Get Involved with the OpenSAF Project

This page contains resources for people who want to help develop, test, and maintain OpenSAF.

Getting Started

• Tools
• Getting up and running
• Introduction to development
• Suggested tasks to get started

Source Code

OpenSAF's source code is currently kept in a Mercurial repository.

• Mercurial instructions
• Mercurial browser
• Daily snapshots of the OpenSAF source tree

Resources

• Development mailing list
• Trac issue tracker
• Buildbot
• Nightly builds as Yum RPMs
• The project maintainers
• Useful Mercurial extensions tutorial (patch queue, transplant etc.)
  • Mq Tutorial
  • Patch split
  • Transplant extension
• Removing Bashisms in /bin/sh scripts
• OpenSAF development notes
• Documents in need of update and revisions:
  • Getting started with OpenSAF (Download, Build, Run and Troubleshooting Instructions)
  • OpenSAF Technical FAQ
  • Implemented SA Forum AIS Services in OpenSAF

Policies and Procedures

• Participation and contribution agreement (I/CCPA)
• Ticket creation and update guidelines
• Ticket Ownership
• Patch submission guideline
• Pushing to development and maintenance branches
• Change control and release metrics
• Doxygen documentation development guidelines
• Documents in need of update and revisions:
  • Developer's Handbook (Guidelines for contributing to OpenSAF)
  • Developer's Guide (Using the OpenSAF Source Repository)
  • Development Process