"..To develop a cutting edge, state of the art Web Content Management application framework..."

Tasks and responsibilities 

The tasks and responsibilities of the development workgroup are:

• Describe roadmap strategy and after core commitment realising it.
• Define a development strategy and implement it.
• Create (architectual) designs for major and minor versions.
• Do bug- and security fixing in maintenance versions.
• Create new versions of the Joomla! content management system.

Status 

When Joomla! originated, development was done by core team developers and has moved to the development working group. This is a new workgroup that currently is being set up. We are expanding this workgroup with skilled developers currently to get anough people around to do some proper development. Complete structure is not in place (october 2006), but basic seperation of version streams (1.0/1.5/2.0) has been done.

For policies and procedures related to the Development Working Group, please see the Development Category on the Joomla! Documentation Wiki.

Community involvement and development 

We always seek for new talent. We are very sharp on who we want because the results of this workgroup determines what the quality of Joomla! is. Most of the times we get in touch with you when we see some interesting work around, but if you think you are the talent we seek you also can contact us. If you want to grab our attention, start commiting patched (see forge tracker) so we actually can see what you do, and how you do. Before you do please bear the following in mind:

• You need to be available at least 8 hours per week.
• Education (or still being a student) in informatics with knowledge of modern development methods and techniques.
• (Outstanding) knowledge of programming techniques like patterns and object orientation.
• Experience with PHP, (My)SQL and webservices.

For details on how to apply we refer to the Applications for participation in the Development Workgroup forum group. 

Group Coordinators

• Wilco Jansen aka Willebil
• Andrew Eddie aka masterchief

Active members

• Anthony Ferrara aka ircmaxell
• Jason Kendall aka coolacid
• Alan Langford aka instance
• Charl van Niekerk aka charlvn
• Samuel Moffatt aka pasamio (working on migrator)
• Mickael Maison
• Hannes Pappenberg aka hackwar
• Toby Patterson aka tcp
• Nur Aini Rakhmawati aka aini
• Steve Reichgut aka Reichgut
• Tsai Jui-Yu (Ray) aka mihu
• Mati Kochen aka mtk