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Getting Involved

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with Apache Tuscany

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A successful project requires many people to play many roles, for example write code, documentation, test, provide suggestions or feedback. If you would like to become involved, join the mailing list.

Here are some suggestions for getting started and welcome to the project.

Read the overview pages for each subproject and decide where you'd like to get involved.

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- Welcome!

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Getting involved in the project is easy. First, any help is welcome and we are excited to help you come on board. Here are some suggestions for how you can get involved in Apache Tuscany.

  • Tuscany consists of several subprojects. Identify what areas you are interested in. Take a look at samples for that area.
  • Subscribe to the mailing list. If you are interested to get involved at the user level, subscribe to user mailing list. If you are interested to get involved in the development of Tuscany, subscribe to the developer list. Rememer that you can always unsubscribe later.
  • Help answer questions posted to the user mailing list for areas that you are familiar with. Your real usage experience can be very valueable to other users as well as developers on the project.
  • Would like to get invovled in development? Have new ideas? Start with the mailing list and share your thoughts.
  • Contribute to feature developement. Just let the community know what you'd like to work on. It is as easy as that.
  • Identify JIRAsin the area that you are interested in and provide patches

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  • Contribute to the user or developer documentation

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Please note that a single mailing list is used for all the subprojects.

  • or website. Make your update on the on the Tuscany Wiki, create a JIRA and attach the link for your update.
  • If in doubt about where to start, send a note to the mailing list and mention your area of interest

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  • . Any questions is welcomed. We'd like you to be involved!
  • If you are new to open source and would like to learn more about how to work in open source, check this page.
  • Provide feedback: What is working well? What is missing? Get involved in creating software that addresses real pain points in SOA. Any help is good. Be part of the community.

You can get a quick overview of many Tuscany information resources by watching the video "A Tour of the Tuscany Information Resources", Vcasmo site (password tuscany), You Tube.

communication

The Tuscany community also gets together on IRC. The IRC server is irc.freenode.net and the channel is #tuscany.
Internet Relay Chat (IRC) Help is a good source of information on understanding IRC chats.
The following are some IRC chat clients:

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If you are not familiar with Apache, you can read more about how Apache works at this link.

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Open CSA (SCA standards)

The SCA specifications which are implemented by Tuscany have moved to OASIS for formal
standardization. This is being done as a series of OASIS technical
committees, each dealing with one or more of aspects of the SCA specifications.

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