Reports

CMS Release Team Meeting August 21, 2024

By Benjamin Trenkle on 2024-08-21 20:40 in CMS Release Team

Participants: Rachel Walraven; Jen Gress, Shirielle Williams, Emmanuel Lemor, Martin Kopp, Peter Martin, Phil Walton, Benjamin Trenkle, Robert Deutz Joomla! 4.4 Joomla! 4.4.7 released Joomla! 5.1 Joomla! 5.1.3 released Joomla! 5.2 Joomla! 5.2.0 Beta 1 released - Feature Freeze

Notes meeting 08/12/24

By Olivier Buisard on 2024-08-20 14:27 in Joomla! Enhancement Development Team

Date: Monday, August 12, 2024 Present: Phil, Benjamin, Christiane, Martina, Emmanuel, Shirielle, Olivier, Gary (guest) Objective: Feedback on the team's process and feature survey results. Item discussed: what skillset we bring to the Joomla project constraints of creating working groups (less flexible) notion of doc/feature buddy bring back team work, how do we support each other? how do we make sure features are not abandonned, how to get people involved for...

Production Dept. Meeting August 06, 2024

By Christiane Maier-Stadtherr on 2024-08-10 08:53 in Production

Duration: 5 minutes Attendees Sigrid Gramlinger (DC), Benjamnin Trenkle, Christiane Maier-Stadtherr, David Jardin, Dieter Ziller, Martin Kopp, Olivier Buisard Production Department Coordinator (Sigrid Gramlinger) Philip Walton provided release notes for Joomla releases for many years, but steps back now. We are looking for someone to take over this task. Release notes are responsibility of marketing and need knowledge of the product but the target group are users who are informed about...

Joomla Accessibility and Usability Team - written meeting June / July 2024

By Viviana Menzel on 2024-08-10 08:48 in Joomla Accessibility and Usability Team

Participants Christiane Maier-Stadtherr, Viviana Menzel (Team leads), Carlos Camara, Hans Kuijpers, Stefan Wajda Team description The former usability and user experience team has been partially integrated into the accessibility team. Therefore the team description has been changed: https://volunteers.joomla.org/teams/accessibility-team Subteam The team is small, a sub team is not necessary, it has been archived. Goal Our main goal is to make Joomla (the CMS and the websites of the...

Notes meeting 07/29/24

By Olivier Buisard on 2024-08-06 03:06 in Joomla! Enhancement Development Team

Date: Monday, July 29, 2024 Present: Phil, Benjamin, Christiane, Martina, Emmanuel, Shirielle, Olivier Objective: Follow-up of on-going discussions. Item discussed: on-going PRs (templates/mail templates enhancements) sub-teams updates (most archived) survey progress update (presented by Phil) - focus on user experience EDT process (presented by Shirielle) - discussed suggestions and minor changes Action items: feedback and revisions on the EDT process document post...

Marketing Minutes July 30, 2024

By Mike Kritzer on 2024-08-06 01:39 in Marketing Team

Date: Tuesday, 30th July 2024, 10:20- 12:18 GMT-07:00 Attendees: Angelika Prox-Dampha, Maria Skampoura, Mike Kritzer Next steps brainstorming sessions to better define the target audience develop a strategy to attract media attention to Joomla events, emphasizing the importance of inviting media personnel to cover events to increase visibility. suggested that involving Crystal in future meetings would be beneficial to align on ongoing projects and provide guidance....

CMS Release Team Meeting July 31, 2024

By Benjamin Trenkle on 2024-07-31 20:37 in CMS Release Team

Participants: Jenn, Benjamin Trenkle, Emmanuel Lemor, Christiane, Rachel Walraven, Martin Kopp, Martina Scholz Joomla! 5.2 Meeting scheduled for August 8th with the GT team to begin creating the What’s New Tour Other Business Guided Tours PR testing underway. Includes visual and functional improvements as well as a polished autostart feature.

Production Dept. Meeting July 23, 2024

By Christiane Maier-Stadtherr on 2024-07-31 14:13 in Production

Duration: 60 minutes Attendees Sigrid Gramlinger (DC), Benjamnin Trenkle, Christiane Maier-Stadtherr, Dieter Ziller, Hannes Papenberg, Llewellyn van der Merwe, Harald Leithner, Martin Kopp, Martina Scholz, Olivier Buisard, Philip Walton, Robert Deutz Production Department Coordinator (Sigrid Gramlinger) All three motions passed. PROD2024/005, PROD2024/006, PROD2024/007 Joomla! Enhancement Development Team (Olivier Buisard) Working on a structure for managing enhancement Planning...

Production Dept. Meeting July 09, 2024

By Christiane Maier-Stadtherr on 2024-07-31 08:31 in Production

Duration: 20 minutes Attendees Sigrid Gramlinger (DC), Dieter Ziller, Hannes Papenberg, Harald Leithner, Llewellyn van der Merwe, Martin Kopp, Martina Scholz, Peter Martin, Philip Walton, Robert Deutz Joomla! Enhancement Development Team (Olivier Buisard) The team is starting to focus on addressing user requests to have a better/more modern template - without breaking accessibility! Joomla! Accessibility and Usability Team (Christiane Maier-Stadtherr) Christiane, assisted by...

Notes meeting 07/15/24

By Olivier Buisard on 2024-07-25 20:10 in Joomla! Enhancement Development Team

Date: Monday, July 15, 2024 Present: Martin, Christiane, Phil, Harald, SD, Olivier Objective: Follow-up of on-going discussions. Item discussed: Schema.org enhancements (auto-filling of fields). Color schemes for Cassiopeia. Template framework to enable support for different frameworks (not only Bootstrap). How to make it easier to get developers to help and have development completed? Action items: Contact sub-teams and archive inactive ones. Provide process document to help...

Marketing Minutes July 16th, 2024

By Mike Kritzer on 2024-07-21 17:58 in Marketing Team

Date: Tuesday, 16th July 2024, 10:06- 10:55 GMT-07:00Attendees: Angelika Prox-Dampha, Maria Skampoura, Mike Kritzer, Outreach DC OSM, Tom van der Laan, Asad Mithu Next steps Angelika proposed seeking assistance from companies providing services related to cost implications for better ideas on how to address the concerns raised. Angelika shared her experience with hosting packages and suggested exploring alternatives to address issues related to unexpected costs and outdated...

Notes meeting 07/01/24

By Olivier Buisard on 2024-07-14 00:01 in Joomla! Enhancement Development Team

Date: Monday, July 1, 2024 Present: Dieter, Martin, Benjamin, Christiane, Martina, Emmanuel, SD, Olivier, Phil Objective: List the items/projects found in social media, GitHub... and sort out the main issues/features that come up from them. Item discussed: We ended up focusing on what kind of improvements could be brought to the frontend template and the possibility to introduce a new template (for 6.0?). We cannot really add many new parameters to the current template when it...

OSM, Inc. - Full Board Meeting - July 11, 2024

By Luca Marzo on 2024-07-11 18:24 in Board of Directors

Open Source Matters, Inc.Full Board of Directors and Officers Meeting Date: July 11, 2024Time: 17:00 UTCTotal time of meeting: 1 hour 20 minutes Attendees: Philip Walton (Vice President), Luca Marzo (Secretary), Nadja Lamisch (Treasurer), Sigrid Gramlinger (Director), Louise Hawkins (Director), Carlos Camara (Director). Apologies: Crystal Dionysopoulos (President), Proxies: Luca Marzo served as proxy for Crystal Dionysopoulos. Discussion outline Treasurer Nadja shared the report...

CMS Release Team Meeting July 10, 2024

By Benjamin Trenkle on 2024-07-10 20:35 in CMS Release Team

Participants: Rachel Walraven, Peter Martin, Martin Kopp, Shirielle “SD” Williams, Benjamin Trenkle Emmanuel Lemor Joomla! 4.4 Successful 4.4.6 released Joomla! 5.1 Successful 5.1.2 released Other Business Guided Tours - the GT team plans to meet with release managers to demo the Autostart and the What’s New tour next week. During the meeting the team will demo the Autostart. As part of the release process the idea is that the Release Managers meet with the GT team and the GT team will...

Production Dept. Meeting June 25, 2024

By Christiane Maier-Stadtherr on 2024-07-10 18:54 in Production

Duration: 30 minutes Attendees Sigrid Gramlinger (DC), Benjamnin Trenkle, Christiane Maier-Stadtherr, David Jardin, Dieter Ziller, Martin Kopp, Martina Scholz, Olivier Buisard, Peter Martin, Philip Walton, Robert Deutz, Viviana Menzel Joomla! Accessibility and Usability Team (Christiane Maier-Stadtherr) We will take WCAG 2.2 as goal for 6.0. Challenge will be the drag and drop of articles for ordering. Security Strike Team (David Jardin) GPG key rotated as part of the...

Marketing Minutes July 2nd, 2024

By Mike Kritzer on 2024-07-02 05:59 in Marketing Team

Date: Tuesday, 2nd July 2024, 10:04- 11:10 GMT-07:00 Attendees: Alireza Javaherian, Angelika Prox-Dampha, Louise Hawkins, Mike Kritzer, Tom van der Laan, Maria Skampoura Next steps The team plans to organize help with upgrading Joomla 3 resources using Google Sheets, consider including non-English resources on the website, and encourage community contributions. Suggested making it a task for everyone to review the questions and provide feedback. Suggestion to showcase...

OSM, Inc. - Full Board Meeting - June 27, 2024

By Luca Marzo on 2024-06-27 18:06 in Board of Directors

Open Source Matters, Inc.Full Board of Directors and Officers Meeting Date: June 27, 2024Time: 18:00 UTCTotal time of meeting: 1 hour 05 minutes Attendees: Crystal Dionysopoulos (President), Philip Walton (Vice President), Luca Marzo (Secretary), Louise Hawkins (Director), Carlos Camara (Director). Apologies: Nadja Lamisch (Treasurer), Sigrid Gramlinger (Director). Proxies: Luca Marzo for Nadja Lamisch. Discussion outline Treasurer A Sponsor payment for June is missing. Need to...

Production Dept. Meeting June 11, 2024

By Christiane Maier-Stadtherr on 2024-06-25 15:57 in Production

Duration: 53 minutes Attendees Sigrid Gramlinger (DC), Christiane Maier-Stadtherr, David Jardin, Dieter Ziller,Harald Leithner, Llewellyn van der Merwe,Marc Dechèvre, Martin Kopp, Martina Scholz, Olivier Buisard, Philip Walton, Viviana Menzel Production Department Coordinator (Sigrid Gramlinger) We have 25 Codium.ai Licences from our new partner codium.ai Joomla! Enhancement Development Team (Olivier Buisard) Meeting scheduled on Monday, June 17 15:00 UTC Joomla!...

Notes meeting 06/17/24

By Olivier Buisard on 2024-06-24 20:41 in Joomla! Enhancement Development Team

Date: Monday, June 17, 2024 Present: Phil, Martin, Benjamin, Christiane, Martina, Emmanuel, SD, Olivier Objective: Continued: determine what projects to follow up with/ where to find them. Item discussed: Before moving forward with survey, team identified several avenues for gathering existing community feedback to review and determine an initial list of enhancements to shepherd through Action items: Members took upon themselves to survey key areas (social media, Mattermost,...

Team Notes

By Robert Deutz on 2024-06-19 14:02 in CMS Maintenance Team

If you’ve read the last meeting notes you might noticed that we had planned bi-weekly meetings. We ended up with weekly meetings every Wednesday at 7 CEST. It is always one hour and we are discussing issues or PR. The first meeting was at 26th July 2023 and we have done at the moment more than 40 meetings.When we come to a conclusion what we are doing with an issue or PR we usually comment on the issue/PR to let the author know what are the next steps, if they are any. That’s the reason we...

CMS Release Team Meeting June 19, 2024

By Benjamin Trenkle on 2024-06-19 11:48 in CMS Release Team

Participants: Martin Kopp, Benjamin Trenkle, Harald Leithner, Philip Walton, SD Williams, Martina Scholz, Marc Dechèvre, Christiane Maier-Stadtherr Nothing to report.

Marketing Minutes June 18th, 2024

By Mike Kritzer on 2024-06-18 06:53 in Marketing Team

Date: Tuesday, 18th June 2024, 10:15- 11:01 GMT-07:00 Attendees: Alireza Javaherian, Emmanuel Lemor, Louise Hawkins, Maria Skampoura, Mike Kritzer, Montego Blitz, Tom van der Laan, Asad Mithu Meeting Summary The meeting began with a focus on Survey Strategy and Implementation, where Louise Hawkins allocated budget for social media and marketing tools, including survey software. The discussion then shifted to Survey Target Audience Identification, highlighting...

OSM, Inc. - Full Board Meeting - June 13, 2024

By Luca Marzo on 2024-06-13 17:59 in Board of Directors

Open Source Matters, Inc.Full Board of Directors and Officers Meeting Date: June 13, 2024Time: 18:00 UTCTotal time of meeting: 1 hour 00 minutes Attendees: Philip Walton (Vice President), Luca Marzo (Secretary), Sigrid Gramlinger (Director), Louise Hawkins (Director). Apologies: Crystal Dionysopoulos (President) on leave of absence. Nadja Lamisch (Treasurer), Carlos Camara (Director). Proxies: Sigrid Gramlinger served as proxy for Nadja Lamisch.Luca Marzo served as proxy for Carlos...

Production Dept. Meeting May 28, 2024

By Christiane Maier-Stadtherr on 2024-06-09 17:49 in Production

Duration: 35 minutes. Attendees: Sigrid Gramlinger (DC), Benjamin Trenkle, Christiane Maier-Stadtherr, David Jardin, Dieter Ziller, Hannes Papenbaerg, Harald Leithner, Marc Dechèvre, Martin Kopp, Martina Scholz, Olivier Buisard, Peter Martin, Philip Walton, Viviana Menzel Joomla! Accessibility and Usability Team (Christiane Maier-Stadtherr) New name of the team https://volunteers.joomla.org/teams/accessibility-team Security Strike Team (David Jardin) New...

SA&S Minutes 2024-06-03

By Harald Leithner on 2024-06-04 09:14 in Software Architecture & Strategy Team

Attendees: Niels Braczek, Llewellyn van der Merwe, Guido De Gobbis, Herman Peeren, Harald Leithner, Hannes Papenberg Deprecations Main topic of this meeting was the discussion about the JFactory::getDbo(); replacement pull request by Hannes Papenberg. Conclustion was that we don't want to replace calls with a bad example of replacing core triggered deprecations. This will have several side effects. Like providing bad practice for 3rd party developers. Depending...

Marketing Minutes June 4th, 2024

By Mike Kritzer on 2024-06-04 05:42 in Marketing Team

Date: Tuesday, 4th June 2024, 10:13- 10:53 GMT-07:00 Attendees: Maria Skampoura, Mike Kritzer, Philip Walton, Angelika Prox-Dampha Meeting Summary The meeting began with a discussion on Product Repairability and Website Improvement, focusing on enhancing the website with dynamic content. The decision was made to upgrade website pages without redesigning navigation. Next steps included adding a new panel for common questions and creating explanatory videos. The meeting...

Notes meeting 05/28/24

By Olivier Buisard on 2024-06-02 09:41 in Joomla! Enhancement Development Team

Date: Tuesday, May 28, 2024 Present: Olivier, Shirielle, Emmanuel, Phil (Release day for most missing members) Objective: Determine what projects to follow up with/ where to find them. Item discussed: need to review sub-teams on the volunteer portal (how to archive old ones?) need to check the status of the present Working Groups (contact people and see if those groups are active) need to communicate with the marketing and maintenance teams (regular invites to talk about user...

Production Dept. Meeting May 14, 2024

By Christiane Maier-Stadtherr on 2024-05-29 20:20 in Production

Duration: 35 minutes. Attendees: Sigrid Gramlinger (DC), Benjamin Trenkle, Christiane Maier-Stadtherr,Dieter Ziller, Harald Leithner, Lewellyn van der Merwe, Marc Dechèvre, Martin Kopp, Olivier Buisard, Peter Martin, Philip Walton, Robert Deutz, Viviana Menzel Production Department Coordinator (Sigrid Gramlinger) Update from Board: “Paid contributions” need more time The board discussed merging JXT into the Accessibility team. Joomla! Enhancement Development Team (Olivier...

Team Mission Discussion

By Olivier Buisard on 2024-05-18 16:22 in Joomla! Enhancement Development Team

Date: Tuesday, May 14, 2024 Present: Olivier, Shirielle, Martina, Martin, Shivam, Emmanuel, Phil, Benjamin, Harald Objective: Define the mission of our team and establish key priorities. Key aspects of the team: - Sort out Joomla projects Ensure projects are not lost or abandoned. Evaluate whether projects need improvement or should be discontinued. - Guide Release managers Propose features that are ready or nearly ready for release. Assist release managers in making...

Kickoff meeting

By Allon Moritz on 2024-05-17 19:35 in Automated Testing Team

Date: May 17, 2024Time: 18:00 UTCTotal time of meeting: 1 hour 40 minutes Attendees: Heiko Lübbe, Nicola Galgano, Allon Moritz Report The new team met the first time in an online meeting. Allon greets everybody, thanks them and highlights the importance of the automated system tests. It is a sustainable way to ensure a stable core. Nicola is introducing himself. Heiko is introducing himself. Allon presents the strategy to slowly but steady increase the amount of system tests with an...