Reports

Capital Team Meeting - April 13th, 2026

By Carlos Cámara on 2026-04-14 17:41 in Capital Team

The meeting focused on discussing the Joomla Supporters Club iniciative – a voluntary annual contribution model with digital badges and no governance rights. We also shared a new sponsorship offer and the need of a Team Leader . Duration: 1 hour Attendees Carlos Cámara (OD Coordinator), Joe Sonne (member), Brian Teeman (Contributor) Topics Welcome and Team presentation Current financial situationWe...

JCM Submit-Your-Stuff Meeting for the April issue

By Anja de Crom on 2026-04-14 14:04 in Community Magazine Team

Attendees: Anja de Crom, Claudia Weber-Lenck,Dan Atrill, Emmanuel Lemor, Brian Teeman, Herman Peeren Not attending: Cyril Reze, Richard Gosler, Serge Billon What did we talk about This was a chat meeting to go over the content of the April issue. We have a very diverse list of articles for this issue, so it will be nice to see what eventually will be submitted in time. If an article won't make it for April after all, we'll move it to May. It's good to have articles in the...

Joomla Bug Squad Meeting - Apr 13th, 2026

By Martin Kopp on 2026-04-13 19:04 in Bug Squad

Attendees: Adarsh Dubey, Krishna Gandhi, al ikon, Weno Hans, Emmanuel, Martin (Teamlead) - Duration: 60 minutes - Discussed 4 items on the agenda - discussed issues on the identity portal (to get to Mattermost). Thank you. Next Meeting: May 4th, 2026 (time yet to be determined - check Bug Squad channel or invitation)

Status of the team

By Allon Moritz on 2026-04-07 12:38 in Automated Testing Team

The automated testing team is responsible for different kind of tests which can be run in an automated way. Mainly they are executed when authors offer code changes on Github. Here a few intersting stats about the current status: Code style checks Code style checks do help to have a unique code style accross the whole code base. Files for PHP code style checks are 3232. JS, SCSS and CSS code style checks Unit/integration tests Integration and unit tests are low lewel code tests,...

Production Dept. Meeting March 31, 2026

By Christiane Maier-Stadtherr on 2026-04-01 14:27 in Production

Duration: 20mins Attendees: Sigrid Gramlinger, Herman Peeren, Gary Barclay, Heiko Lübbe, Martin Kopp, Olivier Buisard, Philip Walton, Richard Fath Production Department Coordinator (Sigrid Gramlinger) We are in the next stage of the Sovereign Tech Agency application for "Joomla! Core Accessibility Modernization" — a 500,000 EUR / 18-month project for WCAG 2.2 AA conformance, a framework-agnostic design system, and accessible templates, fully aligned with the Joomla 8 roadmap. Submission to...

Notes meeting 3/23/26

By Olivier Buisard on 2026-03-31 18:50 in Joomla! Enhancement Development Team

Present: Herman, Benjamin, Martin, Shirielle, Olivier Objective: Joomla Health Checker, PBF and GSoC updates. Item discussed: - Health Checker: Creation of PRs towards the 6.2-dev branch to collect feedback Check joomla-projects/HealthChecker. Next Meeting: 2026-04-06 1500 UTC

JCM Kickoff meeting for the April issue

By Anja de Crom on 2026-03-31 15:12 in Community Magazine Team

Attendees: Anja de Crom, Claudia Weber-Lenck,Dan Atrill, Emmanuel Lemor, Brian Teeman, Christiane Maier-Stadtherr, Viviana Menzel, Serge Billon, Herman Peeren What did we talk about This was a chat meeting to go collect ideas for the April issue. After the idea-collecting, we had a lively discussion about AI. Some of us don't care if a text is AI generated or not, others (including me) prefer content written by humans for humans. In our guidelines we clearly state authors...

July 2024 - March 2026

By Benjamin Trenkle on 2026-03-25 12:18 in CMS Maintenance Team

CMS Maintenance Team Report Period: July 2024 - March 2026 Author: Phil Walton Date: 25 March 2026 Since the last report (June 2024), the CMS Maintenance Team has continued its weekly Wednesday meetings, reviewing and processing pull requests across the Joomla CMS repository. This report provides a factual summary of PR activity over the 21-month period. Summary Count PRs merged 1,654 PRs still open 190 PRs closed without merge 520 Total PRs...

OSM Inc. Board Meeting 19 March 2026

By Bruce Scherzinger on 2026-03-24 10:59 in Board of Directors

Date: 19 March 2026 Time: 18:00 UTC Total time of meeting: 2 hours 15 minutes Attendees: Vice President Emmanuel Lemor, Treasurer Ufuk Avcu, Production DC Sigrid Gramlinger, Outreach DC Richard Gosler, Operations DC Carlos Cámara , Secretary Angie RadtkeSecretary Elect Bruce Scherzinger Treasurer Venable payment completed. Transferred €5000 from Savings IMMA to Business Checking Responsibility should be transferred to secretary take over Phil Walton’s...

Production Dept. Meeting March 17, 2026

By Christiane Maier-Stadtherr on 2026-03-24 07:41 in Production

Duration: 20mins Attendees: Sigriid Gramlinger, Benjamin Trenkle, Christiane Maier-Stadtherr, Harald Leithner, Herman Peeren, Heiko Lübbe, LLewellyn van der Merwe, Martin Kopp, Olivier Buisard, Philip Walton, Richard Fath, Viviana Menzel Production Department Coordinator (Sigrid Gramlinger) Magazine article on Post Release process for last TinyMCE issue published, explaining our procedure.Edited April 1 by Christiane Maier-Stadtherr We have an open application at the Sovereign Tech Fund...

Joomla Accessibility and Usability Team - Activities in the team

By Viviana Menzel on 2026-03-18 16:33 in Accessibility and Usability Team

In the last year (2025) about 12 pull requests related to accessibility were merged in Joomla core. We have still 29 open issues. We need to check if they are all valid and if they can be solved in the next months. A big improvement is coming for Joomla 7 (maybe for Joomla 6.2). Gioacchino Cipriano, who has re-activated the JUG Italy, has joined the team. The team is still looking for Team Leaders.

Joomla Bugsquad Meeting - March 16th, 2026

By Martin Kopp on 2026-03-16 20:08 in Bug Squad

Attendees: Christiane, Krishna Gandhi, Hannes, Martin (Teamlead) - Duration: 45 minutes - Discussed 3 issues on the agenda - Thank you. Next Meeting: April 13th, 2026 20:00 CET 19:00 UTC

JCM Monthly Submit-Your-Stuff meeting

By Anja de Crom on 2026-03-12 15:52 in Community Magazine Team

Attendees: Anja de Crom, Claudia Weber-Lenck,Dan Atrill, Emmanuel Lemor, Christiane Maier-Stadtherr, Viviana Menzel, Carlos Cámara Not attending but shared the status of their articles in advance: Serge Billon, Herman Peeren What did we talk about This was a chat meeting to go over the content of the March issue. We have a huge list of proposed articles for this issue, so it will be nice to see what eventually will be submitted in time. If an article won't make it for March,...

OSM Inc. Board Meeting 05 March 2026

By Angie Radtke on 2026-03-10 10:59 in Board of Directors

Date: 05 March 2026 Time: 20:00 UTC Total time of meeting: 1 hours 52 minutes Attendees: Vice President Emmanuel Lemor, Treasurer Ufuk Avcu, Production DC Sigrid Gramlinger, Outreach DC Richard Gosler, Operations DC Carlos Camera , Secretary Angie RadtkeGuest: New Secretary Bruce Scherzinger Treasurer There are still outstanding payments to the lawyers; we are waiting for the corrected invoice. Emmanuel Lemor will be registered as a user with Relay Financial....

Production Dept. Meeting March 03, 2026

By Christiane Maier-Stadtherr on 2026-03-09 20:09 in Production

Duration: 23mins Attendees: Sigriid Gramliger, Benjamin Trenkle, Christiane Maier-Stadtherr, David Jardin, Herman Peeren, Gary Barclay, Martin Kopp, Olivier Buisard, Richard Fath, Stefan Wendhausen Sigtrid re-elected with 100% of votes, Congratulations! Production Department Coordinator (Sigrid Gramlinger) Start planning sprints for Oct 15, 2026- the day before the Joomla World Conference. Here is the Sprint Planning Template (copy and use it). Let me know if you need any...

Notes meeting 2/23/26

By Olivier Buisard on 2026-03-03 16:03 in Joomla! Enhancement Development Team

Present: Herman, Benjamin, Martin, Shirielle, Olivier Objective: Joomla Health Checker, PBF and GSoC updates. Item discussed: - Health Checker: demo and website ready for public feedback. PR on the way to show implementation. Target is soon after the release of 6.1 so it can be discussed and hopefully included in 6.2.- PBF: issue with the Holopin account, in resolution. - GSoC: Joomla accepted as mentoring organization for another year...

JCM Kickoff meeting for the March issue

By Anja de Crom on 2026-02-26 16:59 in Community Magazine Team

Attendees: Anja de Crom, Claudia Weber-Lenck, Serge Billon, Viviana Menzel, Brian Teeman, Dan Atrill, Emmanuel LemorShared ideas in advance because they couldn't join: Herman Peeren and Dan Atrill What did we talk about This was our usual chat meeting to collect ideas and find out what everyone's going to write for the March issue. Like every month I'm amazed and humbled by the never ending stream of ideas our authors come up with. We have a good number of great article proposals in...

OSM Inc. Board Meeting 19. Feb. 2026

By Angie Radtke on 2026-02-25 10:36 in Board of Directors

Date: 19. February 2026 Time: 19:00 UTC, Total time of meeting: 1 hours Participants: Vice President - Emmanuel Lemor, Treasurer - Ufuk Avcu, Production DC - Sigrid Gramlinger, Outreach DC - Richard Gosler, Secretary - Angie Radtke Discussion outline Treasurer Report on the current financial situation with an outlook for the coming years Breakdown of the most important annual expenses A discount at Venable was secured thanks to the efforts of Emmanuel Lemor and Angie...

Production Dept. Meeting February 17, 2026

By Christiane Maier-Stadtherr on 2026-02-23 22:13 in Production

Duration: 5 mins (shortest ever, it is carnival, mardi gras)AttendeesSigrid Gramlinger, Christiane Maier-Stadtherr, Herman Peeren, Gary Barclay, Heiko Lübbe, Martin Kopp, Richard Fath, Stefan Wendhausen, Viviana Menzel Production Department Coordinator (Sigrid Gramlinger) Motion for AI Guidelines passed! CMS Maintenance Team (Beniamin Trenkle) Improve PR template to auto link issues and close issues on merge Plan to add an automated first post on new PR to outline the...

Joomla Bugsquad Meeting - Feb 23rd, 2026

By Martin Kopp on 2026-02-23 20:26 in Bug Squad

Attendees: Hannes, Christiane, Brian, Alikon, Krishna Gandhi, Martin (Teamlead) - Duration: 45 minutes - Discussed 2 issues on the agenda, Talked about handling feature requests in the future (moved to discussions) - Thank you. Next Meeting: March 16th, 2026 20:00 CET 19:00 UTC

Marketing Meeting - February 11th, 2026

By Cyril Reze on 2026-02-18 16:06 in Marketing Team

Date: February 11th, 2026 - 18:00-19:00 UTCAttendees: Cyril Rezé, Emmanuel Lemor, Mike Kritzer, Nadja Lamisch Topics & Highlights POST JWC 2026 Marketing Plan Presentation The meeting opened with brief greetings and acknowledgements of contributors to the Marketing plan and presentation work, including thanks to Mike and Cyril for their effort. Participants exchanged appreciation and set a positive tone before substantive discussion began. Marketing Plan The team praised the...

UXD Study WG Meeting February 10th, 2026

By Carlos Cámara on 2026-02-12 17:25 in UXD Study [WG]

Dr. Misra reported that a student has left the Rutgers project team, but has generously offered to recruit other students to continue the work. The group discussed rescheduling meetings to better accommodate student availability and agreed to launch a new form to recruit testers for the upcoming UX study, similar to the one used previously. Duration: 1 hour Attendees OSM members: Carlos Cámara, Emmanuel Lemor, Laura Gordon, Mark Fleeson, Cyril Reze Rutgers: Danielle Bosworth...

OSM Inc. Board Meeting 05. Feb. 2026

By Angie Radtke on 2026-02-12 09:47 in Board of Directors

Date: 05. February 2026 Time: 19:00 UTC, Total time of meeting: 2 hours Participants:Vice President - Emmanuel Lemor, Treasurer - Ufuk Avcu, Production DC - Sigrid Gramlinger, Outreach DC - Richard Gosler, Secretary - Angie Radtke, Apologies: President - vacant, Operations DC - vacant Members of the Joomla World Conference Team: Nadja Lamisch, Martin Koop Martin Kopp and Nadja Lamisch left at 18:36 Ufuk Avcu left at 19:30 Discussion outline Joomla World Conference Team: Organisation Team...

Production Dept. Meeting February 03, 2026

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

Duration: 52 minsAttendeesSigrid 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: Reduce the number of a11y issues (37 open issues as per today) Find new team...

JCM Kickoff meeting for the February issue

By Anja de Crom on 2026-02-03 15:54 in Community Magazine Team

Attendees: Anja de Crom, Claudia Weber-Lenck, Herman Peeren, Serge Billon, Viviana Menzel, Brian Teeman, Dan Atrill, Emmanuel Lemor What did we talk about This was our usual chat meeting to collect ideas and find out what everyone's going to write for the February issue. Every month I'm amazed and humbled by the things our authors come up with. Again we have a good number of great ideas in the issue plan now. The meeting lasted a little under an hour. Want to join a JCM...

Notes meeting 1/26/26

By Olivier Buisard on 2026-02-03 04:46 in Joomla! Enhancement Development Team

Present: Herman, Benjamin, Shirielle, Olivier Objective: Joomla Health Checker, PBF and GSoC updates. Item discussed: What are your team’s key goals for this year? - organize and prioritize the projects across the coding teams to provide clarity and who is responsible (use Github project) - creation of coding teams (small group of individuals who work on one or more items and report back to EDT on progress) - provide a 'fence' to developers (be a place where they can seek...

Joomla Bugsquad Meeting - Feb 2th, 2026

By Martin Kopp on 2026-02-02 21:21 in Bug Squad

Attendees: Hannes, Emmanuel, Martin (Teamlead) - Duration: 75 minutes - Discussed issue tracker, worked through 2 issues on the agenda. Emmanuel talked about FOSDEM, Thank you. Next Meeting: Feb 23rd, 2026 20:00 CET 19:00 UTC

Community Sites Team Meeting - January 2026

By Carlos Cámara on 2026-01-29 15:06 in Community Sites Development

The team met over two days (1 hour each) to discuss leadership and site updates. Carlos Cámara shared his plan to run for Operations DC while ensuring a smooth leadership transition. Key updates: the new documentation site faces accessibility and template issues, the old site is being secured from bots, and the Volunteers Portal is migrating to Joomla! 6.0.2. The Magazine site awaits Joomla! 6 compatibility, while the Joomla! 6 landing page is ready for an update and multilingual support. The...

Production Dept. Meeting January 20, 2026

By Christiane Maier-Stadtherr on 2026-01-27 13:38 in Production

Duration: 38 minsAttendeesSigrid Gramlinger, Christiane Maier-Stadtherr, David Jardin, Herman Peeren, Gary Barclay, Heiko Lübbe, Llewellyn van der Merwe, Martin Kopp,Martina Scholz, Olivier Buisard, Philip Walton, Richard Fath, Robert Deutz, Stefan Wendhausen, Viviana Menzel Bug Squad Team (Martin Kopp) Meeting held 12.1.26 - 3 participants CMS Maintenance Team (Robert Deutz)This is my last Production Department meeting after 10+ years hanging here around.New Team Lead Election...

Notes meeting 1/12/26

By Olivier Buisard on 2026-01-20 00:34 in Joomla! Enhancement Development Team

Present: Shivam, Martin, Herman, Phil, Benjamin, Shirielle, Olivier Objective: Joomla Helath Checker, PBF and GSoC updates. Item discussed: Google Summer of Code: January 19 submissions, one week for decisions meet students before onboarding to limit AI test tasks Mattermost as invite-only testing apptitude, not only the code https://community.joomla.org/gsoc/2026/ Health Checker: meet with 6.1 Release Manager to determine possibility for inclusion into the release PBF:...