting to collect ideas and find out what everyone's going to write for the July issue. It worked! We started out with 5 articles we were sure of and ended up with at least 10. And all the wihile, we had people coming in and moving out the channel, and the usual chaos and confusion.  The meeting lasted an...

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Production Dept. Meeting June 26, 2025

By Christiane Maier-Stadtherr on 2025-06-29 07:30 in Production

Duration:  11 minsAttendeesSigrid Gramlinger, Benjamin Trenkle, Christiane Maier-stadtherr, Herman Peeren, Martin Kopp, Olivier Buisard Production Department Coordinator (Sigrid Gramlinger) Semin-annual meeting announced Bug Squad  Team (Martin Kopp) Meeting held June 16th, nothing special CMS Release Team (Benjamin Trenkle) Released 5.4.0 Alpha 2 Released 6.0.0 Alpha 2 CMS Maintenance Team (Robert Deutz) Small team is working on our CI setup, looks like we are going to...

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GSoC'25 - Migrating CMSs meeting - report3

By Reem Atalah on 2025-06-28 00:31 in Google Summer of Code Joomla Team

What has been done throughout the week Cypress tests for migration Unit tests for migration What to do next week Clean delete after Cypress tests. Cypress tests for CMSs Unit tests for CMSs Add release versions in the repo Add documentation in the repo (how to set up, run, and test the component). Furthur discussions Prepare midterm deliverables Migration test: Test if the added articles are in UTC or local timezone

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GSoC'25 - Joomla! Weblinks Extension [#3 Report]

By Mahmoud Magdy on 2025-06-27 17:33 in Google Summer of Code Joomla Team

What has been done through Week 4 Modifed Frontend form to look like the backend form. Added 'options' and 'publishing' for frontend form. Added Cypress tests to test different operations from the frontend. Researching and testing issues that was present in main repo. Next week plans Fix the behaviour of viewing child categories in weblinks module. Reviewing and fixing any existing from last weeks pull requests.

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GSoC'25 - Workflow Enhancements [Week Report #7]

By Dileepkumar Adari on 2025-06-27 01:02 in Google Summer of Code Joomla Team

Report Period: June 23–27, 2025 The seventh Workflow Enhancements project review meeting was held on June 27, 2025. The meeting was attended by Benjamin Trenkle, Dileep Adari and Christiane Maier-Stadtherr. It was focused on improving the workflow graph editor's logic, UI, and API integration.. What has been done throughout the week June 23: Completed pending tasks from the previous week. Added transitions, placement logic, and initial setup for the workflow graph...

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OSM, Inc. - Semi-Annual Members Meeting 26 June, 2025

By Philip Walton on 2025-06-26 09:22 in Board of Directors

Open Source Matters Semi-Annual Members Meeting Minutes Date: June 26, 2025Time: 17:00 UTCPlatform: Google MeetMeeting Type: Full Session (following two earlier Q&A sessions) 1. Call to Order (17:09 UTC) The meeting was called to order by Secretary Phil Walton at 17:09 UTC after waiting for all attendees to join. 2. Roll Call and Attendance Board Members Present: Maria Skampoura (President) Emmanuel Lemor (Vice President) Phil Walton (Secretary) Nadja Lamisch...

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Notes meeting 06/16/25

By Olivier Buisard on 2025-06-23 16:37 in Joomla! Enhancement Development Team

Present: Benjamin, Martin, Gary, Emmanuel, Phil, Shirielle, Olivier Objective:  Follow up on on-going projects Item discussed: Joomla Health Checker: presentation UI concept, review by the team. GSoC and Academy: on-going. No issue reported. Articles issued in the magazine. Elections: delayed Recruiting volunteers: focus on young generations but retiring developers are a good source as well. Next Meeting: 2025-06-30 1500 UTC

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GSoC'25 - Migrating CMSs meeting - report2

By Reem Atalah on 2025-06-20 11:18 in Google Summer of Code Joomla Team

What has been done throughout the week Migrating categories. Migrating users shouldn't need an additional code (except the CMS-ccm.json file), but it has not been tested yet. We have added reference IDs to be used when we migrate articles. So now we can migrate posts from WordPress to Joomla articles using the correct category IDs. What to do next week Initialize cypress and unit tests in the new component. Furthur discussions We need to have only one "Uncategorized" category...

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GSoC'25 - Joomla! Weblinks Extension [#2 Report]

By Mahmoud Magdy on 2025-06-20 10:47 in Google Summer of Code Joomla Team

What has been done through Week 3 Added Cypress tests to include API requests for weblinks categories, custom fields, and field groups. Added Cypress tests to include filters for GET requests for all endpoints. Modified API documentation to include filters for GET requests. Fixed some issues that was present in previous pull requests. Next week plans Modifying Frontend form to look like the backend form, and to have 'options' and 'publishing' Reviewing and fixing any existing from...

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Recap PBF February 2025

By Olivier Buisard on 2025-06-20 09:38 in PBF Organization Team

Recap of event Contributions 43 recorded contributors (4 officially working on doc) 14 countries represented UK/France/Belgium/Bangladesh/Netherlands/Germany/Vietnam/Denmark/Greece/Switzerland/Austria/Canada/Italy/USA 23 Patches tested (from the list we provided) 4 PRs merged (labelled pbf) 4 PRs created (that have been recorded) 1 PR improved, tested and now merged into 6.0 (Featured view in the admin console) 26 articles were submitted for user documentation. Feedback Need to...

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GSoC'25 - Workflow Enhancements [Week Report #6]

By Dileepkumar Adari on 2025-06-20 00:12 in Google Summer of Code Joomla Team

Report Period: June 16–20, 2025 The sixth Workflow Enhancements project review meeting was held on June 20, 2025. The meeting was attended by Benjamin Trenkle, Dileep Adari and Christiane Maier-Stadtherr. It was focused on reviewing the implemented canvas functionality and UI enhancements. What has been done throughout the week June 16: Completed pending tasks from the previous week. Initiated implementation of event triggers to retrieve data from Controllers. Set up the...

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GSoC'25 - Joomla! AI Framework [Week Report #5]

By Charvi on 2025-06-19 11:31 in Google Summer of Code Joomla Team

Report Period: June 12-18, 2025 The fifth Joomla! AI Framework project discussion meeting was successfully held on June 13, 2025. The meeting was attended by Benjamin Trenkle, Charvi Mehra and Shivam Rajput. Key Accomplishments June 12: Conducted testing with real API keys to validate functionality Researched OpenAI core capabilities, models, and endpoints for phased development approach Prepared work progress presentations and defined next steps June 13: Demonstrated basic...

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Joomla Bugsquad Meeting - June 16, 2025

By Martin Kopp on 2025-06-16 19:10 in Bug Squad

Attendees: Brian, Emmanuel, Christiane, Martin (Teamlead) - Duration: 50 minutes - Closed 8 no further Action Taken Issues. Discussed a few other issues. Bringing one issue to maintainers. Next Meeting:  July 7th, 2025 18:00 20:00 CEST 19:00 BST 18:00 UTC

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Production Dept. Meeting June 10, 2025

By Christiane Maier-Stadtherr on 2025-06-16 11:51 in Production

Duration:  25 minsAttendeesSigrid Gramlinger, Chrisitane Maier-stadtherr, Harald Leithner, Herman Peeren, Martin Kopp, Richard Fath, Robert Deutz, Viviana Menzel Production Department Coordinator (Sigrid Gramlinger) Budgets of all teams are finished. Sigrid presented how to organise a sprint, and offers help for planning. Security Strike Team (David Jardin) Currently testing a new static code analysis tool, looks promising. Joomla has been granted with the “Provider” level...

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GSoC'25 - Joomla! AI Framework [Week Report #4]

By Charvi on 2025-06-15 09:42 in Google Summer of Code Joomla Team

Report Period: June 5-11, 2025 The fourth Joomla! AI Framework project discussion meeting was held on June 6, 2025. The meeting was attended by Benjamin Trenkle, Charvi Mehra and Shivam Rajput. Key Accomplishments June 5: Attended GSoC community bonding Q&A session June 6: Started development of AbstractProvider.php containing shared functionality for all AI providers Discussed current progress and next steps with mentors Received guidance on implementation...

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GSoC'25 - Workflow Enhancements [Week Report #5]

By Dileepkumar Adari on 2025-06-13 18:28 in Google Summer of Code Joomla Team

Report Period: June 09–13, 2025 The fifth Workflow Enhancements project review meeting was held on June 13, 2025. The meeting was attended by Benjamin Trenkle, Dileep Adari and Christiane Maier-Stadtherr. It was focused on reviewing the implemented part of the design and the suggestions for the alignments of the components. What has been done throughout the week June 13: Completed pending prior week tasks. Started working on the implementation of the designed UI and...

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GSoC'25 - Joomla! Weblinks Extension [First Two Meetings]

By Mahmoud Magdy on 2025-06-13 10:51 in Google Summer of Code Joomla Team

The meetings were attended by Mahmoud Magdy and Nicola Galgano. What has been done through Week-1 (6/1 - 6/7) - (First Drop) Fixed the Webservices manifest. Implemented public GET endpoints with rate-limiting in the Webservices plugin. Added changelog functionality. What has been done through Week-2 (6/7 - 6/13) - (End of First Drop - Second Drop in Progress) Developed a QuickIcon plugin. Automatic unpublish plugin for Weblinks. API documentation using OpenAPI 3.0...

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GSoC'25 - Migrating CMSs meeting - report1

By Reem Atalah on 2025-06-13 08:21 in Google Summer of Code Joomla Team

The meeting was attended by Reem Atalah, Herman Peeren, and Martin Kopp. What has been done throughout the week CCM structure for posts/articles. Joomla-ccm mapping and WordPress-ccm mapping Dynamic migration from WordPress posts to Joomla articles (with some customised headers)  Migration UI What to do next week Migrating categories Migrating media Migrating users Furthur discussions Add the values and entities(like comments in WordPress) that aren't in Joomla to be...

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JCM Meeting Report, June 2025

By Anja de Crom on 2025-06-12 15:47 in Community Magazine Team

Attendees: Anja de Crom, Dan Atrill, Brian Teeman, Louise Hawkins, Viviana Menzel, Maria Skampoura What did we talk about This was a chat meeting to go over the content of the June issue. We have a good number of articles in the making, and during the meeting two extra articles were added to the issue plan. The meeting lasted 45 minutes. Want to join a JCM meeting? You are more than welcome! Our meetings take place in the dedicated JCM channel on Mattermost. They're chat meetings, so...

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Production Dept. Meeting May 27, 2025

By Christiane Maier-Stadtherr on 2025-06-10 10:01 in Production

Duration: 16 minsAttendeesSigrid Gramlinger, Benjamin Trenkle, Chrisitane Maier-stadtherr, Herman Peeren, Gary Barclay, Heiko Lübbe, Martin Kopp, Olivier Buisard, Philip Walton, Richard Fath, Viviana Menzel CMS Release Team (Benjamin Trenkle) Joomla! 5.3.1 released Joomla! 5.4.0 Alpha 1 released Joomla! 6.0.0 Alpha 1 released   Automated Testing Team (Allon Moritz): Evaluating Gitlab CI as replacement for our drone CI, currently internal for the Digital Peak projects. When...

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Notes meeting 06/02/25

By Olivier Buisard on 2025-06-09 23:40 in Joomla! Enhancement Development Team

Present: Benjamin, Martin, Gary, Emmanuel, Olivier Objective:  Follow up on on-going projects Item discussed: Joomla Health Checker: looking forward next meeting where we will talk about UI and functionality to include. GSoC and Academy: on-going. No issue reported. B/C plugin on/off.  Next Meeting: 2025-06-16 1500 UTC

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GSoC'25 - Workflow Enhancements [Week Report #4]

By Dileepkumar Adari on 2025-06-06 17:47 in Google Summer of Code Joomla Team

Report Period: June 02–06, 2025 The fourth Workflow Enhancements project review meeting was held on June 06, 2025. The meeting was attended by Benjamin Trenkle, Dileep Adari and Christiane Maier-Stadtherr. It was focused on reviewing the UI designed on Figma and the suggestions for implementation. What has been done throughout the week June 02: Completed pending prior week tasks. Created initial Figma prototype of graphical workflow builder. June 03 -...

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GSoC'25 - Joomla! AI Framework [Week Report #3]

By Charvi on 2025-06-04 09:34 in Google Summer of Code Joomla Team

Report Period: May 29 - June 4, 2025 The third Joomla! AI Framework project discussion meeting was held on May 30, 2025. The meeting was attended by Benjamin Trenkle, Charvi Mehra and Shivam Rajput. Key Accomplishments May 29: Analyzed Joomla's CMS-specific HTTP implementation under libraries/src/Http with Factory integration patterns Studied HttpFactory's transport detection mechanism (cURL, streams, sockets) and automatic fallback logic Discussed architectural approach with mentors...

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GSoC'25 - Workflow Enhancements [Week Report #3]

By Dileepkumar Adari on 2025-05-30 17:41 in Google Summer of Code Joomla Team

Report Period: May 26–30, 2025 The third Workflow Enhancements project review meeting was held on May 30, 2025. The meeting was attended by Benjamin Trenkle, Dileep Adari and Christiane Maier-Stadtherr. It was focused on reviewing the packages/modules that can be used and the available plugins. What has been done throughout the week May 26: Completed pending prior week tasks. Started analyzing graph editor implementations in other CMS platforms. May...

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