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Announcement en-GB User Interface Text Working Group
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I am pleased to announce the following with Brian Teeman leading this overdue and needed core en-GB standardisation.
The PLT have accepted the proposal to review and standardise all the en-GB language strings in the core of Joomla based on the style guide that you can see here (until it gets a permanent home).
Abstract
- The official language of Joomla is en-GB and yet the actual strings we use have been created, over 10 years, many by people who are not native en-GB speakers.
- Create a style guide to standardise the correct usage of en-GB and assist anyone writing language strings for Joomla.
- A secondary aim is that this style guide can be used as a basis for translation teams.
- Traditional rules of grammar do not always apply to the web. See Break Grammar Rules on Websites for Clarity
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Joomla Extension Developers, what resources do you need for the final release of 2.5
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Dear Joomla Extension Developers
We need your to help spread the word!
We are currently planning the Joomla 2.5 marketing campaign. Joomla 2.5.28 is scheduled to be released on December 10th. As part of our campaign, we are asking extension developers to write a blog (of any length) that explains 2.5.28 will be the final release of the 2.5 series. Additionally, it would be helpful for your users if you provide documentation on how to upgrade your extension within your blog post.
Here is documentation by Jennifer Gress, Tom Hutchison, and Connie Lippert to help people plan for upgrading docs.joomla.org/Why_Migrate. The marketing team is preparing an information pack that explains 2.5.28.
Our goal for this campaign is to work together to help the community find the resources they need for successful upgrade planning. If you have suggestions on how else we can assist in this transition, please post here.
Call for Production Leadership Team Nominations
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The Joomla! Production Leadership Team (PLT) is responsible for leading and coordinating the development of the Joomla CMS and Framework. This includes releasing new versions, fixing bugs, adding new features, and creating documentation and translations.
We are looking for your nominations for new PLT members. We acknowledge that the greater worldwide Joomla community can help us a lot in this election process, and make us aware of potential candidates we might otherwise overlook.
Although the nomination form is available permanently to continuously gather suggestions, a number of PLT members are stepping down this month and we are additionally looking to fill some gaps in our skills base. Consequently we are blogging this reminder that we need your nominations because we are actively looking to recruit new PLT members soon.
You can nominate yourself or someone else at any time. If you nominate someone else, please ask them first if they are interested and have the time available.
Release Postmortem
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While we strive to be as efficient as possible, there are times when things don't go smoothly, causing stress and headaches for our user base and the community members who test and prepare our releases. This last week has been an example of some rough times for our releases, and though no single person or group is to blame for any of the issues that we've experienced with these last releases, they do highlight areas where our teams and workflows can improve.
Easing the contribution process
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The Joomla PLT is happy to announce that contributions to the CMS will no longer require a JoomlaCode tracker item. We’re now ready to start using our brand new issue tracker issues.joomla.org.
New bug reports and feature requests should be created either at issues.joomla.org or directly on GitHub. Code contributions made via GitHub will automatically create the issue for you (no more duplication required). All outstanding JoomlaCode items will require a corresponding GitHub issue.
Due to technical limitations of the JoomlaCode software, we cannot disable the JoomlaCode tracker for just the Joomla CMS project. We ask that contributors stop using it immediately to create new issues or comment on existing issues. We will make all the necessary process changes to reinforce that.