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A description of the many ways to contribute to Apache CloudStack. We cover the basic mailing lists membership, testing and voting on new releases, user support via email or IRC as well as indirect ways of contributing like translation and events.
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Sebastien Goasguen,
January 23rd
@sebgoa
Contributing to Apache CloudStack
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How to Contribute to CloudStack ?
Do I need to code ?
How can I help ?
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Apache Software FoundationMechanisms…
Contributing to Apache CloudStack
Apache Software Foundation
• Community over code
• Everything happens on the mailing lists
• Focused with releasing software
Mailing Lists
cloudstack.apache.org/mailing-lists.html
ML are the official channels, decisions are recorded and made there.
Contributing to Apache CloudStack
CodingClone the code repository
Work on your patches
Get feedback on dev@
Submit them to reviews.apache.org
Ultimately gain write access to the codeContributing to Apache CloudStack
User Support
Answer user questions on the mailing lists, especially users@
Share your knowledge about CloudStack, help others install, troubleshoot
Become a committer: e.g Geoff, Shanker…
Contributing to Apache CloudStack
Marketing
marketing@ mailing list
Help promote CloudStack on social media
Help organize events (meetups, workshops, conference)
Talk about CloudStack at conferences
Become a committer: e.g Giles …
Contributing to Apache CloudStack
IRCIRC is the old instant messaging system, still heavily used today by open source folks.
Join #cloudstack #cloudstack-dev on freenode
Engage with fellow CloudStack folks, user support via IRC
Become a committer: e.g Kelcey …
Contributing to Apache CloudStack
Testing / Vote
Anyone can vote on a release.
Voting is a key principle of ASF. Releases are voted on. If votes don’t pass we keep working…
Users can test, upgrade, etc and participate on [VOTE] threadsContributing to Apache CloudStack
Bug filingUse CloudStack, find bugs
File bug reports on JIRA
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACKContributing to Apache CloudStack
DocumentationBig push coming to change documentation format to make it easier to fix and contribute to.
Contributing to CloudStack
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Undirect Contributions
Contributing to Apache CloudStack
Translation
Contributing to Apache CloudStack
Ecosystem
Contributing to Apache CloudStack
Event hosting
Meetups , evening event #cloudbeers
“Build a Cloud Day”, full day or half-day events
Need location and pizzas…
Paris, Amsterdam, Geneva, Berlin, London, Dublin, Bucarest, Madrid, Barcelona, Brussells…
Contributing to Apache CloudStack
Sponsoring Events
CloudStack Collaboration Conference:
Vegas, Santa-Clara, Amsterdam
Denver April 9-11th.
Contributing to Apache CloudStack
Case Studies
WebMD
TomTom
ISWest
PCExtreme
Exoscale
ASG
We need more…https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Case+Studies
Contributing to Apache CloudStack
Get Involved with Apache CloudStack
Web: http://cloudstack.apache.org/
Mailing Lists: cloudstack.apache.org/mailing-lists.html
IRC: irc.freenode.net: 6667 #cloudstack #cloudstack-dev
Twitter: @cloudstack
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/groups/CloudStack-Users-Group-3144859
If it didn’t happen on the mailing list, it didn’t happen.
