Development Working Group

The main responsibility of the Development Working Group is taking care of the development of the Joomla! application framework and the Joomla! Content Management System (CMS). Besides the development of the Joomla! codebase the development working group defines the Joomla! roadmap strategy, creating (architectural) designs for major and minor versions and of course take care of bug and security fixes in maintenance versions.

The development working group holds two teams: the Development Team and the so called Bug Squad. Both teams have a separate responsibility but together they form the development force for the Joomla! project.

Organization

• An explanation on how the Development Team is organized.
• An explanation on how the Bug Squad is organized.

Process and procedures

• Description on the Development Strategy of Joomla!
• A description of how the Joomla! Maintenance Procedures are organized
• Release procedure and checklist
• Team member administration

Miscellaneous

• Unit Testing within the Joomla! project
• The use of Subversion