Bug Squad (JBS) Official
The purpose of the Joomla! Bug Squad is to reduce the number of bugs in Joomla.
Learn more about the Bug Squad on our portal!
- Website
- https://docs.joomla.org/Portal:Bug_Squad
- Department
- Production
- Date Started
- June 2008
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Martin Kopp
Switzerland
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Team Leader | Team Leader | Oct 2024 |
Benjamin Trenkle
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Member | Oct 2021 | |
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Charvi
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Member | Mar 2026 | |
Christiane Maier-Stadtherr
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Member | Nov 2024 | |
Emmanuel Lemor
France
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Member | Mar 2024 | |
Hannes Papenberg
Germany
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Member | Oct 2024 | |
Harald Leithner
Austria
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Member | Joomla 5.0 Release Manager | Oct 2017 |
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Nicola Galgano
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Member | Mar 2021 | |
Olivier Buisard
United States
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Member | Joomla 4.3 Release Lead | Jul 2022 |
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Member | Contributor | Oct 2017 |
Roland Dalmulder
Netherlands
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Member | Joomla 4.2 Release Lead | Jan 2022 |
| Joomler | Position | Role | Date Started | Date Ended |
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George Wilson
United Kingdom
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Member | Nov 2013 | Nov 2025 | |
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Martin Kopp
Switzerland
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Member | Joomla 4.4 Release Manager | Oct 2022 | Oct 2024 |
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Hannes Papenberg
Germany
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Team Leader | Team Leader | Feb 2023 | Oct 2024 |
Troy Hall
United States
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Member | Nov 2010 | Sep 2024 | |
Rick Spaan
Netherlands
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Member | Oct 2021 | Sep 2024 | |
Franciska Eichert
Germany
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Member | Joomla 4.2 Release Lead | Jan 2022 | Sep 2024 |
Viviana Menzel
Germany
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Assistant Team Leader | Assistant Team Leader | Feb 2023 | Jul 2024 |
Richard Fath
Germany
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Member | May 2019 | Jul 2024 | |
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Tuan Pham Ngoc
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Member | Mar 2021 | Jul 2024 | |
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Member | Oct 2021 | Jul 2024 | |
Shirielle (SD) Williams
United States
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Member | Joomla 4.3 Release Lead | Jul 2022 | Jul 2024 |
Tobias Zulauf
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Member | Jan 2020 | May 2024 | |
Brian Teeman
United Kingdom
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Member | Nov 2014 | Sep 2023 | |
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Member | Feb 2023 | May 2023 | |
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Team Leader | Team Leader | Mar 2021 | Feb 2023 |
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Christiane Maier-Stadtherr
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Member | Jan 2020 | Aug 2022 | |
Luca Racchetti
Italy
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Contributor | Contributor | Mar 2022 | Jul 2022 |
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Luca Racchetti
Italy
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Member | Dec 2021 | Mar 2022 | |
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Luca Racchetti
Italy
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Member | Nov 2014 | May 2021 | |
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Member | Assistant Team Leader | Jan 2020 | Mar 2021 |
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Nicola Galgano
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Team Leader | Team Leader | Apr 2019 | Mar 2021 |
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Contributor | Feb 2017 | Jan 2020 | |
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Member | Apr 2019 | Nov 2019 | |
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Tuan Pham Ngoc
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Member | Contributor | Jan 2018 | Jun 2019 |
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Roland Dalmulder
Netherlands
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Member | Contributor | Nov 2014 | Jun 2019 |
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Member | Contributor | Jan 2018 | Jun 2019 |
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Member | Contributor | May 2010 | Jun 2019 |
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Peter Martin
Netherlands
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Member | Contributor | Jan 2014 | Jun 2019 |
Niels Braczek
Germany
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Member | Apr 2019 | Jun 2019 | |
Hervé Boinnard
Ireland
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Contributor | Nov 2017 | Jun 2019 | |
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Dimitris Grammatikogiannis
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Member | Contributor | Jul 2014 | Jun 2019 |
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Member | Dec 2014 | Apr 2019 | |
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Assistant Team Leader | Nov 2013 | Apr 2019 | |
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Member | Mar 2016 | Apr 2019 | |
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Contributor | Jan 2017 | Apr 2019 | |
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Constantin Romankiewicz
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Member | Sep 2012 | Apr 2019 | |
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Niels Braczek
Germany
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Team Leader | Nov 2014 | Apr 2019 | |
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Nicola Galgano
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Contributor | Mar 2018 | Apr 2019 | |
Robert Deutz
Germany
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Member | Nov 2014 | Feb 2019 | |
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Member | Sep 2015 | Apr 2018 | |
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Nicola Galgano
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Member | Nov 2014 | Mar 2018 | |
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Tuan Pham Ngoc
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Contributor | Jan 2018 | Jan 2018 | |
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Hervé Boinnard
Ireland
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Member | Aug 2010 | Nov 2017 | |
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Harald Leithner
Austria
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Member | Nov 2014 | Sep 2017 | |
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Viktor Vogel
Germany
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Member | Nov 2014 | Nov 2016 | |
Radek Suski
Germany
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Member | Nov 2014 | Nov 2016 | |
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Jaz Parkyn
United Kingdom
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Member | Dec 2014 | Nov 2016 | |
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David Jardin
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Member | Nov 2014 | Nov 2016 | |
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Ruth Cheesley
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Member | Nov 2014 | Nov 2016 | |
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Member | May 2015 | Nov 2016 | |
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Member | Mar 2013 | Mar 2016 | |
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Tobias Zulauf
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Team Leader | Mar 2013 | Dec 2015 | |
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Member | Nov 2014 | Nov 2015 |
Assistant Team Leader
Contributor
The role involves the following: Having Javascript ECMAscript 6 (ES6) expertise Some free time & passion to help contribute Proposing, create and testing Pull Requests (PRs) Giving feedback on issues Help squash bugs!
More informationJoomla 4.2 Release Lead
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Team Leader
Joomla Bugsquad Meeting - Feb 23rd, 2026
By Martin Kopp on 2026-02-23 20:26 in Bug Squad
Attendees: Hannes, Christiane, Brian, Alikon, Krishna Ghandi, 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
Read more: Joomla Bugsquad Meeting - Feb 23rd, 2026
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
Read more: Joomla Bugsquad Meeting - Feb 2th, 2026
Joomla Bugsquad Meeting - Jan 12th, 2026
By Martin Kopp on 2026-01-12 20:05 in Bug Squad
Happy new year! Attendees: Nicola (Alikon), Emmanuel, Martin (Teamlead) - Duration: 55 minutes - Worked through 2 issues on the agenda. Closed 1. Tested and discussed improvement on one. Thank you. Next Meeting: Feb 2nd, 2026 20:00 CET 19:00 UTC
Read more: Joomla Bugsquad Meeting - Jan 12th, 2026
Joomla Bugsquad Meeting - Dec 22th, 2025
By Martin Kopp on 2025-12-23 00:38 in Bug Squad
Attendees: Brian, Hannes, Martina, Martin (Teamlead) - Duration: 55 minutes - Worked through 4 issues on the agenda. Closed 1. Discussed list of features in the Issue Cleanup Project. Thank you. Next Meeting: Jan 12th, 2026 20:00 CET 19:00 UTC
Read more: Joomla Bugsquad Meeting - Dec 22th, 2025
Joomla Bugsquad Meeting - Dec 1th, 2025
By Martin Kopp on 2025-12-01 20:31 in Bug Squad
Attendees: Christiane, Emmanuel, Martin (Teamlead) - Duration: 35 minutes - Worked through 1 issue on the agenda. May be valid with greater consequences Thank you. Next Meeting: Dec 22th, 2025 20:00 CET 19:00 UTC
Read more: Joomla Bugsquad Meeting - Dec 1th, 2025
Bug Squad Meeting at Joomla Day D-A-CH
By Martin Kopp on 2025-11-14 17:11 in Bug Squad
Attendees: Patrick. Denise, Christoph, Christof, Richard, Christian, Nadja, Allon, Martin (Teamlead) - Duration: 60 minutes - Worked through 6 issues on the agenda. Closed 4 - changed 2 .Thank you. Next Meeting: Dec 1th, 2025 20:00 CET 19:00 UTC
Read more: Bug Squad Meeting at Joomla Day D-A-CH
Joomla Bugsquad Meeting - Nov 10th, 2025
By Martin Kopp on 2025-11-10 20:00 in Bug Squad
Attendees: Hannes, Emmanuel, Richard, Martin (Teamlead) - Duration: 60 minutes - Worked through 10 issues on the agenda. Closed 7 - 1 PR created. Thank you. Next Meeting: Dec 1th, 2025 20:00 CET 19:00 UTC
Read more: Joomla Bugsquad Meeting - Nov 10th, 2025
Joomla Bugsquad Meeting - Oct 20th, 2025
By Martin Kopp on 2025-10-20 19:50 in Bug Squad
Attendees: Brian, Hannes, Emmanuel, Martin (Teamlead) - Duration: 60 minutes - Worked through 8 issues. Closed 4 - 1 PR created. Thank you. Next Meeting: Nov 10th, 2025 20:00 CET 19:00 UTC
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Joomla Bugsquad Meeting - Sep 29th, 2025
By Martin Kopp on 2025-10-20 10:34 in Bug Squad
Attendees:Brian, Emmanuel, Martin (Teamlead) - Duration: 60 minutes - Worked through Backlog and Issue still relevant in Joomla Project "Issue Cleanup". Closed quite a few issues. Thank you. Next Meeting: Oct 18th, 2025 18:00 20:00 CEST 19:00 BST 18:00 UTC
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Joomla Bugsquad Meeting - September 8, 2025
By Martin Kopp on 2025-09-08 20:03 in Bug Squad
Attendees: Brian, Hannes, Emmanuel, Martin (Teamlead) - Duration: 60 minutes - Closed 21 Issues - discussed few other issues. Next Meeting: Sept 29th, 2025 18:00 20:00 CEST 19:00 BST 18:00 UTC
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Joomla Bugsquad Meeting - August 18, 2025
By Martin Kopp on 2025-08-19 09:22 in Bug Squad
Attendees: Emmanuel, Brian, Martin (Teamlead) - Duration: 30 minutes - Discussed few issues. Discussed need of developers for fixing bugs and not only testing. Next Meeting: Sept 8th, 2025 18:00 20:00 CEST 19:00 BST 18:00 UTC
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Joomla Bugsquad Meeting - July 28, 2025
By Martin Kopp on 2025-07-28 18:44 in Bug Squad
Attendees: Christiane, Emmanuel, Olivier, Martin (Teamlead) - Duration: 30 minutes - Holiday Edition with Greetings from Paris. Discussed 2 issues. Emphasis on using the Joomla Projects "Issue Cleanup" and "PR Cleanup" to have control over PRs/Issues already visited. Thank you. Next...
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Joomla Bugsquad Meeting - July 7, 2025
By Martin Kopp on 2025-07-07 19:04 in Bug Squad
Attendees: Brian, Emmanuel, Hannes, Martin (Teamlead) - Duration: 60 minutes - Closed 6 no further Action Taken Issues. Discussed a few other issues. Hannes informed us about the switch from Drone CI to Github Action. Keep an eye on the Issues Cleanup Project. Thank you. Next Meeting: July...
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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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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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Joomla Bugsquad Meeting - April, 28, 2025
By Martin Kopp on 2025-04-29 15:10 in Bug Squad
Attendees: Brian, Emmanuel, Martin (Teamlead) - Duration: 59 minutes - Discussed a few issues. We will try to close more issues. Discussed minimal PHP Version. No problem with PHP 8.3 as long as DB Version don't change. Aftermath: Instead of using a separate list, we will use...
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Joomla Bugsquad Meeting - March, 31, 2025
By Martin Kopp on 2025-04-01 16:20 in Bug Squad
Attendees: Brian, Emmanuel, Hannes, Martin (Teamlead) - Duration: 61 minutes - Discussed 5 PR/issues - talked about getting old, abandoned PRs out of the way of testers - Thanks to everyone participating and contributing.
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Joomla Bugsquad Meeting - March, 10, 2025
By Martin Kopp on 2025-03-10 20:41 in Bug Squad
Attendees: Brian, Christiane, Emmanuel, Nicola, Olivier, Martin (Teamlead) - Duration: 67 minutes - Discussed 7 PR/issues - talked about GSoC 2025 (not really business of the Bug Squad) - Thanks to everyone participating and contributing.
Read more: Joomla Bugsquad Meeting - March, 10, 2025
Joomla Bugsquad Meeting - February, 17, 2025
By Martin Kopp on 2025-02-17 20:14 in Bug Squad
Attendees: Brian, Christiane, Emmanuel, Nicola, Olivier, Martin (Teamlead) - Duration: 61 minutes- Talked about PBF, we will have 90 servers thanks to Olivier and Carlos. - Discussed the google sheet for PBF- need to have more easy testable PR's for 5.3.0- Martin will go through issues and...
Read more: Joomla Bugsquad Meeting - February, 17, 2025
Joomla Bugsquad Meeting - January, 27, 2025
By Martin Kopp on 2025-01-27 20:02 in Bug Squad
Attendees: Emmanuel, Nicola, Martin (Teamlead) - Duration: 59 minutes - Discussed 5 issues, 4 moved to next meething. closed 0, 499 Issues marked as bug, 749 in total. Thanks to the team for bringing the numbers down! Next Meeting: 2025-02-17 2000 CET 1900 UTC
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Joomla Bugsquad Meeting - January, 6, 2025
By Martin Kopp on 2025-01-06 20:07 in Bug Squad
Attendees: Rolf, Brian, Martin (Teamlead) - Duration: 55 minutes - Discussed 12 issues closed 6, 501 Issues marked as bug, 751 in total. Thanks to the team for bringing the numbers down! Next Meeting: 2025-01-20 2000 CET 1900 UTC
Read more: Joomla Bugsquad Meeting - January, 6, 2025
Joomla Bugsquad Meeting - December, 9, 2024
By Martin Kopp on 2024-12-09 20:02 in Bug Squad
Attendees: Rolf, Brian, Hannes, Emmanuel, Nicola, Martin (Teamlead) Duration: 50 minutes Discussed 4 issues 591 Issues marked as bug, 756 in total. Thanks to the team for bringing the numbers down! Next Meeting: 2025-01-06 2000 CET 1900 UTC
Read more: Joomla Bugsquad Meeting - December, 9, 2024
Joomla Bugsquad Meeting - November, 18, 2024
By Martin Kopp on 2024-11-18 21:36 in Bug Squad
Attendees: Rolf Dautrich, Brian Teeman, ChristianeMaier-Stadtherr, Hannes Papenberg, Martin Kopp (Teamlead) Duration: 65 minutes Discussed 15 issues, Closed 6, Relabeled 3 Next Meeting: 2024-12-09 2000 CET 1900 UTC
Read more: Joomla Bugsquad Meeting - November, 18, 2024
Joomla Bugsquad Meeting - October, 28, 2024
By Martin Kopp on 2024-11-05 13:51 in Bug Squad
Attendees: Emanuel Lemor, Brian Teeman, Hannes Papenberg, Martin Kopp (Teamlead) Duration: 45 minutes Items discussed: - Meeting schedule: Every three weeks on Mondays, 1900 UTC- Tasks of the Bug Squad- Issue Tracker Next Meeting: 2024-11-18 2000 CET 1900 UTC
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Joomla Bugsquad Meeting - January 17, 2024
By Hannes Papenberg on 2024-01-17 21:21 in Bug Squad
Date: January 17, 2024Time: 19:00 UTCTotal time of meeting: 30 minsAttendees: Richard Fath, Martin Kopp, Nicola Galgano, Hannes Papenberg After a longer pause of the monthly meetings, we started again and the first thing is that we will change the frequency of the meetings from once a month to...
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