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Getting Involved

Apache Tuscany

A successful project requires many people to play many roles, for example write code, documentation, test, provide suggestions or feedback. These are all important.

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

  • 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.
  • Would like to contribute new ideas? Start with the mailing list and share your thoughts.
  • Answer questions posted to the mailing list.
  • Identify JIRAs in the area that you are interested in and provide patches.
  • Contribute to the user or developer documentation or website. Create the Wiki page on the Tuscany Wiki, create a JIRA and attach the link.
  • Identify known issues that you'd like to fix and provide a patch.
  • Contribute to feature developement. Just let the community know what you'd like to work on. It is as easy as that.
  • If in doubt about where to start, send a note to the mailing list and mention your area of interest. Any questions is welcomed. We'd like you to be involved!
  • Provide feedback: What is working well? What is missing? What can help you with your deployment. This helps us create software that addresses real pain points in SOA.

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

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:

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

Project Ideas

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.

The OASIS activities are carried out in public. You can either observe the activities in the various technical committees, or join one or more of the committees to contribute to.

There are 6 SCA technical committees and by clicking on the links below you can find information about how to join as an observer or contributor. You will also have access to the minutes of meetings of the meetings on the same page.

  • OASIS SCAPolicy TC:Defining an SCA policy framework to simplify SOA application development
  • OASIS SCA Bindings TC:Standardizing bindings for SCA services and references to communication protocols, technologies and frameworks
  • OASIS SCA BPEL TC:Specifying how SCA component implementations for SOA can be written using BPEL

Each OASIS SCA TC mailing list archives can be found here:

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