Joomla Extensions Directory Submission Guidelines

As far as I can tell, this is one of the best-hidden pages on the internet.

When submitting extensions to the Joomla Extensions Directory, you are presented with several severe warnings clearly aimed at keeping over-eager coders from drowning the extension review staff with inquiries on the status of their submissions.  A conspicuous warning states that "Inquiring before that time will cause your listing to be suspended for 60 days."  Yikes.

While abundantly obvious that inquiries are not welcome, there is also no link to the submission guidelines, or common causes for rejection.

Finally, after checking daily on the status of our submission (for our Kiva Teams module for Joomla) for almost a month, there was an error message in the box, with a link to the Joomla Extensions Directory Error Codes for Submissions page.

At present, the JED lists the following as possible reasons your extension might not be approved:

• PH1-PHP Headers missing GPL License Notice
• PH2-PHP Files missing JEXEC security
• PH3 - License tag missing or incorrect in XML install file.
• TM1-Domain Violation (Domain not registered with and approved by Open Source Matters)
• TM2-Extension Name Violation (Extension name is not registered with and approved by Open Source Matters)
• TM3-Logo Usage Violation (Logo is not registered/approved by Open Source Matters)
• SE1-Extension is missing index.html file in all folders
• SE2-Extension does not install/uninstall on a basic setup
• SE3-Extension is a hack
• SE4-Extension modifies the permissions of files/folders without warning
• GL1-General Listing Error - See details below for specific notice!
• GL2-Name already taken
• GL3-Download link does not point directly to download
• GL4-Unique Install Information missing
• LC1-Licensing Violation - not GPL licensed or non-compliance w/ JED Licensing Guidelines
• LC2-Your extension is commercial but you have not included a link to your Terms/License

Hopefully they'll post a link to this somewhere on the submission page, but until they do, you can find it here.