Content: all django CMS work groups

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Become part of the django CMS project and help us shape the future of content management. 

Work groups are the heart of our open-source project. A work group is a temporary or permanent group of Community Heros who work together on a single or several tasks (feature requests, bugs or iimprovements). 

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Workgroup: django CMS version 4.0 
Help Needed

Help release the fastest and smartest django CMS version ever!

django CMS 4 is the next major release. It includes versioning, better ways of managing static content (example: footer or menu), better ways of managing URLs and linking to django CMS URLs and more. The release is already quite progressed, but help is always needed.

Milestones 

  2021 Q1 2021 Q2 2021 Q3 2021 Q4
website template        
alias clean up        
URL manager        
bootstrap4 upgrade      
django applications        
Release        
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Team

  • Leader - Andrew Aikman
  • Contributor - Victor
  • Contributor - Narender
  • Contributor - Francesco 
  • Contributor - Paul
  • Contributor - You? 
Workgroup: Github Pull Request & Issue Review (User Support) 
Help Needed Permanent work group

Help out at a key point of the django CMS project and contribute immensely to the success of the django CMS open source project.

Reviewing PRs and issues from other contributors according to PR submission guidelines. 

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Team

  • Leader - Iacopo 
  • Contributor - Mark
  • Contributor - Francesco
  • Contributor - Anatolly
  • Contributor - You? 
Workgroup: CKEditor 5 Integration

Bring the cutting edge rich text editor to Django CMS community!

At the moment for rich text editing we're using a heavily outdated CKEditor 4, which has a singiifcant amount of UX issues and bugs. We're moving to ES6-based CKEditor framework.

Milestones 

  2021 Q1 2021 Q2 2021 Q3 2021 Q4
PoC      
Beta release    
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Workgroup: django CMS documentation
Help Needed

Create and improve django CMS documentation, empowering beginners and advanced users to better understand and resolve issues with django CMS. 

Review documentation. Agree on and document a naming convention for plugin models and classes, General documentation on best practices.

 

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Workgroup: Multisite 
New work group Help Needed

Research multisite features of other frameworks and possible ways of implementing that in django-cms 

Document multisite strategy with Divio, The old way to do multisite was to use a multisite plugin and have all sites in one single instance. Divio has a new, improved way that scales better, by sharing one single database across multiple instances. Each instance uses the same code repository. The site id is controlled via an env var in every instance. This new approach does not require any multisite addons / code, which reduces complexity a lot. 

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Workgroup: Travis CI / Github Action Migration
Task completed

Implement Github Actions to improve test performance. 

The goal of this temporary work group is to replace Travis CI with Github Action. The team is currently working on migrating a main project, and in the process creating a migration guide so that volunteers can then use the guide to migrate other projects from the django CMS Github organisation. 

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Workgroup: Django 3.2 compatibility
New work group Help Needed

Help us to make django CMS compatible with Django 3.2 

This group is newly formed. Current status: Preparing for a django-cms package that is django 3.2 compatible.

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Workgroup: Marketing
Not started yet Help Needed

This group is ought to coordinate and execute the marketing efforts of the django CMS Association. The group has not been formed yet. If you want to kick start this group, please sign up and receive assistance from the core contributor team. 

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Resources

  • Tech Brief (TBD)
  • Slack channel (TBD)

Team

  • Contributor - You?
Workgroup: django-cms.org website relaunch
Not started yet Help Needed

The current website is old-fashioned and outdated and could use a new design. A fresh website design can create new momentum and drive overall success of the project. If you want to kick start this group, please sign up and receive assistance from the core contributor team. 

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Resources

  • Tech Brief (TBD)
  • Slack channel (TBD)

Team

  • Contributor - You?
Workgroup: aldryn-forms improvements
Not started yet Help Needed

Drop code that we don't need anymore (eg forms without email notificaiton), fix email notifcation UX where user needs to save form before he can add an email notification, allow to send email notification to the user on the Form plugin, not EmailField plugin. Don't allow to break pages by adding Field plugins outside of a Form plugin. Migrate to djangocms-forms

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  • Tech Brief (TBD)
  • Slack channel (TBD)

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  • Contributor - You?
Workgroup: djangocms video improvements
Not started yet Help Needed

Avoid "video plugin inside video plugin", simplify UI eg by creatin a YouTube plugin and Video plugin (for mp4 and etc files)

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  • Tech Brief (TBD)
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  • Contributor - You?
Workgroup: boostrap4 / responsive grid improvements
Not started yet Help Needed

Improve UX for responsiveness (bootstrap4 rows / columns), Create a UI widget that has an (even) better interface to control responsiveness, replacing the boostrap4 grid numbers input (i.e. 6 for 'md'). And move some fields to a hidden advanced section.

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Resources

  • Tech Brief (TBD)
  • Slack channel (TBD)

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  • Contributor - You?
Workgroup: Language Independent Plugins
Not started yet Help Needed

For some type of plugins, like images, we don't want the plugin to be linked to a specific language. Indeed when a user changes an image in a placeholder, s.he does not expect to have to change it on all languages... The idea is to make the "language" field on the Plugin model not required. And when this field is set to None (cross language plugin), the same instance of plugin is used for all languages.

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Resources

  • Tech Brief (TBD)
  • Slack channel (TBD)

Team

  • Contributor - You?
Workgroup: headless-mode
Not started yet Help Needed

Unlimited number of frontends; Can be combined with different software languages; More flexible design of the frontend; Continuity through decoupling Dynamic data

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  • Tech Brief (TBD)
  • Slack channel (TBD)

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  • Contributor - You?
Workgroup: Aldryn SSO
Not started yet Help Needed

User cannot log in locally anymore after login in via SSO password gets removed when user logs in via SSO

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  • Tech Brief (TBD)
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  • Contributor - You?
Workgroup: Structure bar scroll bug
Not started yet Help Needed

Site front-end breaks when previewing published and resizing window When after publishing a page with the structure mode open on desktop, front-end interferes with scroll after window resize (scroll is locked).

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  • Tech Brief (TBD)
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  • Contributor - You?
Workgroup: djangocms-internal-search
Not started yet Help Needed

Currently requires django-haystack that has been left behind recent Elastic Search changes.

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  • Tech Brief (TBD)
  • Slack channel (TBD)

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  • Contributor - You?
Workgroup: djangocms-modules improvements
Not started yet Help Needed

add sub pages for each section. If there are many modules, the page becomes unresponsive, and difficult to manage.

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  • Tech Brief (TBD)
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  • Contributor - You?
Workgroup: Make buggy plugin editable
Not started yet Help Needed

If a plugin on a page has an error the entire page is uneditable.

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  • Tech Brief (TBD)
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  • Contributor - You?
Workgroup: djangocms-transfer evolution
Not started yet Help Needed

extend djangocms-transfer to export/import CMS page trees, we also have an existing proposal: https://gitlab.com/what-digital/djangocms-transfer

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  • Tech Brief (TBD)
  • Slack channel (TBD)

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  • Contributor - You?
Workgroup: fix cms top bar responsiveness
Not started yet Help Needed

top CMS bar is accidentially switched to mobile sometimes and doesnt switch back to desktop breakpoint even if the window is wide again

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  • Tech Brief (TBD)
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  • Contributor - You?
Workgroup: Make pages admin scalable
Not started yet Help Needed

When we drill down to see a page's children, all children are fetched. If a page has several thousands of pages, it can take a long time or even fail. Ideally, we should paginate sub pages and provide a search box. Other Ux are possible.

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  • Tech Brief (TBD)
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  • Contributor - You?
Workgroup: djangocms-blog - improve admin
Not started yet Help Needed

Follow up on the admin panel simplification that's currently in progress, add a button that clarifies that the user needs to open the page in order to edit the content of a blog

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  • Tech Brief (TBD)
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  • Contributor - You?
Workgroup: introduce site argument
Not started yet Help Needed

To present the content of several sites under a unique umbrella

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Resources

  • Tech Brief (TBD)
  • Slack channel (TBD)

Team

  • Contributor - You?

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