GSoC'26 - Translator Feedback Loop [Week Report #11]

By Krishna Gandhi on 2026-08-09 13:28 in Google Summer of Code Joomla Team

For an overview of how things are going, see the Kanban board of the project Done this week:   - Raised a pull request on the Joomla core repository, (the first to core of this project): editing a category quietly dropped any unpublished translation from its association group, and republishing did not bring it back. It was found while extending re-translation to categories, traced to a 2018 change meant for the frontend language switcher, verified against `5.4-dev`, and fixed...

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OSM Inc. Board Meeting July 23, 2026

By Bruce Scherzinger on 2026-08-03 16:54 in Board of Directors

Open Source Matters, Inc.Full Board of Directors and Officers Meeting Date: 2026-07-23Start Time: 17:10 UTCEnd Time: 20:20 UTCTotal time of meeting: 2 hours 20 minutes Attendees: President - Elisa Foltyn Vice President - Emmanuel Lemor Treasurer - Ufuk Avcu Operations DC - Carlos Cámara Production DC - Sigrid Gramlinger Secretary - Bruce Scherzinger Apologies: Outreach DC - Richard Gosler Proxies: None Discussion Synopsis Treasurer FY 2025/26 financial...

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GSoC'26 - Translator Feedback Loop [Week Report #10]

By Krishna Gandhi on 2026-08-02 17:11 in Google Summer of Code Joomla Team

For an overview of how things are going, see the Kanban board of the project Done this week:   - Ran the whole feedback loop end to end for the first time: an article was translated, corrected by hand, approved, and distilled into three rules, and re-translating the same source then produced the translation with all three corrections on its own, covering terminology, tone and a term kept untranslated.- Split saving from approving in the editor: Save now only saves, Approve...

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Marketing Meeting - 23 July 2026

By Cyril Reze on 2026-07-31 11:17 in Marketing Team

Date: 23 July 2026 - 18:00-20:00 CEST (4:00pm - 6:00pm UTC) Attendees: Cyril Rezé, Emmanuel Lemor (part 1), Mike Kritzer, Nadja Lamisch. Guest: Elisa Foltyn, President OSM (part 1: sponsoring)    Sponsorship Strategy and Revenue Diversification State of the sponsoring Current ad partner generating low income, likely replaceable Sponsors listed on the site is not up-to-date (Elisa contacted all the past sponsors on the list to revive their sponsorship) Our...

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Edit JCM Kickoff Meeting for the August issue

By Anja de Crom on 2026-07-30 15:22 in Community Magazine Team

Attendees: Anja de Crom, Claudia Weber-Lenck, Brian Teeman, Viviana Menzel, Herman Peeren, Emmanuel Lemor, Louise Hawkins, Richard Gosler What did we talk about This was a chat meeting to go collect ideas for the August issue - the birthday issue, Joomla turns 21 on the 17th. Creativity flowed and ideas were thrown around, so the issue once again looks good (this must be the most boring team within the whole of Joomla). We have a good number of quality articles in the planning. The...

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Production Dept. Meeting July 21, 2026

By Christiane Maier-Stadtherr on 2026-07-28 18:12 in Production

Duration: 12mins Attendees: Benjamin Trenkle, Christiane Maier-stadtherr, Herman Peeren, Heiko Lübbe, Richard Fath, Viviana Manzel Production Department Coordinator (Sigrid Gramlinger) Sprint planning for JWC CMS Maintenance Team (Beniamin Trenkle) Regular Wednesday meeting going along. Feedback see in the GitHub tracker. CMS Release Team (Stefan Wendhausen) Release managers (names in alphabetical order)Release 6.2 (Martin Kopp, Viviana Menzel):Alpha 3 successfully...

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GSoC'26 - Translator Feedback Loop [Week Report #9]

By Krishna Gandhi on 2026-07-27 19:33 in Google Summer of Code Joomla Team

For an overview of how things are going, see the Kanban board of the project Done this week:   - Built RAG: published translation rules are now retrieved and injected into the translation prompt, so the machine translation follows them (#7, #8, merged).- Retrieval works in three tiers: flatten the item's text, one indexed query for the published rules of the target language, then whole word matching, capped so the prompt stays bounded.- Live tested it in German across terminology,...

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Joomla Bug Squad Meeting - July 27th, 2026

By Martin Kopp on 2026-07-27 16:23 in Bug Squad

Attendees: Hitesh M, Martin (Teamlead) - Duration: 20 minutes - Discussed 1 item on the agenda - please check agenda and add to it!.  Thank you for joining. Next Meeting:  August 10th 2026 18:00 CEST 16:00 UTC.

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OSM Inc. Board Meeting July 9, 2026

By Bruce Scherzinger on 2026-07-27 16:19 in Board of Directors

Open Source Matters, Inc.Full Board of Directors and Officers Meeting Date: 2026-07-09Start Time: 17:00 UTCEnd Time: 19:34 UTCTotal time of meeting: 2 hours 34 minutes Attendees: President - Elisa Foltyn Vice President - Emmanuel Lemor Treasurer - Ufuk Avcu Operations DC - Carlos Cámara Production DC - Sigrid Gramlinger Outreach DC - Richard Gosler Secretary - Bruce Scherzinger Apologies: Secretary left the meeting at 18:55 UTC Operations DC left the meeting at 19:05...

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GSoC'26 – Multi-category Support for Joomla [week Report #9]

By Reda Mohamed on 2026-07-25 17:04 in Google Summer of Code Joomla Team

What I have done Completed multi-category support for com_newsfeeds, including backend integration, saving/loading secondary categories, and category filtering. Implemented custom fields support for the API in both com_content (articles) and com_contact, ensuring fields assigned to secondary categories load and save correctly. Resolved API PATCH request behaviors to safely preserve existing tags when payloads are sent without a tags property. Continued extensive testing...

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GSoC'26 - Translator Feedback Loop [Week Report #8]

By Krishna Gandhi on 2026-07-20 17:33 in Google Summer of Code Joomla Team

For an overview of how things are going, see the Kanban board of the project Done this week: - Defaulted the translation queue status filter to "review" on a first visit, so translators land on the items waiting for feedback while the filter stays clearable (merged, #18). - Backfilled pre-existing Joomla associations into the translation queue on install, so already-translated articles show their real per-language state instead of "No translation yet" and are not offered for...

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GSoC'26 – Multi-category Support for Joomla [week Report #8]

By Reda Mohamed on 2026-07-20 08:35 in Google Summer of Code Joomla Team

What I have done Completed the implementation of context-aware navigation for items assigned to multiple categories. Added multi-category support to com_banners, including backend integration, saving/loading secondary categories, and category filtering. Fixed issues discovered during testing to ensure consistent behavior across supported components. Continued testing and refining the implementation. Problems Encountered some component-specific differences in category handling and...

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Production Dept. Meeting July 07, 2026

By Christiane Maier-Stadtherr on 2026-07-19 07:44 in Production

Duration: 17mins Attendees: Sigrid Gramlinger, Benjamin Trenkle, Christiane Maier-stadtherr, Herman Peeren, Heiko Lübbe, Martin Kopp, Olivier Buisard, Richard Fath, Viviana Manzel CMS Maintenance Team (Beniamin Trenkle) Wednesday reviewing continues. Looking for another sprint soonish. CMS Release Team (Stefan Wendhausen) Release managers (names in alphabetical order) Release 5.4 (Heiko Lübbe, Richard Fath): 5.4.7 security and bugfix release released

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JCM Submit-Your-Stuff Meeting for the July issue

By Anja de Crom on 2026-07-16 15:00 in Community Magazine Team

Attendees: Anja de Crom, Dan Atrill, Serge Billon, Herman Peeren, Christiane Maier-Stadtherr, Viviana Menzel What did we talk about This was a chat meeting meant to go over the list of articles in the making. For July, we have a good number of interesting articles. A lot is happening in the Joomlasphere right now and the Joomla Community Magazine is on top of it. So keep an eye out for this month's issue, you won't be disappointed!  The meeting lasted around 40 minutes. Want to...

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Joomla Academy 2026 – Ajaxified Backend [Midterm Report]

By Adarsh Dubey on 2026-07-15 17:25 in Academy

Here is a summary of the work completed during the first half of the coding period Added SubmissionContext to derive the component, view, controller and normalized task action from submitted administrator forms. Added SubmissionEligibility backed by server provided Joomla script options, allowing supported tasks to use AJAX while unsupported tasks continue through native form submission. Added a reusable SubmissionTransport that submits the existing form as FormData, follows...

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GSoC'26 - Automated Workflow [Week Report #6] - Midterm

By Weno Ndum Billy Hans on 2026-07-10 13:45 in Google Summer of Code Joomla Team

A sync meeting was held on July 06. The midterm evaluation was completed this week. What has been done throughout the week July 06: Worked out the design for the conditions/filters feature and the one-to-many rules model; sync meeting with mentors. July 07: Shared the filters & transition-conditions design doc; completed the midterm evaluation; registered to present at JUG London. Incorporated review feedback (separating filters from conditions, moving to nested boolean expressions,...

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GSoC'26 – Multi-category Support for Joomla [Midterm Report]

By Reda Mohamed on 2026-07-09 06:48 in Google Summer of Code Joomla Team

Here's a summary of the work completed during the first half of the coding period:   Added support for assigning multiple categories to articles while keeping a single primary category. Added the secondary categories field to the administrator article form. Added the same functionality to frontend article editing. Added support for creating secondary categories directly from the field. Updated custom fields so fields assigned to secondary categories are available...

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CMS Release Team Meeting July 8, 2026

By Stefan Wendhausen on 2026-07-08 18:48 in CMS Release Team

Participants: Jenn, Christiane, Martin, Sigrid, Heiko, Harald, Olivier, Benjamin, Martina, Stefan; We discussed the two releases, 5.4.7 and 6.1.2.

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GSoC'26 - Translator Feedback Loop [Midterm Report]

By Krishna Gandhi on 2026-07-07 10:42 in Google Summer of Code Joomla Team

For an overview of how things are going, see the Kanban board of the project 36 pull requests merged since coding began on May 25. Summary of what has been done: - Set up the com_translations component for Joomla 6 (J5-compatible): installer, service providers, database tables for the translation queue, per-language queue states, feedback and rules. - Built the translation queue as a grid view: source items as rows, installed target languages as columns, each cell showing that item's...

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Production Dept. Meeting June 23, 2026

By Christiane Maier-Stadtherr on 2026-07-07 07:51 in Production

Duration: 12mins Attendees: Sigrid Gramlinger, Benjamin Trenkle, David Jardin, Herman Peeren, Heiko Lübbe, Martin Kopp, Olivier Buisard, Richard Fath Production Department Coordinator (Sigrid Gramlinger) Budgets will be discussed in the board meeting. Bug Squad  Team (Martin Kopp) Having bi-weekly meetings now Mondays at 16:00 UTC CMS Maintenance Team (Beniamin Trenkle) Magazine article and report for sprint created, beside that, weekly PR decisions can be looked up on...

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OSM Inc. Board Meeting June 26, 2026

By Bruce Scherzinger on 2026-07-06 17:03 in Board of Directors

Open Source Matters, Inc.Full Board of Directors and Officers Meeting Date: 2026-06-25Start Time: 17:00 UTCEnd Time: 18:00 UTCTotal time of meeting: 1 hour Attendees: President - Elisa Foltyn Vice President - Emmanuel Lemor (late) Treasurer - Ufuk Avcu Production DC - Sigrid Gramlinger Outreach DC - Richard Gosler Secretary - Bruce Scherzinger Apologies: Emmanuel Lemor Carlos Cámara Proxies: Sigrid Gramlinger for Carlos Cámara (Operations DC) Discussion...

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Marketing Meeting - 18 June 2026

By Cyril Reze on 2026-07-03 16:43 in Marketing Team

Date: 18 June 2026 - 19:00-20:00 CEST (5:00pm - 6:00pm UTC) Attendees: Cyril Rezé, Emmanuel Lemor, Josean Telleria, Mike Kritzer, Richard Gosler.   Security Incidents An active wave of hacking is affecting numerous Joomla sites within the community. AI-assisted hacking is intensifying the threat. This affects not only Joomla but all web platforms. The JED's VEL list is not up to date. How should Joomla communicate with users, and how can information on this subject be...

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GSoC'26 - Automated Workflow [Week Report #5]

By Weno Ndum Billy Hans on 2026-07-03 13:43 in Google Summer of Code Joomla Team

A sync meeting was held on June 29 (Dileep Adari, Tushar Malik). Priorities were set around failure notifications, filters/conditions, and a security review; article-level scheduling was kept as a stretch item. What has been done throughout the week June 29: Sync meeting; started scaffolding the next issues. June 30 – July 01: Addressed review comments on PR #6 (added backend validation before saving automation values, per Dileep's feedback); created the GitHub issues discussed...

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JCM Kickoff Meeting for the July issue

By Anja de Crom on 2026-06-30 15:04 in Community Magazine Team

Attendees: Anja de Crom, Dan Atrill, Brian Teeman, Serge Billon, Viviana Menzel, Herman Peeren, Christiane Maier-Stadtherr What did we talk about This was a chat meeting to go collect ideas for the July issue. Since we had a lot of content for the June issue, we've moved a few articles from June to July, and together with the articles that were proposed today, we have around 15 articles for July, which is good.Anja has had the annual JCM Happiness Talk with most of the team members. The...

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Joomla Bug Squad Meeting - June 29th, 2026

By Martin Kopp on 2026-06-29 20:02 in Bug Squad

Attendees: Abdelrahman, Hannes, Christiane, Martina, Martin (Teamlead) - Duration: 45 minutes - Discussed 0 items on the agenda - please check agenda and add to it!.  Discussed a PR from Abdelraham. Thank you for joining. Next Meeting:  July 13th 2026 18:00 CEST 16:00 UTC.

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GSoC'26 - Automated Workflow [Week Report #4]

By Weno Ndum Billy Hans on 2026-06-26 13:40 in Google Summer of Code Joomla Team

Focus: the Automation tab UI, end-to-end testing, and the first PR. What has been done throughout the week Built the Automation tab on the transition edit screen: interval/cron configuration and a run-as user, with TransitionModel save/load and backend validation. Tested on a fresh install with Blog Workflow fixtures, including an article chaining through the full editorial pipeline (Idea → Copywriting → … → Unpublished) hands-free. Completed transition-level automation and...

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OSM Inc. Board Meeting June 11, 2026

By Bruce Scherzinger on 2026-06-23 15:16 in Board of Directors

Open Source Matters, Inc.Full Board of Directors and Officers Meeting Date: 2026-06-11Start Time: 17:00 UTCEnd Time: 18:40 UTCTotal time of meeting: 1 hour 40 minutes Attendees: President - Elisa Foltyn Vice President - Emmanuel Lemor Treasurer - Ufuk Avcu Operations DC - Carlos Cámara Production DC - Sigrid Gramlinger Outreach DC - Richard Gosler Secretary - Bruce Scherzinger Discussion Synopsis Treasurer Budget 2026–27 The fiscal year ends on 30 June, so the budget plan...

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Production Dept. Meeting June 9, 2026

By Christiane Maier-Stadtherr on 2026-06-22 07:03 in Production

Duration: 10mins Attendees: Benjamin Trenkle, Christiane Maier-Stadtherr, Herman Peeren, Martin Kopp, Olivier Buisard, Richard Fath, Stefan Wendhausen, Viviana Menzel   Production Department Coordinator (Sigrid Gramlinger) STF Call for Selection Committee is open. You can nominate yourself or somebody else for the Selection Committee. The Committee will be selecting the contractors for the different...

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GSoC'26 - Automated Workflow [Week Report #3]

By Weno Ndum Billy Hans on 2026-06-19 13:17 in Google Summer of Code Joomla Team

Focus: run-as execution, timezone correctness, and hardening. What has been done throughout the week Diagnosed that executeTransition() returned false under the scheduler because it runs as a guest (no logged-in user), so the core.execute.transition permission check failed. Fixed it by loading the rule's run_as_user_id as the application identity before firing, then restoring it afterward; no changes to core. Fixed timezone handling by computing deadlines in...

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CMS Release Team Meeting June 17, 2026

By Stefan Wendhausen on 2026-06-17 18:15 in CMS Release Team

Participants: Stefan, Heiko, Martin, Richard, Torsten and Rachel; We discussed the upcoming releases on 7 July and finalised the testing schedule internally.

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