How to Participate

Getting started

• Create an account on Github (if you don’t have one)
  • Make sure that your local git is properly configured by executing git config --list. If not, configure user.name, user.email
• Create account on Launchpad (if you don’t have one)
• Subscribe to OpenStack general mail-list
• Subscribe to OpenStack development mail-list
• Create OpenStack profile
• Login to OpenStack Gerrit with your Launchpad id
  • Sign OpenStack Individual Contributor License Agreement
  • Make sure that your email is listed in identities
• Subscribe to code-reviews. Go to your settings on http://review.openstack.org
  • Go to watched projects
  • Add openstack/sahara, openstack/sahara-extra, openstack/python-saharaclient, and openstack/sahara-image-elements

How to stay in touch with the community

• If you have something to discuss use OpenStack development mail-list. Prefix the mail subject with [Sahara]
• Join #openstack-sahara IRC channel on freenode
• Attend Sahara team meetings
  • Weekly on Thursdays at 1400 UTC and 1800 UTC (on alternate weeks)
  • IRC channel: #openstack-meeting-alt (1800UTC) or #openstack-meeting-3 (1400UTC)
  • See agenda at https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/SaharaAgenda

How to post your first patch for review

• Checkout Sahara code from Github
• Carefully read http://docs.openstack.org/infra/manual/developers.html#development-workflow
  • Pay special attention to http://docs.openstack.org/infra/manual/developers.html#committing-a-change
• Apply and commit your changes
• Make sure that your code passes PEP8 checks and unit-tests. See Development Guidelines
• Post your patch for review
• Monitor the status of your patch review on https://review.openstack.org/#/