I would absolutely love to help out with the project. However, I've
done a lot of development on personal projects, but never on a
"team-like" public project and have never really been sure about how the
"proper" way would be to submit code and patches....but if someone would
be kind enough to "show me the ropes" (off the list, of course)
love to help out. This would also help me feel more confident about
helping with other open source projects down the line.
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Denis Ovsienko <infrastation@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:infrastation@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Hello, list.
As some of you already know, for the last few months I've been
trying to drive additional special branches in Quagga Routing Suite.
This is a very demanding job, which I will keep doing for several
reasons. Given the size and complexity of the project, there is an
obvious impact to my ability to contribute to RackTables. Most of
the time it remained unseen due to Alexey's help and the way we
split development into stable and development branches, but this
cannot last forever. Either RackTables team needs more active
developers or even the very conservative roadmap [1] published
before will be significantly (!) delayed. Or both.
I see new people joining the list and this letter is a perfect
opportunity to remind, that contributing to RackTables requires just
a few things: knowledge of PHP, knowledge of MySQL, some datacenter
experience and a will to learn new things. This is an open and a
free project and, as anyone can see, most contributors' names are on
the ChangeLog (and some even in COPYING). Basically, I am looking
for professional developers with strong discipline, self-starters,
for free. :-D
As an example of a simple work, which also counts, here are two
Mantis tickets requesting updates to SNMP code:
https://sourceforge.net/apps/mantisbt/racktables/view.php?id=492
https://sourceforge.net/apps/mantisbt/racktables/view.php?id=493
If you look at "Roadmap" and "Unassigned" lists in Mantis, you'll
see other requests of varying complexity. Most of them are just
waiting for about a day of developer's time, and if you were looking
for some Free Software experience, just get in. Cheers!
[1]
https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/racktables/nfs/project/r/ra/racktables/6/64/RackTables-development-roadmap-2011Q3.png
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Denis Ovsienko
