Easier
Anyone can contribute to COmanage by
- Participating in community discussions on the Email Lists, in particular
comanage-users
. - Filing bug reports and requests for enhancement (RFEs) in the COmanage Issue Tracker.
- Bug reports with patches, pull requests, or suggested fixes are especially welcome.
- Any code submissions must be small (ie: only a few lines), otherwise see Harder, below.
- Making minor corrections (fixing typos or clarifying existing language) in this wiki.
- Please do not make major changes without consulting the project first.
- Discussing or presenting on your COmanage deployments, to your colleagues, at conferences, in elevators, or at social events where you aren't concerned with coming across as too geeky.
- Funding. Various mechanisms exist for funding project development and work. Drop a note to the dev list and we'll point you in the right direction.
Harder
Non-trivial contributions to COmanage require a few more steps. While this list is oriented towards code contributions, similar constraints apply to other sorts of contributions, including documentation.
- A signed Contributor License Agreement must be filed before any contributions can be merged into the release path.
- A list of organizations that may currently contribute code is available in Authorized COmanage Contributors.
- Read through the Developer Manual pages for the project's current best practices.
- Reach out to the dev team (drop a note to the dev list, find us at a conference, etc) to discuss your proposed work and to identify the correct branch to apply the work to.
- We recommend consulting with us prior to starting any major work so we can make sure you're headed in the right direction.
- All technical work requires an associated issue in the COmanage Issue Tracker.
- Once your changes are ready, submit a pull request against the identified branch. Your changes will be reviewed and either modifications will be requested or the pull request merged.
- If you do this often enough, we might make you a committer. We don't have formal thresholds for that just yet, though.