First of all, a big thank you from us for evaluating and/or using our products. We truly appreciate it. Our products exist, and continue to improve thanks to you. But you can help us and yourself more!
As we are a community of volunteers working with the guidelines and policies of the Apache Software Foundation (the Apache Way) in mind, we welcome any kind of input you can provide to get better products. These contributions, whether you think of reporting bugs, supplying code enhancements, improvements to our documentation, answering questions in our mailing lists or anywhere else are valuable to us. Because these will help us in helping you.
You can also consider donating in other ways to the Apache Software Foundation. Look for more information on that subject at these pages: resource donation or sponsorship program.
So, you consider contributing to our project. But how do you go about achieving this?
Well, it is as easy as pie. The first thing you need to do is to subscribe to one of our mailing lists (see the overview below, or look here: mailing lists) and you are set to go to deliver your first contribution: a posting there, about how great our product are, what you found missing, or even the bug you're confronted with. You might even consider a more interactive approach and join the team on our IRC channels.
After you have had your first contribution over and done with, it stays easy. You can:
To make it a bit more explicit, we are looking for:
But the list is not limited to the above! If you feel we missed something there, please let us know.
Our mailing lists
Name | Subscribe | Post | Archive |
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The Directory Developers List | Subscribe | Post | mail-archives.apache.org |
The Directory Users List | Subscribe | Post | mail-archives.apache.org |
The Directory Commits List | Subscribe | — | mail-archives.apache.org |
The LDAP API List | Subscribe | Post | mail-archives.apache.org |
Our IRC channels on freenode.net, where we have also informal discussions:
Again, we thank you and look forward to seeing your first contribution.
The Apache Directory Community