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How to get commit access

The TikiWiki community is a heavy user (external link) of SVN (external link). While many open source communities have a send-a-patch-and-someone-else-will-commit approach*We use this method for commits to the stable branch (Ex.: 3.1 -> 3.2 -> 3.3) but when developing the new major version (ex.: 3.x to 4.0), all contributors commit directly to the main code base. We feel this is a great balance of
  • having lots of innovation and low coordination overhead when developing the future version.
  • while having minor versions with as few regressions as possible.
So if you need a lot of stability you should skip .0 releases (which really, you should avoid for any project) and have an upgrade pattern of 3.1 -> 3.2 -> 4.1 -> 4.2 -> 5.1, etc
, in Tiki, we encourage everyone to commit directly to the source code. Think of it as applying the Wiki Way (external link) to software development (external link). Over 220 people have done it so far (external link) and it works very well.

Essential
  1. Read and agree to the 3Rules
  2. Get an account on SourceForge.net (external link)
  3. Get an account on tikiwiki.org (external link)
  4. Read Where to commit

    A good idea

  5. Read Hello World
  6. Read about the Tiki Model
  7. Join the developers mailing list.
  8. Join the code commit mailing list
  9. Come on the IRC channel, and ask one of the admins (see: WhoWhat for list) about the ceremony for joining the community and getting SVN commit access. Please do put this channel in your favorites and hang out with us.
  10. Get code via SVN so you can easily keep up to date and share back fixes and enhancements.
  11. Read TikiDevNewbie
  12. Get familiar with the The Wiki Way (external link) and The Cathedral and the Bazaar (external link)
  13. Join Tiki community members on various social networking sites such as Facebook (external link), Twitter (external link), Identica.ca (external link), LinkedIn (external link), Ohloh (external link) or others (external link)

If you don't know how to use SVN or it's not convenient to set it up or learn at the moment, you are most welcome to submit a patch.



Contributors to this page: marclaporte31725 points  , Chealer59 points  and xavi1299 points  .
Page last modified on Tuesday 15 December, 2009 15:39:24 UTC by marclaporte31725 points .

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