Hi, We've had a number of questions about how to contribute to OpenLaszlo so I thought I'd send a quick email out to the list. We try to make the process as straightforward as we can to encourage all of you to think about contributing.
In a nutshell, the first step is to sign a contributor's agreement, then submit a patch. We'll review it and you'll be given feedback and then we'll include it in the incubator. We'll also create a JIRA bug to track its inclusion in the incubator. Once it is included, we'll announce the new contribution on the laszlo-user mailing list so that others can check it out as well. Here's the official write up: http://wiki.openlaszlo.org/index.php?title=Patch_Guidelines You can find more about the contributor's agreement here: http://www.openlaszlo.org/cfaq (basically, you assign rights to Laszlo Systems to include the software as part of OpenLaszlo, and then they assign all rights to the software back to you - so you could even sell your tools if you wanted.) That's pretty much it! Amy On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Amy Muntz <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > It's been a while since we've sent out an update on what's been going on > inside the OL project. Basically, we've been fixing lots of bugs and > working steadily on features in the trunk branch. > > Since it has been a while since we pushed an official release out to the > community, we are going to do that next week. This will be 4.10. If you > look in JIRA, you will see that we have 559 fixes/improvements since the > last release in October, 2010. That's alot of stuff!!!! > > And, there are a number of new features - we made canvas attributes > CSS-able, we added tiling for views for DHTML, views now listen for updates > to parent font, fontsize, fontstyle and fgcolor values, drawview supports > scale/rotate/translate for all runtimes, and tooltips have been promoted > from the incubator, to name a few. We've also made numerous performance > improvements in the script compiler and improvements to lzo's (or binary > libraries). > > Our goal is to get these fixes out more regularly moving forward. So stay > tuned for updates and help support the project by getting those bug reports > in and by helping us implement new features/functionality. > > If you have developed a cool OL tool, consider contributing it back to the > project to support open source software development. Everyone benefits. > > Thanks, > Amy >
