Motions adopted by the Departments and Teams
Production
Full Department
#PROD2019/001 - Involve Release Leaders in the leadership of the Production Department. (per 19/04/18)
Proposed by Harald Leithner
Motion Approved with 7 in favor, against and abstained
#PROD2019/002 - Remove the helpurl for French help in J3 (per 19/05/02)
Proposed by Harald Leithner
Motion Approved with 11 in favor, 1 against and abstained
#PROD2019/003 - Force all newly merged PRs in Joomla 4 to use prepared statements. (per 19/05/02)
Proposed by Harald Leithner
Motion Approved with 12 in favor, against and abstained
#PROD2019/004 - Enforce Two Factors Authentication in the Joomla Organization on GitHub. (per 19/05/14)
Proposed by David Jardin
Motion Approved with 8 in favor, 2 against and abstained
#PROD2019/005 - Change minimum version requirements for all browsers to n-2 and drop support for Internet Explorer. (per 19/05/16)
Proposed by Harald Leithner
Motion Approved with 7 in favor, 1 against and 0 abstained
#PROD2019/006 - MySQL Requirements for Joomla 4:<br>Option A = Keep MySQL 5.5 (EOL)<br>Option B = Upgrade to MySQL 5.6 and keep it.<br>Option C = MySQL 5.6 and upgrade it with a Minor. (per 19/05/16)
Proposed by Harald Leithner
Motion Approved with 4 (B), 6 (C) in favor, against and abstained
#PROD2019/007 - Change minimum version requirements for PHP to version 7.2 for Joomla 4.0. (per 19/06/10)
Proposed by Harald Leithner
Motion Approved with 7 in favor, against and abstained
#PROD2019/008 - Make the "CMS Maintenance Team" an Official Team with voting rights (per 19/07/04)
Proposed by Harald Leithner
Motion Approved with 7 in favor, 2 against and 2 abstained
#PROD2019/009 - Support Mentors' work at Google Summer of Code. (per 19/07/24)
Proposed by Puneet Kala
Motion Rejected with 0 in favor, 3 against and 0 abstained
#PROD2019/010 - Backend Templates (per 19/09/23)
Proposed by Robert Deutz
Motion Rejected with 6 in favor, 4 against and abstained
#PROD2019/011 - Patchtester Maintainer (per 19/10/07)
Proposed by Harald Leithner
Motion Approved with 10 in favor, 1 against and abstained
#PROD2019/012 - Change minimum version requirements for PHP to version 7.2.5 for Joomla 4.0. (per 19/11/23)
Proposed by George Wilson
Motion Approved with 10 in favor, 0 against and 0 abstained
#PROD2019/013 - Make Tobias Zulauf Release Lead for Joomla 3.10 (per 19/12/12)
Proposed by Robert Deutz
Motion Approved with 10 in favor, 0 against and 0 abstained
#PROD2020/001 - JHTML Namespace (per 20/03/15)
Proposed by George Wilson
Motion Approved with 10 in favor, against and 2 abstained
#PROD2020/002a - Remove New MVC (per 20/03/15)
Proposed by George Wilson
Motion Approved with 8 in favor, 4 against and abstained
#PROD2020/002b - Namespace New MVC (per 20/03/15)
Proposed by George Wilson
Motion Approved with 8 in favor, 4 against and abstained
#PROD2020/021 - Allow progressive feature's (per 20/04/03)
Proposed by Tobias Zulauf, seconded by Marco Dings
Motion PASSED with 12 in favor, 1 against and 0 abstained
#PROD2020/022 - Solve InputFilter “magically” returning arrays by adding an additional parameter (per 20/04/14)
Proposed by David Jardin, seconded by Marco Dings
Motion UNDECIDED, NEED MORE VOTES with 4 in favor, 4 against and 2 abstained
#PROD2020/023 - Policy for Full Path Disclosure (FPD) (per 20/04/22)
Proposed by David Jardin, seconded by Marco Dings
Motion PASSED with 11 in favor, 0 against and 1 abstained
#PROD2020/024 - There shall be no indiscriminate closing of Issues or Pull Requests (per 20/04/22)
Proposed by Marco Dings, seconded by NIels Braczek
Motion UNDECIDED, NEED MORE VOTES with 6 in favor, 4 against and 3 abstained
#PROD2020/025 - Minimum requirements for PHP and Databases in Joomla!4 (per 20/04/23) (per 20/04/23)
Proposed by George Wilson, seconded by Marco Dings
Motion PASSED with 6 in favor, 2 against and 4 abstained
#PROD2020/026 - Minimum requirements for Webservers in Joomla!4 (per 20/04/23) (per 20/04/23)
Proposed by George Wilson, seconded by Marco Dings
Motion PASSED with 11 in favor, 0 against and 2 abstained
#PROD2020/027 - Rebase all feature pull request against 4.1-dev (per 20/06/15)
Proposed by Harald Leithner, seconded by Benjamin Trenkle
Motion REJECTED, NOT ENOUGH VOTES with 0 in favor, 0 against and 0 abstained
#PROD2020/028 - Specifications for J4.1 (per 20/06/15)
Proposed by Benjamin Trenkle, seconded by Marco Dings
Motion REJECTED, NOT ENOUGH VOTES with 0 in favor, 0 against and 0 abstained
#PROD2020/029 - Do NOT move custom Joomla codestyle to PSR 12 (per 20/08/12)
Proposed by Hannes Papenberg, seconded by Marco Dings
Motion PASSED with 8 in favor, 0 against and 7 abstained
#PROD2020/030 - Create a joomla-backports github org that is going to hold the repos for backports we do. (per 20/10/08)
Proposed by Tobias Zulauf, seconded by Marco Dings
Motion PASSED with 9 in favor, 0 against and 6 abstained
#PROD2020/031 - Appoint Benjamin Trenkle as release lead for joomla 4.1 (per 20/06/10)
Proposed by Harald Leithner, seconded by Robert Deutz
Motion PASSED with 11 in favor, 0 against and 4 abstained
#PROD2020/032 - RFC for RFC (per 20/11/06)
Proposed by NIels Braczek, seconded by Marco Dings
Motion PASSED with 8 in favor, 1 against and 1 abstained
#PROD2020/033 - Support FTP layer in Joomla!4 (per 20/11/04)
Proposed by Marco Dings, seconded by Marco Dings
Motion UNDECIDED, NEED MORE VOTES with 4 in favor, 4 against and 2 abstained
#PROD2020/034 - Limit usage of 3rd party services in core (per 20/11/04)
Proposed by Harald Leithner, seconded by Marco Dings
Motion UNDECIDED, NEED MORE VOTES with 6 in favor, 4 against and 1 abstained
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Operations
Full Department
#2020/OPS/001 - Webmasters Team - No monthly meetings, but monthly reports.
Proposed by Wilco Alsemgeest, seconded by Radek Suski
Motion passed with one abstain (Karen)
#2020/OPS/002 - Webmasters Team - Feedback collection by mail and surveys with deadline of at least 1 week.
Proposed by Wilco Alsemgeest, seconded by Radek Suski
Motion passed with one abstain (Karen)
#2020/OPS/003 - Webmasters Team - All decisions to be done which involves all sites, infrastructure, work methods and thus basically everything not related to just one website, must be done by motion.
Proposed by Wilco Alsemgeest, seconded by Radek Suski
Motion passed with one abstain (Karen)
#2020/OPS/004 - Allow exception for the Volunteers Portal team to provide quarterly reports instead of each month due to the specific nature of the team.
Proposed by Radek Suski, seconded by Jaz Parkyn
Motion passed unanimously.
#2020/OPS/005 - All Template Directory Working Group assets must be backed up and made available to the Extensions Directory Team. The Template Directory Working Group will be disbanded and any volunteer willing to work on the Templates part of JED4 is welcomed by the Extensions Directory team.
Proposed by, Wilco Alsemgeest / Seconded by, Jaz Parkyn
Motion passed unanimously.
#2020/OPS/006 - All Joomla websites within our EcoSystem will always run on GPL licensed (open source) components, modules and plugins. Additionally, if an extension has been custom built by our community, it will be publicly available in Joomla's GitHub repository. Unless otherwise decided / approved by the Board of Directors.
Proposed by, Wilco Alsemgeest / Seconded by, Luca Marzo
Motion passed unanimously.
#2020/OPS/007 - Cancel Operations Department motion 2020/OPS/006 in favour of OSM Motion 2021/004. The board motion makes the department motion obsolete.
Proposed by Wilco Alsemgeest, Seconded by Jaz Parkyn
Motion Passed Unanimously
Webmasters Team
#2020/WT/001 - Joomla Backup Configuration Policy.
Proposed by Wilco Alsemgeest
Motion passed by anonymous doodle.
#2020/WT/002 - Joomla Mail Configuration Policy.
Proposed by Wilco Alsemgeest
Motion passed by anonymous doodle.
#2020/WT/003 - Joomla User Configuration Policy.
Proposed by Wilco Alsemgeest
Motion passed by anonymous doodle.
#2020/WT/004 - Identity Access Management Policy.
Proposed by Wilco Alsemgeest
Motion passed by anonymous doodle.
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Programs
Full Department
No motions yet
Teams
Joomla Certification Program (JCP)
No motions yet
Volunteer Engagement Team (VET)
No motions yet
Educational Outreach Working Group (JEO)
JEO 2020/001: Define a new objective for the working group to create a proposal that covers defining educational resources with the aim of becoming an official Joomla program.
Proposed by: Todd Woodward, seconded by: Laura Gordon
Motion passed unanimously.
JEO 2020/002 (23/10/2020): To adopt the team’s mission as the following: “To be a hub of teaching tools and resources for those who want to teach and learn Joomla around the world.” and the tagline “Entice. Engage. Educate”
Proposed by Laura Gordon, seconded by Todd Woodward
Motion passed unanimously.
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