Just a quick note that a CLA is not required unless the contributions are deemed "significant" by the community of committers in this project.
That said, always a good idea to sign it :) On 6/14/12 11:35 AM, "Michael Brooks" <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi Charith, > >Looking through JIRA is a good start. > >Before we can accept a code contribution, we need you to sign the Apache >CLA (contributor license agreement) [1]. > >If you're on a Mac, then you can use Preview to digitally sign the >document >(Preview => Preferences => Signatures) and you use HelloFax [2] to fax the >document in a more modern way. > >JIRA is the best place to get started with contributions. Each issue has a >"Fix Version" field that shows what release we plan to fix that issue. So >1.9.0 are the next release, 2.0.0 are the following, and Master means we >have no release set. Once you find an issue that you're into, just comment >on it and let the maintainers know that you're looking into. > >At the moment, our Github mirrors [3] are not mirroring - >it's embarrassing for us and frustrating for our users. You can still fork >a Github repo and clone down your fork, but you will want to update the >source by adding the official Apache repository [4] as a remote. You can >combien the Apache repo URL with the repository name to form the >repository's clone address. For example, the Apache Git repository for >Cordova-iOS is >https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-cordova-ios.git. > >To add the apache remote and update your fork, you would: > ># change this address to the platform you forked >$ git remote add apache >https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-cordova-ios.git >$ git checkout master ># update your master to the latest source >$ git pull apache master ># create a branch to make your contribution (JIRA issue 642) >$ git checkout -b jira-642 ># when done, push this branch to Github and send a pull request >$ git push origin jira-642 > >Hope that helps, >Michael > >[1] https://incubator.apache.org/cordova/#contribute >[2] http://hellofax.com >[3] http://github.com/apache >[4] https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf > >On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Simon MacDonald ><[email protected] >> wrote: > >> Read up on how to contribute here: >> >> https://incubator.apache.org/cordova/#contribute >> >> Simon Mac Donald >> http://hi.im/simonmacdonald >> >> >> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 4:57 AM, charithsoori <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I am very much interested in contributing to Apache through Corodova . >> > I went through Jira issue tracker and observed few tasks. But still I >> > like to get some idea from you guys. >> > >> > .. >> > >> > Thanks & regards, >> > Charith Sooriyaarachchi >> > >> > Software Engineer- 99x Technology. >> > @charithsoori >>
