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Apache > Jakarta > Cactus > Participating | Docs for: v1.7.2 | v1.7 Last update: August 30 2007 |
IntroductionThe Cactus Project is an Open Source volunteer project under the auspices of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), and, in harmony with the Apache webserver itself, it is released under a very open license. This means there are many ways to contribute to the project (coding, documenting, answering questions, proposing ideas, reporting bugs, suggesting bug-fixes, etc..). To begin with, we suggest you to subscribe to the Cactus mailing list. Then you can download the latest Cactus release or checkout the latest code from SVN. Last, you can check the todo list and jump in. Help Wanted HereThe rest of this document is mainly about contributing new or improved code and/or documentation, but we would also be glad to have extra help in any of the following areas:
Thank you very much. Contributions of Code and DocumentationWe are starting to use an informal system for accepting contributions to Cactus. The process varies depending on whether the contribution is a modification (i.e. patch) or a fairly standalone item, and whether you have commit access (committers have been granted access by a vote of confidence, so they are assumed to be trustworthy enough to make changes directly in SVN. If you submit many good patches, you may be nominated as a committer yourself!)
If your contribution requires changing more than a few lines of Cactus
(code or documentation), then it counts as a patch. If
you have a patch and would like to see it incorporated into the Cactus
distribution, take note of the Licensing Requirements listed below, and
then create a JIRA issue and attach
to it a unified diff ( Licensing Requirements for the Cactus DistributionTo avoid legal problems, the Apache Project Management Committee (PMC) have agreed on a policy for under what licensing code can be accepted into Apache projects:
By submitting a patch, you signify your understanding and acceptance of these conditions - like most open source projects , we do not have the resources nor the inclination to obtain signed statements from all contributors! |