Contributing to Loomio

Our development & design processes

Loomio is being developed in Ruby on Rails by a team of dedicated volunteers. We are passionate about agile methodology and we favour rapid iteration and continual improvement over trying to do everything perfectly the first time. We have a strong focus on user-centered design. We operate with a “flat” structure, meaning at the end of the day there’s no single person calling the shots. We all work together and decide collectively what the best decisions are. And we make these decisions using Loomio itself.

Choose a task to work on

If you want to start contributing code to Loomio and you're not sure where to start, send a message to the Loomio Developers mailing list at loomio@googlegroups.com and mention what your skills/interests are and someone can point you in the right direction.

If you're interested in seeing what the rest of the team is working on, check out our Current Development Trello Board. We currently use Trello (a project/list management tool) to manage our project. For more information on how we organize our tasks, have a look at our Trello workflow article.

Submitting changes to the Loomio codebase

Here is the easiest way to submit code contributions to Loomio:

1. Fork the repository - https://github.com/enspiral/loomio
2. Make some changes and then push your changes to a branch on your fork
3. Submit a pull request - this will notify others that your code is waiting to be reviewed
4. Check back on your pull request to see if there are any comments - different people from the team may have comments about the code, and you can talk about potential improvements/changes before it is accepted into the codebase