The "Golden Path" for any issue (which are usually bugs but can sometimes be other things) in any Joomla release is that it moves through the following statii:

Open → Confirmed → Pending → Ready to Commit → Fixed in SVN

The Coding Team is responsible for the part of the process that moves issues from Confirmed to Pending. If the bug squad was run

The Joomla Coding Standards are based on the PEAR Coding Standards with some small variations as outlined below.

There is always a great deal of Joomla! development activity underway and communicating with other developers in the community is essential. This site is a resource for anyone looking to build or maintain software based on the Joomla platform. There are two main focuses of this site:

• Providing information and road maps to all the resources

How do you get started with Joomla! development? The answer is organized into three areas below.

Reporting and Fixing Issues

Anyone is welcome to report issues or bugs in the Joomla! CMS or Joomla! Platform. For the current Joomla CMS, report issues on the CMS tracker. For issues that only affect version 2.5, use the Joomla 2.5