Documentation writers
Troubleshooter
Patch Author
Developer
Committer
Builder
Contrib Owner
Documentation writers
Skills
- Ability to write user documentation
- Ability to write technical documentation
- Ability to write administration manuals
Troubleshooter
There's a lot that non-coders can do to help in the bug tracker to improve bug report quality. We need help in making sure that bug reports are clear, that observations are fully collected, are separated from speculation and attempted workarounds, relevant log files are checked, etc, etc.
Skills
- Enthusiasm
Backlog
- Triage Queue shows the list to work on.
- Verification Queue show the list of corrected bugs that you should test.
Patch Author
Someone who has a fix that they want to contribute, but currently does not want to get involved with CVS and a build system
Skills
- Linux knowledge
Developer
Someone who is able to retrieve our source code from Sourceforge and make local builds to test out their fix. Note: The actual build system will not be mandated, and several options will be given.
Skills
- Linux knowledge
- CVS: able to retrieve the latest source code.
- Patch creation
- Working build system
- Perl / Python / Bash
- Regular expressions
Committer
Someone who has write access to our CVS on Sourceforge.
Skills
- CVS: able to retrieve, update, and commit a source code change
Builder
Someone who has access to the SME Server Build System. This includes running 'make tag build' on behalf of the committers.
Skills
- SME Server Build System
Contrib Owner
Someone who maintains or develops one of the contrib packages.
Skills
- Linux knowledge
- CVS: able to retrieve the latest source code.
- Patch creation
- Working build system (official or their own)
- Perl / Python / Bash
- Regular expressions