Developer Network™ 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.
Where to Start
Things have been very busy for the Joomla Platform since the release of 11.2 on 26 July 2011. Since then, 249 pull requests have been accepted made by 31 individual contributors spanning anything from minor touch-ups to comment blocks, as well as completely new packages.
Read more: Announcement for the upcoming release of version 11.3 of the Joomla! platform
Joomla 2.5 is due out in January, which is the culmination of the 1.6/1.7/2.5 series. Now is the time to be mapping out those things we want to accomplish in the next series, which will culminate in the 3.5 release in July 2013.
At the recent joint summit we discussed the process for establishing goals and milestones for the long-term Joomla releases. We want more seats at the table for the technical discussions on how to move things forward. Once every six months the PLT and developers will meet just before or after an existing event to work on the roadmap.
Recently, a number of examples have been added to the Joomla Platform repository under joomla-platform-examples. These show how to build very simple command line applications with the new Joomla Platform. While this was possible using the framework in the Joomla CMS, it's now far easier with the dedicated JCli class. Since these are working examples, it makes it very easy for any developer to jump into building command line applications when the need arises.