GSoC 2022 : A11y-Plugin - Week 4

By Private Profile 89b3f023 on 2022-07-10 09:14 in GSoC 2022 : A11y-Plugin

Tasks completed in the week: Started the week by reading about the importance of Dyslexic Font. Implemented the open dyslexic font feature in the a11y panel. Selected 'OpenDyslexic' font to be used as the dyslexic font in the a11y plugin. Downloaded the different variants( OpenDyslexic monochrome & OpenDyslexic Regular) from the Github repo of OpenDyslexic. Integrated the fonts with the a11y external script. Wrote CSS to enhance the open dyslexic font. Updated the reading velocity...

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Operations Department Meeting Minutes - 2022-06-28

By Llewellyn van der Merwe on 2022-07-04 20:07 in Operations

Participants: Harald Leithner (Director), Llewellyn van der Merwe (Assistant DC), Jaz Parkyn (JED TL), Mark Fleeson (JED ATL) , Olaf Offick (Forum TL), Claire Mandville (TL TL) Absent: Luca Marzo (JCM ATL & TL ATL & P ATL), Sander Potjer (JVP TL), Roland Dalmulder (JVP ATL), Sebastien Lapoux (Showcase TL), Toivo Talikka (Forum ATL), Soren Jensen (Capital TL), Donata Kalnenaite (Privacy TL) Department Coordinator: Budget has been approved Joomla.org Template will be a cooperation...

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Production Dept. Meeting MINUTES - June 28, 2022

By Llewellyn van der Merwe on 2022-07-04 19:32 in Production

Production Dept. Meeting MINUTES - June  28, 2022 Participants: Benjamin Trenkle (Department Coordinator), David Jardin (Team Leader), Harald Leithner (Release Lead 5.0), Roland Dalmulder (Release Lead 4.2), Franciska Perisa (Release Lead 4.2), Viviana Menzel (Assistant Team Leader), Llewellyn van der Merwe (Assistant Department Coordinator), Jacob Waisner (Team Leader), Niels Braczek (Team Leader), Sigrid Gramlinger (Team Leader), Shivam Rajput (Team Leader), Robert Deutz (Team Leader),...

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GSoC 2022 : Guided Tour - Week 3

By Private Profile 1d75cfc2 on 2022-07-03 21:02 in GSoC 2022 : Guided-Tour

Tasks completed in the week: Debugged the code and solved the problem of the steps URL which was not working earlier. Conducted G-Meets with Mentor - Freyam where I helped him to set up the Guided Tour project for Joomla! so that he can get started with the project and start testing it. Attached the Steps URL in tour.addStep by using  url: obj[mainID].steps[index].url and got the steps URL for each step of the tour. Used session storage and URL re-direction through the...

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GSoC 2022 : A11y-Plugin - Week 3

By Private Profile 89b3f023 on 2022-07-03 08:35 in GSoC 2022 : A11y-Plugin

Tasks completed in the week: Started the week by reading the documentation of speechSynthesis Web API. Spent time on understanding the existing implementation of text to speech in the a11y external script. Developed the initial design of speech velocity feature. Implemeted the speech velocity so that the user can choose the desired the reading velocity from : Normal, fast and slow. Tested the speech velocity for cross browser compatibility. Improved the announcements made by other...

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GSoC 2022 : Guided Tour - Week 2

By Private Profile 1d75cfc2 on 2022-06-26 18:50 in GSoC 2022 : Guided-Tour

Tasks completed in the week: Fixed “Save2new” in the step section for each tour. Fixed the “Save as Copy” button in the step section which was causing the error. Got an understanding of the Script file for Guided Tour. Debugged the script file code. Fixed one major problem in the code, which was that every time when the tour was started it was ending at step 1 of every tour and the complete button was showing up (even if we have 10 steps in that).  Created a working single-page...

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GSoC 2022 : A11y_Plugin - Week 2

By Private Profile 89b3f023 on 2022-06-26 08:15 in GSoC 2022 : A11y-Plugin

Tasks completed in the week: Spent time on understanding the code base of the external a11y libray to learn how it alters properties like Text Size, Word Spacing, etc. Understood the how the session persistence being maintained using cache. Implemented the Increase/Decrease Line Height Feature Exteneded the reset functionality for Line Height. Maintained session persistence for line height. Made line height work for textEml mode and textPixel mode. Prioritized the task for next...

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CMS Release Team Meeting June 22, 2022

By Sigrid Gramlinger on 2022-06-24 19:34 in CMS Release Team

Wed, June 22, 2022, UTC 18:00 DETAILSDuration:  60 Minutes Participants:Jenn, Sigrid, Claudia, Christiane, Benjamin, Franciska NOTES   Team Role We will stay with the team role definition as stated on the volunteers portal: This team is responsible for coordinating all aspects of Joomla! CMS releases. Also, one main task is to test CMS release candidates extensively on complex testing environments. (https://volunteers.joomla.org/teams/cms-release-team) Post release...

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Operations Department Meeting Minutes - 2022-05-31

By Harald Leithner on 2022-06-23 15:25 in Operations

Participants: Harald Leithner (Director), Llewellyn van der Merwe (Assistant) , Olaf Offick (Forum TL), Sander Potjer (JVP TL) Apologies:  Roland Dalmulder (JVP ATL), , Sebastien Lapoux (Showcase TL), Toivo Talikka (Forum ATL), Luca Marzo (JCM ATL), Jaz Parkyn (JED TL)  Department Coordinator: The prize of the 20i.com FOSS AWARDS 2022 is a 6 Core VPS which we got today. We will use it as part of our CI System. Magazine Article All tasks on Jenkins have been completely replaced...

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Operations Department Meeting Minutes - 2022-05-03

By Harald Leithner on 2022-06-23 15:18 in Operations

Participants: Harald Leithner (Director), Jaz Parkyn (JED TL), Olaf Offick (Forum TL) Apologies:  Sander Potjer (JVP TL), Luca Marzo (JCM ATL), Roland Dalmulder (JVP ATL), Sebastien Lapoux (Showcase TL), Toivo Talikka (Forum ATL), Claire Mandville (TL)  Department Coordinator: Migration from 1Password to Vaultwarden completed Joomla.org Template makes small steps Extensions Directory team: Team meeting was on 29th April, followed by JED4 development meeting on 1st May,...

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Production Dept. Meeting MINUTES - June 14, 2022

By Llewellyn van der Merwe on 2022-06-22 10:35 in Production

Production Dept. Meeting MINUTES - June  14, 2022 Participants: Benjamin Trenkle (Department Coordinator), David Jardin (Team Leader), Hannes Papenberg (Team Leader), Harald Leithner (Release Lead 5.0), Christiane Maier-Stadtherr (Team Leader), Viviana Menzel (Assistant Team Leader), Sigrid Gramlinger (Team Leader), Shivam Rajput (Team Leader), Philip Walton (Marketing Liaison), Robert Deutz (Team Leader) Absent: Mike Brandner (Team Leader), Roland Dalmulder (Release Lead 4.2),...

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JED Team Meeting - 9th June 2022

By Jaz Parkyn on 2022-06-20 14:19 in Extensions Directory Team

Participants: Jaz Parkyn, Mark Fleeson, Oh Martin, Jeroen Moolenschot, Dénes Székely, Denis Ryabov Team leadership: Mark Fleeson has been chosen as the new assistant team leader Extensions & tickets Additional team meeting scheduled to cover training on processing reported reviews tickets The team reviewed a couple of difficult reports of extensions an came to a conclusion A note will be added to the ticket submission page to help reduce the number of queries that JED receives...

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Meeting Minutes - June 16, 2022

By Todd Woodward on 2022-06-20 13:05 in Joomla User Groups Team

Scheduled duration: 1 hourParticipants: Todd Woodward, Abdulkadir Shehu, Laura Gordon, Ahmad Moussa, Davide Messia Reviewed Goals for 2022 In Progress - Regularly Scheduled (quarterly) JUG Organiser Meetings In Progress - Develop process for JUG approval Determine base requirements for the JUG to be approved Develop an approval checklist In Progress - Set processes for ticket response. Develop updated documentation, workflow, and possible video instructions for...

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GSoC 2022 : Guided Tour - Week 1

By Private Profile 1d75cfc2 on 2022-06-19 20:38 in GSoC 2022 : Guided-Tour

Discussions Done in the week: Discussed the Guided Tour project priorities and deliverables. Discussed the timeline and scope of the project. Discussed project repository setup. Meeting held on G-Meet with Administrator Benjamin and  Mentors Jatin and Freyam. Tasks completed in the week: Done with the setup of the project on my local machine. Included Joomla Coding Standards (PHP CodeSniffer) in the project. Worked on creating the base structure for the guided tour by taking...

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GSoC 2022 : A11y-Plugin - Week 1

By Private Profile 89b3f023 on 2022-06-19 07:26 in GSoC 2022 : A11y-Plugin

Discussions Done in the week: Had first meeting with my mentors. Discussed about the flow of the project. Mentors told me about the external library which joomla uses for a11y plugin. Discussed about the set up of the project repo. Tasks completed in the week: Done with setting up the external library locally. Refactored the code of accessibility.php to support change position feature. Implemented the Change Position feature for a11y icon from the site backend. Prioritized the...

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JCM Meeting Report - June 14th, 2022

By Anja de Crom on 2022-06-14 14:18 in Community Magazine Team

Attendees:  Phil Walton, Patrick Jackson, Sandra Decoux, Luca MarzoApologies:  Hans van der Meer Discussion outline ATL announcement: Luca has agreed to stay on as Assistant Team Leader for the Magazine Team (Anja has been elected Team Leader) June issue: we have 11 articles this month. Well done everyone! The Talk: Anja is planning to have a chat with every team member to see how you’re doing and if you’re still happy with what you do for the JCM, just so we know where we...

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Meeting Notes - June 08, 2022

By Robert Deutz on 2022-06-13 16:59 in CMS Maintenance Team

Scheduled duration: 60min Duration: 60min Participants: Allon Moritz (Team Member), Christiane Maier-Stadtherr (Team Member), Fedir Zinchuk (Team Member), Franciska Perisa (Release Lead 4.2), Harald Leithner (Release Lead 5.0), Richard Fath (Team Member), Robert Deutz (Team Leader), Roland Dalmulder (Release Lead 4.2)   Absent: Benjamin Trenkle (Release Lead 4.1), David Jardin (Security Team Liaison), George Wilson (Team Member), Hannes Papenberg (Automated Testing Team Liaison),...

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Production Dept. Meeting MINUTES - May 31, 2022

By Llewellyn van der Merwe on 2022-06-09 10:11 in Production

Production Dept. Meeting MINUTES - May  31, 2022 Participants: David Jardin (Team Leader), Hannes Papenberg (Team Leader), Harald Leithner (Release Lead 5.0), Franciska Perisa (Release Lead 4.2), Llewellyn van der Merwe (Assistant Department Coordinator), Niels Braczek (Team Leader), Sigrid Gramlinger (Team Leader), Shivam Rajput (Team Leader), Philip Walton (Marketing Liaison), Robert Deutz (Team Leader), Tobias Zulauf (Release Lead 3.10) Absent: Roland Dalmulder (Release Lead 4.2),...

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Meeting Notes - May 18, 2022

By Robert Deutz on 2022-06-09 07:27 in CMS Maintenance Team

Scheduled duration: 60min Duration: 15min Participants: Benjamin Trenkle (Release Lead 4.1), Christiane Maier-Stadtherr (Team Member), Harald Leithner (Release Lead 5.0), Richard Fath (Team Member), Robert Deutz (Team Leader), Franciska Perisa (Release Lead 4.2)   Absent: Allon Moritz (Team Member), Hannes Papenberg (Automated Testing Team Liaison), Viviana Menzel (Team Member), Tobias Zulauf (Release Lead 3.10), Roland Dalmulder (Release Lead 4.2), David Jardin (Security Team...

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CMS Release Team Meeting June 1, 2022

By Sigrid Gramlinger on 2022-06-04 14:26 in CMS Release Team

Wed, June 1, 2022, UTC 18:00 DETAILSDuration:  45 Minutes Participants:Harald, Benjamin, Sigrid, Niels, Franciska, Jenn, Roland, Phil, Christiane NOTES Automated Testing Cypress is a lean, viable replacement for Codeception+Selenium. The only known drawback is that tests are written in JavaScript instead of PHP (which should not really be a problem). Hannes Papenberg and Robert Deutz are looking closer into it. There is a good chance that we will switch to Cypress. Release...

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CMS Release Team Meeting May 11, 2022

By Sigrid Gramlinger on 2022-06-04 14:24 in CMS Release Team

Wed, May 11, 2022, UTC 18:00 DETAILSDuration:  75 Minutes Participants:Phil, Niels, Christiane, Stefan, Claudia, Benjamin, Tobias, Rahel, Jenn, Sigrid Release recap How did the release go? Issue with menu ordering - still to be discussed Server full (Benjamin documentation, Tobias removes) Release date planning There will be no release on Aug 2, 2022, but continue on August 16th with normal release cycle.   Team Goals Stefan and Sigrid checked the goals. We...

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Joomla Bug Squad Meeting - May 20, 2022

By Private Profile f4e9297a on 2022-06-02 21:20 in Bug Squad

Date: May 20, 2022 Time: 18:00 CEST (16:00 UTC) Total time of meeting: 00:35 Attendees: Jacob Waisner, Christiane Maier-Stadtherr, Richard Fath, Tuan Pham Ngoc, Troy Hall Current Status 107 PRs merged over the past month 47 new PRs remain opened over the past month 73 issues closed over the past month 38 new Issues over the past month. Upcoming releases: Bug fix release 4.1.4 and 4.2.0 Alpha 3 are currently being prepared, 4.1.4 RC 1 is out for testing. Team...

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OSM, Inc. - Full Board Meeting - May 19, 2022

By Luca Marzo on 2022-06-02 15:53 in Board of Directors

Open Source Matters, Inc.Full Board of Directors and Officers Meeting Date: May 19, 2022Time: 17:00 UTCTotal time of meeting: 1 hour 10 minutes Attendees: Nicola Galgano (Vice President), Luca Marzo (Secretary), Benjamin Trenkle (Director), Philip Walton (Director), Harald Leithner (Director). Apologies: Robert Deutz (President), Radek Suski (Treasurer). Proxies: - Discussion outline Production Department Preparation for a GSoD sprint is in progress. Joomla! 4.1.4 is...

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OSM, Inc. - Full Board Meeting - May 05, 2022

By Luca Marzo on 2022-06-02 15:47 in Board of Directors

Open Source Matters, Inc.Full Board of Directors and Officers Meeting Date: May 05, 2022Time: 17:00 UTCTotal time of meeting: 1 hour 40 minutes Attendees: Robert Deutz (President), Nicola Galgano (Vice President), Luca Marzo (Secretary), Benjamin Trenkle (Director), Harald Leithner (Director), Philip Walton (Director). Apologies: Radek Suski (Treasurer). Proxies: - Discussion outline Production Department The Documentation Team is working on archiving all the old documentation....

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OSM, Inc. - Full Board Meeting - April 21, 2022

By Luca Marzo on 2022-06-02 15:45 in Board of Directors

Open Source Matters, Inc.Full Board of Directors and Officers Meeting Date: April 07, 2022Time: 17:00 UTCTotal time of meeting: 55 minutes Attendees: Robert Deutz (President), Nicola Galgano (Vice President), Luca Marzo (Secretary), Benjamin Trenkle (Director), Harald Leithner (Director), Philip Walton (Director). Apologies: Radek Suski (Treasurer) Proxies: Luca Marzo served as proxy for Radek Suski. Discussion outline Production Department Nothing to report, teams are very busy...

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OSM, Inc. - Full Board Meeting - April 07, 2022

By Luca Marzo on 2022-06-02 15:44 in Board of Directors

Open Source Matters, Inc.Full Board of Directors and Officers Meeting Date: April 07, 2022Time: 17:00 UTCTotal time of meeting: 1 hour 00 minutes Attendees: Robert Deutz (President), Nicola Galgano (Vice President), Luca Marzo (Secretary), Radek Suski (Treasurer), Benjamin Trenkle (Director), David Opati Aswani (Director), Harald Leithner (Director), Philip Walton (Director). Apologies: - Proxies: - Discussion outline Treasurer Radek shared the bank balances as of...

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Joomla Accessibility Team - Meeting May 24, 2022

By Viviana Menzel on 2022-05-25 05:34 in Joomla Accessibility and Usability Team

Attendees: Christiane Maier-Stadtherr (Team Leader), Viviana Menzel (Assistant Team Leader), Benjamin Trenkle (Release Lead J 4.1),  Hans Kuijpers (Member), Julian White (Member), Crystal Dionysopoulos (Member) It was a written meeting so that all members can read the discussion afterwards. Crystal will help in setting up documentation.A lower-level goal that would help is starting to document the a11y features in Joomla, even if it's in the current JDOC setup. It's not ideal, but at...

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Production Dept. Meeting MINUTES - May 17, 2022

By Llewellyn van der Merwe on 2022-05-20 10:00 in Production

Production Dept. Meeting MINUTES - May  17, 2022 Participants: Benjamin Trenkle (Department Coordinator), David Jardin (Team Leader), Hannes Papenberg (Team Leader), Harald Leithner (Release Lead 5.0), Roland Dalmulder (Release Lead 4.2), Christiane Maier-Stadtherr (Team Leader), Viviana Menzel (Assistant Team Leader), Llewellyn van der Merwe (Assistant Department Coordinator), Sigrid Gramlinger (Team Leader), Shivam Rajput (Team Leader), Philip Walton (Marketing Liaison), Robert Deutz...

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Marketing Minutes May 10th, 2022

By Louise Hawkins on 2022-05-16 09:14 in Marketing Team

Marketing Minutes May 10th, 2022 Tuesday 10th May 2022 UTC 17:00 BST 18.00 DETAILSDuration:1 HourParticipants: Phil Walton, Louise Hawkins, Tom van der Laan.Apologies: Andrew Barber, Mark Fleeson MEETING NOTES1. Review of the last meetings minutes:2. Event Merchandise – Banner and stickers have been delivered. Just the redirect to be set up on the joomla.org/banner URL. So far Tom has been able to provide the best pricing for event merchandise and following the meeting has offered co-worker...

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JED Team Meeting - 29th April 2022

By Jaz Parkyn on 2022-05-13 18:46 in Extensions Directory Team

Participants: Jaz Parkyn, Claire Mandville, Dénes Székely, Denis RyabovApologies: Jeroen Moolenschot, Oh Martin, Mark Fleeson Team Leadership: The team elected Jaz as team leader following an anonymous vote An assistant team leader will soon be chosen Jaz asked the team to consider any budgetary requests they might have for the upcoming financial year Extensions & Tickets: The team reviewed a couple of difficult cases An item will be added to the listing checklist to give...

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