Anyone who has contributed code to Joomla is familiar with Joomlacode. While it works pretty well for what it does, there’s also a lot of headaches associated with it. The interface isn’t friendly, the code is buggy, it’s completely disconnected from our code on GitHub, etc. At the end of the day though, Joomlacode meets the high demands of the Joomla Bug Squad, and a suitable replacement hasn’t been found for it... Until now. In this session, we take a look at the Joomla Issue Tracker, an issue tracking application built on our Framework code to help fix some of the headaches that exist with Joomlacode. See how members of the Joomla community have come together to build an issue tracking solution that meets the demands of the project while making contributing fun.

1. Joomla! Framework
+ Issue Management
+ GitHub
= Fun Code
Michael Babker
@mbabker #jwc13 #jtracker

2. OR
@mbabker #jwc13 #jtracker

3. Going to Combat
Against Joomlacode
Michael Babker
@mbabker #jwc13 #jtracker

4. What’s This All
About?
Eating our own dog food
Improving our system
Making things easier

5. History
~ 10/2011 - CMS Code moves to GitHub
Discussion starts on
tracker
10/2012 - Work starts on Issue
Tracker

6. Why not X?
GitHub - Issues list equivalent of a
to-do list
Other systems - No agreement

7. Getting Started
Oct 5, 2012 - Code started using
Platform as base
Using best of Platform and CMS
Web and CLI apps

8. Reset
Joomla Framework born January 2013
April 2013 - Start restructuring from
Platform to Framework based

9. Advantages
More Control
New Tools

10. System Profile
developer.joomla.org
(CMS)
issues.joomla.org
(Issue Tracker)
# of Queries:
65
Memory Use:
14.2 MB
Application Time:
151ms
# of Queries:
4
Memory Use:
8.76 MB
Application Time:
225ms

11. Toolset

19. Internationalization
Localized interface
Accepting translations soon!

20. Contributors

21. Behind the Scenes
PR-<branch> labels
on CMS pulls

22. Behind the Scenes
Documentation

23. Behind the Scenes
Management

24. Behind the Scenes
Database

25. Roadmap
Gamification
Integrated ideas pool
Reporting

26. Beta Testing
issues.joomla.org
Login with GitHub
Test away!
I’m beta testing the
new Joomla Issue
Tracker! http://
issues.joomla.org
#jwc13 #jtracker

27. Questions
Resources:
https://github.com/joomla/jissues
http://issues.joomla.org
Google+ - Joomla Issue Tracker
Collaboration