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Get involved and Contribute via forums, edit the documentation, work on the issue tracker, and submit pull requests on Github.
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After being an active participant, you can mail the dev list and request JIRA/Confluence karma. We can then grant the necessary karma, so you can start working on JIRA issues and editing the wiki.
Factors considered to become a Committer
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Community - Active Participation helps build it
- Knowing when to leverage other committers, groups (nobody knows everything)
- The involvement in the number of pull requests: https://github.com/codice/ddf/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=involves
- Reviewing pull requests and providing impactful feedback (even if it is not requested, it is open source).
- Ability to effectively communicate technical opinion
- Ability to resolve disagreements on technical solutions
- Willingness to -1 PRs or request changes, ideas with sound technical logic
- Actively posting to the Google Group Forums
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- Providing guidance/feedback on architectural direction of the project
- Proper usage of existing architectural constructs: Catalog Framework, Plugins, Transformers, Actions, Endpoints, Sources, Catalog Provider (Solr)
- Understanding concepts of re-usable code
- Federation concepts (querying, availability, Sources, Stores, Providers, Fanout, Registry)
Documentation
- Improving documentation for the benefit of all community members
- In the spirit of Github's open source survey - "Documentation is highly valued, frequently overlooked, and a means for establishing inclusive and accessible communities."
Testing - Unit and Integration Tests (PaxExam)
- Adding new tests
- Fixing race conditions/Improving stability
- Modifying/Improving existing tests
Security
Authentication - user management
- Authorization - policy management
- SAML/SSO
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User Interfaces
- Demonstrated ability to contribute (JavaScript) to Intrigue or the Admin Console