Interacting inside the project

Discuss your idea

It usually is a goo idea to throw your contribution idea into the Discord chat - either to get help on where to start, to join an existing effort or to get warned ahead of time of complications you may not have been aware of, some of which might even be so severe that it might not be a good idea to integrate your change at all.

The Issue Tracker

For tracking changes made to the project, we have a JIRA issue tracker. Each change that is larger than fixing a typo is getting assigned an issue ticket in the tracker. From those issues we create the release notes that allow us to inform users on all changes made.

Issues and Commit Messages

The reference handle of such an issue should be entered in the first line of a commit message. That way we can later see why a specific change was made.

Access to the Issue Tracker

Unfortunately we are limited who we can give access to and need to pay a monthly fee of $7,50 for every user once we reach a threshold of 5 (or 10?) users.

For that reason we usually have only a limited number of people being able to access the issue tracker. Just ask them (e.g. “taranion/Stefan” or “Kid/Robert”) to create an issue for you.