Introduction
Focus areas
Easing the transition to the New Backoffice (Bellissima)
Supporting people with their package creation
Maintain the official dotnet new umbraco-extension template
Helping people use packages
Helping people contribute to packages
Gathering feedback, promotion, celebrating contributions and content creation
Goals
To provide and maintain clear structure and development guidelines
To help and encourage new and returning package developers
To ensure a transparent and open collaboration and exchange with the HQ dev team and the other community teams
To improve the usability of Umbraco Marketplace
Main activities
Maintaining documentation on how to create a package, best practices and tackling common problems as a package developer
Organizing and holding bi-weekly follow-up online meetings - discuss the current state of the package repositories, potential improvements, and plans going forward (the meeting notes are publicly available)
Writing and publishing follow-up and updates blog posts on umbraco.com
Developing and maintaining open source tools that benefits package developers
Participating in hackathons, panel discussions, meetups, and conferences/festivals to assist new package developers, talk about the structure of the team, achievements, and future goals
Meet the team
Ronald Barendse
Umbraco HQ Steward
(Netherlands)
Lotte Pitcher
Umbraco HQ Asst. Steward
(United Kingdom)
Carl Sargunar
(United Kingdom)
Callum Whyte
Honorary Team Member
(Australia)
Dennis Heutinck
Honorary Team Member
(Finland)
Mario Lopez
Honorary Team Member
(Australia)
Get in touch
To ask questions, the #package-development Discord channel is the recommended platform to use.
For those who don’t have a Discord account, they can send an email to packages@umbraco.com
We also have a Package Team X/Twitter account!
Join the team
An online application will be open once a year, typically in autumn.
Ad hoc appointments can be made in case a team member chooses to step down.