Pierre Smits created DIR-311:
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Summary: Improvement to How to Contribute page
Key: DIR-311
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DIR-311
Project: Directory
Issue Type: Improvement
Reporter: Pierre Smits
Assignee: Emmanuel Lecharny
For some time now I have been pondering about how the 'How to contribute' page
(see here: http://directory.apache.org/contribute.html) can be improved to
make it more appealing to attract more contributors.
So I have come up with the following (excluding some of the appropriate visual
formatting for now):
*Join the Apache Directory Community*
First of all, a big *thank you* from us for evaluating and/or using our
products. We truly appreciate it. Our products exist, and continue to improve
thanks to you. But you can help us and yourself more!
As we are a community of volunteers working with the guidelines and policies of
the Apache Software Foundation (the Apache Way) in mind, we welcome any kind of
input you can provide to get better products. These contributions, whether you
think of reporting bugs, supplying code enhancements, improvements to our
documentation, answering questions in our mailing lists or anywhere else are
valuable to us. Because these will help us in helping you.
You can also consider *donating* in other ways to the Apache Software
Foundation. Look for more information on that subject at this page [url to
donate page: http://www.apache.org/foundation/contributing.html].
So, you consider *contributing* to our project. But how do you go about
achieving this?
Well, it is as easy as pie. The first thing you’ll need to do is *subscribe* to
one of our mailing lists (see the overview below) and you’re set to go to
deliver your first contribution: a posting there, about how great our products
are, what you found missing, or even the bug you got confronted with. You might
even consider a more interactive approach and join the team on our IRC channel.
After you have had your first contribution over and done with, it stays *easy*.
You can immediately:
* reply to questions, and/or share your viewpoint on how issues could get
resolved
* add to our FAQ or WIKI
* share your code and documentation patches through our issue management
solution (JIRA)
* evaluate bugs and proposed improvements provided by others within our team
- help with outlining and evaluating the future direction of our project and
the development iterations of our products.
To make it more explicit, we are looking for:
* Source code (bugs and improvements) contributions
* Documentation assistance
* Product and feature suggestions
* Detailed and/or constructive feedback
* Articles (case studies, white papers, etc) and presentations (speeches) about
how our products helped you.
But the list is not limited to the above! If you feel we missed something
there, please *let us know*.
The overview of our mailing lists
* The Directory Developers List Subscribe Unsubscribe Post
mail—archives.apache.org
* The Directory Users List Subscribe Unsubscribe Post
mail-archives.apache.org
* The Directory Commits List Subscribe Unsubscribe —
mail-archives.apache.org
* The LDAP API List Subscribe Unsubscribe Post
mail-archives.apache.org
- The Fortress List Subscribe Unsubscribe Post
mail-archives.apache.org
Our IRC channels on free node.net are:
* #apache-directory
* #apache-directory-dev
- #apache-fortress
Again, we thank you and look forward to seeing your first contribution.
The Apache Directory Community
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