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 "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 like a hospital, then the coding team is like the doctors and specialist that perform surgery on patients that have come up from the emergency room triage.
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