Contributing

Contributing to OpenXT will be a bit awkward while we're establishing our process. Currently we're transitioning from a closed to an open source model so we don't yet have a handle on all of the new tools that we're using. For now this page is a "best practices" sort of guide.

Collaboration Tools

We're using the available free tools as much as possible. You're reading this on GitHub so you already know that we're using GitHub to host our repositories. This wiki feature is nice as well so we're migrating / building up our documentation here. We also have a "Google Group" set up for general discussion:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/openxt

Feel free to join the group and discuss any / all aspects of the project. The use of these tools is subject to change in the future. If it turns out that (for instance) the Google Group doesn't work the way we want / need it may be that some will expend the resources to set up an "old-school" mailing list. But for now, we're sticking to the free stuff.

Workflow

There are a number of ways you can contribute to OpenXT. In the future we hope to have documentation to describe how you can contribute through testing, documentation, translations etc. The first step though is getting people to contribute code.

To do this the first thing you need to do is build the existing code. This isn't particularly difficult but there is a learning curve. Start with the instructions here: How to build OpenXT