Being a contributor means you get to work on the Terracotta source code. This is an excellent way to help us make the product even better, or to influence what types of features or bugs are worked on.
Read below to find out more about being a contributor.
The basic steps to becoming a contributor or committer to Terracotta are as follows:
After that, there's a committer acceptance process that includes submitting the first few contributions as patches, then, based on those contributions, a community vote.
Contact Us if you would like more information on becoming a Terracotta contributor.
After you get in touch with us, you'll be asked to sign and return one of:
User Documentation
Developer Documentation
All information on accessing our source code is here:
Create the patches using svn
or diff
. Make sure that you turn on the -u
option and that you give the patch a meaningful name. Diffs should be run from the top-level directory.
For example:
|
or
|
Then create an issue on the JIRA issue tracking system, provide a detailed description about what the patch does and add the patch file to the issue as an attachment. If you did not run the diff from the top-level directory, please specify what subdirectory you ran it from so the patch can be properly applied.
Principles: