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...

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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 Private Profile ed240b62 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 Private Profile dfd7af06 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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OSM, Inc. - Full Board Meeting - May 29, 2025

By Private Profile 24e538de on 2025-05-29 08:41 in Board of Directors

Open Source Matters, Inc.Full Board of Directors and Officers Meeting Date: May 29, 2025 Time: 17:00 UTC Total time of meeting:  65 minutes Attendees: President - Maria Skampoura Vice President - Emmanuel Lemor Treasurer - Nadja Lamisch Production DC - Sigrid Gramlinger Outreach DC - Angelika Prox Dampha Operations DC - Carlos Cámara Secretary - Phil Walton Apologies: None Proxies: None Discussion outline Treasurer  Updates/Proposed Topics: Informed D&O to...

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GSoC'25 - Joomla! AI Framework [Week Report #2]

By Charvi on 2025-05-28 09:28 in Google Summer of Code Joomla Team

Report Period: May 22-28, 2025 The second Joomla! AI Framework project discussion meet was successfully held on May 23, 2025. The meeting was attended by Benjamin Trenkle, Charvi Mehra and Shivam Rajput. Key Accomplishments May 22: Explored Drupal's AI modules and comprehensive architecture pattern: LLMs → Abstraction Layer → Orchestration Layer → UI Studied operation types for specific AI services Prepared detailed presentation on research findings May...

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Notes meeting 05/19/25

By Olivier Buisard on 2025-05-27 14:51 in Joomla! Enhancement Development Team

Present: Benjamin, Martin, Martina, Gary, Emmanuel, Shirielle, Olivier Objective:  Follow up on on-going projects Item discussed: Joomla Health Checker: time is running out, all actors part of other major projects, so hard to move forward fast. Some aspects of the project overlap with what is already being done to help users update to Joomla 6. How can we make the update checks part of the health checker? GSoC and Academy: all projects started, students/mentors to get to know each...

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Forum Meeting May 2025

By Olaf Offick on 2025-05-26 11:55 in Forum Team

Discussion about certain user's behaviour Discussion about anti spam mechanism. Discussion about recent spam wave  

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GSoC'25 - Workflow Enhancements [Week Report #2]

By Dileepkumar Adari on 2025-05-23 17:38 in Google Summer of Code Joomla Team

Report Period: May 19 - 23, 2025 The second Workflow Enhancements project review meeting was held on May 23, 2025. The meeting was attended by Benjamin Trenkle, Dileep Adari and Christiane Maier-Stadtherr. It was focused on the plan for the future work and the understanding of the codebase.  What has been done throughout the week May 19-20: Compared some of the existing workflow management system for inspiration and documented what are the best views from...

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JUG Team Meeting - May 22, 2025

By Todd Woodward on 2025-05-23 14:39 in Joomla User Groups Team

Attendees: Todd Woodward, Laura Gordon, Abdulkadir Shehu, Davide Messia, Angelika Prox Dampha, Emmanuel Lemor Meeting Summary:The meeting commenced with attendance confirmation and agenda setting, led by Todd, who referenced a document from the outreach department. The JUG leadership meeting was scheduled for July 8th at 11 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time. The team discussed the importance of engaging Joomla User Groups (JUGs) and the need for better communication and support. Concerns were raised...

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Production Dept. Meeting May 13, 2025

By Christiane Maier-Stadtherr on 2025-05-21 16:15 in Production

Duration: 22 minsAttendeesSigrid Gramlinger, Benjamin Trenkle, Chrisitane Maier-stadtherr, Harald Leithner, Herman Peeren, Heiko Lübbe, Martin Kopp, Olivier Buisard, Philip Walton, Richard Fath, Robert Deutz, Viviana Menzel Joomla! Enhancement Development Team (Olivier Buisard) Invited developers to the Health Checker meeting to present the project and discuss the underlying architecture needs. GSoC Kickoff meeting with mentors and students Joomla! Accessibility and Usability Team...

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GSoC'25 - Joomla! AI Framework [Week Report #1]

By Charvi on 2025-05-21 09:17 in Google Summer of Code Joomla Team

 Report Period: May 9-21, 2025 The first Joomla! AI Framework project kickoff session was successfully held on May 11, 2025. The meeting was attended by Benjamin Trenkle, Charvi Mehra, Eoin and Shivam Rajput. Key Accomplishments May 10: Participated in the Joomla! GSoC Kickoff Session Interacted with mentors, other GSoC contributors, and core team Assigned to prepare introduction article for Joomla Magazine (due May 13) May 11: Completed first draft of introduction...

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Joomla Bugsquad Meeting - May 19, 2025

By Martin Kopp on 2025-05-19 20:38 in Bug Squad

Attendees: Brian, Emmanuel, Hannes, Christiane, Martin (Teamlead) - Duration: 50 minutes - Discussed a few issues. Statistics Server Issue - see Meeting Agenda. Next Meeting:  June 16th, 2025 moved 1 week because of holiday (Pentecost)

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GSoC'25 - Workflow Enhancements [Week Report #1]

By Dileepkumar Adari on 2025-05-16 13:43 in Google Summer of Code Joomla Team

Report Period: May 12 - 16, 2025 The Workflow Enhancements project Kick-Off-Meeting was held on May 11, 2025 and the first review meet on May 16, 2025. The meeting was attended by Benjamin Trenkle, Dileep Adari and Christiane Maier-Stadtherr. It was focused on project onboarding, understanding the Joomla! workflow system, and setting up the development environment. Initial meetings helped clarify goals and responsibilities. What has been done throughout the week May...

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OSM, Inc. - Full Board Meeting - May 15, 2025

By Private Profile 24e538de on 2025-05-15 08:23 in Board of Directors

Open Source Matters, Inc. Full Board of Directors and Officers Meeting Date: May 15, 2025 Time: 17:00 UTC Duration: 1 hour 45 minutes Location: Google Meet Link Note: Carlos Cámara left at 18:30 UTC.  Participants President: Maria Skampoura Vice President: Emmanuel Lemor Treasurer: Nadja Lamisch Production DC: Sigrid Gramlinger Operations DC: Carlos Cámara Secretary: Phil Walton Proxies: Carlos Cámara proxy for Angelika Prox Apologies: Outreach DC: Angelika Prox...

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JCM Meeting Report, May 13th, 2025

By Anja de Crom on 2025-05-13 15:41 in Community Magazine Team

Attendees: Claudia Weber-Lenck, Anja de Crom, Herman Peeren, Christiane Maier-Stadtherr, Dan Atrill, Emmanuel Lemor What did we talk about This was a chat meeting to go over the content of the May issue. We have a good number of articles in the making. 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 if people can't join us during the meeting, they can...

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Notes meeting 05/05/25

By Olivier Buisard on 2025-05-13 15:32 in Joomla! Enhancement Development Team

Present: Benjamin, Martin, Martina, Emmanuel, Shirielle, Olivier Objective:  Follow up on on-going projects Item discussed: Joomla Health Checker: invite developers to the next meet so that we can present the project and get advice on underlying architecture. GSoC: projects approved, student and mentor details at https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2025/organizations/joomla. Thanks to Shivam and mentors! Next Meeting: 2025-05-19 1500 UTC

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Marketing Minutes May 6, 2025

By Mike Kritzer on 2025-05-10 00:55 in Marketing Team

  Date: Tuesday, 6th May 2025, 10:10-11:25 GMT-07:00     Attendees: Mike Kritzer, Outreach DC OSM, Tom van der Laan, Uta Schmitz-Esser, Emmanuel Lemor     Next steps   * Tom van der Laan confirmed his responsibility for preparing the images and articles for the Joomla releases on the website.   * It was agreed that the team will also prepare content for social media related to the Joomla releases.   * The next step involves scheduling social...

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Joomla! Welcomes GSoC 2025 Contributors

By Shivam Rajput on 2025-05-09 16:58 in Google Summer of Code Joomla Team

Joomla Selected for GSoC 2025! Joomla has been officially selected as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2025. This is an exciting opportunity to mentor talented contributors and advance key areas of the Joomla ecosystem. Welcome Session – Meet & Greet A successful welcome session was held with all selected contributors and mentors. Introductions between contributors and admins. Overview of project timelines and expectations Clarification of...

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