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Joomla! 8 - Get involved

Written by: Production Department
Category: August
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You’ve probably  heard about the Joomla 8 sprint in the June edition of the magazine. With only 2 weeks left - the sprint will take place from September 4th to September 7th - we would like to update you about the plans.

First of all, we (the Production Department) would like to hear your ideas: what features will bring Joomla to the next level within the next 4 years?

But one moment, before you start sending us your ideas, we have one small request: we’re looking for commitment as well, so when you have an idea, we expect you to take a role in the developing process. Either by contributing project management, development, testing time or donating money to get the feature done.

So you can't just stand on the side and tell us what you think Joomla should do; we expect you to be involved.

Submit your ideas

The sprint

During the sprint we would like to have two online calls, one on Friday and one on Saturday to update the community about the things that are discussed at the Sprint. Also we would like to gather feedback from the community itself. The calls will be around 15:00 - 17:00 UTC. We’ll share the final times in our Joomla 8 Sprint Mattermost channel. So if you want to get involved, please join this channel.

About the author

Fascinated by the possibilities, Benjamin Trenkle has been a passionate Joomla! developer since Joomla! 1.0. Since then, he has taken on various roles within the Joomla! community. He serves as a mentor for the Google Summer of Code project and is a member of the Security Strike Team and the CMS Maintenance Team. After serving as Release Lead for Joomla! 4.1, he worked for one year as Production Department Coordinator before taking over leadership of the CMS Release Team in August 2022, where he supports the current and future release managers for Joomla!. Since 2026, he has been the team leader of the Maintenance Team. He has also been involved in implementing a wide range of Joomla! features, such as multilingual support in Joomla! 3, the workflow system for Joomla! 4, the Task Scheduler, and the schema.org implementation.

At the same time, he runs the company Wicked Software, which specializes in the development of Joomla! extensions. Their offerings include the “Wicked Team” component, which enables the management of records, employees, departments, roles, and lists directly within the Joomla! backend. In addition, he offers the development of custom extensions, maintenance, support and training, as well as consulting for multilingual websites, accessible websites, and complex Joomla! projects.

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