Strategic Initiatives

Initiatives are groups of people coming together to work on a particular area of focus.

Below are the current strategic initiatives for Mautic core, in alphabetical order.

Strategic initiatives are maintained by the Project Lead and are grounded in:

  • User insights - Initiatives that are based on what users of Mautic tell us is needed
  • Product vision - Initiatives that move us closer toward our vision for Mautic being the #1 choice for marketers
  • Market insights - Initiatives that are required for Mautic to remain competitive in the Marketing Automation world
  • Community discussion - Initiatives which have been discussed and validated in the Mautic community

1. Composer support

  • Allow Mautic to be managed via Composer
  • Easier installation and updating of Mautic and dependencies
  • Supports innovations like the Mautic Marketplace

Forum thread: https://forum.mautic.org/t/as-a-developer-i-want-to-be-able-to-apply-patches-and-upgrade-mautic-core-within-the-existing-composer-json/13750

Slack channel: #i-composer-support

Confluence page

2. Email & landing page builders

  • Develop more robust options for creating emails and landing pages
  • Provide more configuration and customisation options that are user-friendly

Forum thread:https://forum.mautic.org/t/new-email-builder/13796

Slack channel: #i-builders

Confluence page

3. Installation and upgrade experience

  • Documentation and tutorials
  • Pre-flight checks and warnings (similar to the Mautic 3 upgrade script)
  • Improve the GUI upgrade process

Forum thread: https://forum.mautic.org/t/include-database-version-test-in-installer/14872

Slack channel: #i-install-upgrade

Confluence page

4. Mautic Marketplace

  • Decoupling plugins from the core Mautic package
  • Implementing a simple, one-click process to install and uninstall plugins
  • Enable developers to easily provide updates and users to be notified when available

Forum thread: https://forum.mautic.org/t/mautic-marketplace/12108/8

Slack channel: #i-mautic-marketplace

Confluence page

5. Mautic Next Generation

  • Creating the next generation of Mautic

Forum thread: https://forum.mautic.org/t/mautic-next-generation-discussion/16900

Slack channel: #i-mautic-next-generation

Confluence page

6. Resource management

  • Allow the import/export of campaigns
  • Allow archiving resources no longer in use
  • Allowing full data sets in imports/exports

Forum thread: Centralised thread to be created, sub-task threads include:

  1. https://forum.mautic.org/t/campaign-templates-and-import-export/10734
  2. https://forum.mautic.org/t/archive-old-emails/10628
  3. https://forum.mautic.org/t/include-contact-stage-and-tags-in-imports-and-exports/10262

Slack channel: #i-resource-management

Confluence page