At the recent weekly dev meeting (March 19, 2026) a plan was presented to use the following several weekly meetings to focus on the top wish list items. Some of the items at the top of the list have been there for awhile and are more complex to address so having some focused time to examine them may help the community to move forward on them.
Take a look at the last meeting explaining the plan and the issues to be discussed. https://youtu.be/8GLZSqyANhM?t=1080
The five priority items presented are:
- Automatic Updates
- Back End Theme
- Recipes
- AI Readiness
- Front End Theme
The idea is to focus efforts on these possibly two each week.
The weekly meeting on March 26, 2026 will focus on the longstanding wish for "Automatic Updates" and if time permits also focus on a new back end theme to replace Seven and possibly moving the Gin theme into core although this will take some work to address the fact that Gin uses SASS for compiled CSS that is not supported in core and will either need to be added or replace with native modern CSS.
If you are not able to attend the virtual meetings you can add any comments and questions you have in this forum thread so they can be discussed at the meeting.
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I'd suggest module search to get discussed as a possible top priority.
Our module search page on backdropcms.org doesn't do a good job.
Neither does the module search on admin/modules/install.
There are so many modules available now, for almost every problem there's a solution. But a hidden one, hard to discover.
It's common sense to rather search on GitHub, because our own search lacks of functionality. It doesn't have to be that hard.
There must be ways to improve that, but very likely it's not trivial, as changes are needed in core, on backdropcms.org, possibly in the Project module, possibly even in modules info files...
This is a really good idea. I nearly always search on GitHub if I'm not sure of the name.
That said, there is still room for improvement in GitHub as many repos have a useless description and don't optimise the description (especially the first 240 characters) for discoverability. This was a topic in a User Group (and previously in Backdrop Live) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4YaYxkAeIA
That would improve GitHub search, but I think
.infofiles and theREADME.mdfiles are the key places to make that information available to Backdrop and tob.orgbut both those places need better ways of filtering for and searching for such information.