All contributions are welcome: ideas, patches, documentation, bug reports, complaints, etc!
Programming is not a required skill, and there are many ways to help out! It is more important to us that you are able to contribute.
That said, some basic guidelines, which you are free to ignore :)
Want to lurk about and see what others are doing with logstash?
- The irc channel (#logstash on irc.freenode.org) is a good place for this
- The mailing list is also great for learning from others.
Have a problem you want logstash to solve for you?
- You can email the mailing list
- alternately, you are welcome to join the IRC channel #logstash on irc.freenode.org and ask for help there!
- File a ticket on jira, or email the mailing list, or email me personally (jls@semicomplete.com) if that is more comfortable.
If you think you found a bug, it probably is a bug.
- File it on jira
- or the mailing list.
If you have a bugfix or new feature that you would like to contribute to logstash, and you think it will take more than a few minutes to produce the fix (ie; write code), it is worth discussing the change with the logstash users and developers first! You can reach us via jira, the mailing list, or via IRC (#logstash on freenode irc)
- Test your changes! Run the test suite ('make test')
- Please make sure you have signed our Contributor License Agreement. We are not asking you to assign copyright to us, but to give us the right to distribute your code without restriction. We ask this of all contributors in order to assure our users of the origin and continuing existence of the code. You only need to sign the CLA once.
- Send a pull request! Push your changes to your fork of the repository and submit a pull request. In the pull request, describe what your changes do and mention any jira issues related to the pull request.