Get involved
If you like OpenCms and want to take part in it's further
development, there are various ways to become an active part of the OpenCms community. We invite
you to participate as much or as little as you choose. Besides writing
code and providing modules and examples to the community, you can also make
contributions to the evolution of OpenCms without spending a lot of time with
it:
If you are a developer and a little bit more
ambitious, you can:
We really enjoy to have an active community, so all your contributions are
welcome.
In each case, we strongly suggest you to join the OpenCms mailing list.
How you can contribute
Please use the OpenCms mailing list for questions and
comments, discussions on the development, about the documentation or about
OpenCms in general. Any feedback and suggestions about OpenCms and it's
functions are welcome - it's your feedback that allows OpenCms to evolve. A
lot of questions on the list are newcomer questions related to setup issues and
to the usage of basic OpenCms functions. If someone asks
a question and you know the answer, please post it to the list in
order to help others getting
started with OpenCms.
If you've built a Website based on OpenCms, we'd like to
hear about it - please report the site for our list of OpenCms references using the Add reference site form.
For the reference description, we are interested in details -
for example, why did you choose OpenCms, how long did it take to develope the site,
what is the exact environment, how many users are served by your OpenCms installation etc.
Another way to participate in the OpenCms
development process is to help testing new functionality of OpenCms. In order to do
so, you should use the latest development source version from the CVS system. Keep in mind:
the sources from our CVS are work in progress and not meant for production purposes. If you find something not working as expected, please mail you observation to the OpenCms mailing list of file a bug report.
You might find that something does not work as
it should. If so, please file a bug report using the
OpenCms bug tracking system.
You will have to create an account first. Please use the bug tracking system
and not the mailing list to report bugs. However, if you encounter
setup related problems, please post them on the
mailing list first, as in 95% of all cases setup issues are
not bugs in OpenCms but related to your local environment configuration.
Since the main OpenCms documentation is now HTML based
and managed as OpenCms modules, it's easy to extend it.
Perhaps you've faced
challenges in setting up or customizing OpenCms in special environments or
according to special requirements. If so, we suggest to write a How-To module about
this topic and make it available on
the Modules
download section using the
Add a module download form.
If you are a native speaker of a language not yet supported in the OpenCms workplace or the OpenCms
online help system, please contribute a translation. There is a special documentation module
available in the Modules
download section that explains how to create such a translation.
It's a good idea to post a message on the OpenCms mailing list first to check out if others are already
working on a translation for your language.
If you have finished a translation, please bundle it as a module and use the
the Add a module download form to make it available to the OpenCms community.
The most convenient way to extend OpenCms is to create a module that provides additional functionalities.
If you want to share your development with the OpenCms community, please make it available on the
Modules download section using the
Add a module download form.
You might have developed an OpenCms core extension for your
own purposes. If you think this extension might be useful for others, please make
it available on the Modules download section using the
Add a module download form
even if it is not truly a module. Try to provide
detailed setup instructions if required. Please contact contributions@opencms.org
if you are interested in making your extension become
a part of the core OpenCms distribution.
Instead of just reporting a bug, feel free to dig into
the code and fix it by yourself. Then create a patch and attach it to the bug
reported in the OpenCms bug tracking system.
We will review the patch and integrate it into a later version of OpenCms.
If you have created a patch for a bug not listed in the bug tracker,
please post it to contributions@opencms.org.
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