Join the Apache DirectoryCommunityDirectory Community
The The Apache Directory Project is an Open Sourcevolunteer project under the auspices of the The Apache Software Foundation (ASF). We welcome your input and contributions - either with direct participation (coding, documenting, answering questions, proposing ideas, reporting bugs, suggesting bug-fixes, etc..) or ). You can also contribute to The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) by resource donations (money, time, publicity, hardware, software, conference presentations, speeches, etc...) of through the sponsorship program .
To begin with, we suggest you to subscribe to the Directory Mailing Lists & IRC (follow the link for information on how to subscribe and to access the mail list archives). Listen-in for a while, to hear see how others make contributions. The you can :
- Answer questions posted to the mailing lists.
- Contribute to the FAQ or Wiki.
- Contribute other documentation patches, either for the website or for the Apache Directory user documentation.
- Investigate bugs that have been reported and provide patches where appropriate.
- Help with development for the next release of the Directory project and subprojects.
What we are looking for
- Source code and fixes contributions
- Documentation assistance
- Product and feature suggestions
- Detailed and constructive feedback
- Articles and whitepaperswhite papers
How
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If you have a contribution that you would like to see incorporated into the Directory distribution, then please take note of the licensing requirements listed below, and then read the sectionProcedure for Raising Development Issues.
The Cocoon committers have been granted access by a vote of confidence, so they are assumed to be trustworthy enough to make changes directly in the source repository. Other contributors need to submit a patch via the Cocoon issue tracker, JIRA.
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do I contribute
- To discuss Apache Directory topics check out the mailing lists.
- Informal discussion also occurs on the #apache-directory Users IRC channel or on the #apache-directory-dev Developers IRC channel on freenode.net.
- Bugs and other issues can be posted on the project JIRA.
- Additional documentation and discussion can be found on the project wiki.