Thank you very much for your interest contributing to metasfresh.
We highly appreciate your effort and want make it as easy as we can.
By opening a pull request for this repository, you license your contribution under the
GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE (GPL) Version 2 or any later version
You can find a copy of the license here.
Note that we intend to switch to GPL-3 in the future.
Information about the GPL-3 and about the GPL in general can be found here.
Additional information about the underlying principles of "copyleft" can be found in this wikipedia article.
Note that your contribution remains yours and you can still license it as your own work under any other license you wish. We are allowed to use it for metasfresh under the GPL version two, three, or any possible future version.
- If you don't yet have one, create a github account for yourself.
- Create a fork of the metasfresh repository you want to contribute to.
- Important please fork from the
masterbranch. If you need to fork from any other branch, please consult with us first, in order to avoid possible problems down the road
- Important please fork from the
- Make your contribution and create a pull request.
- We will review and comment on the pull request. We may suggest some changes or improvements or alternatives. We will always treat your work and of course also yourself with respect, even in case we choose not to incorporate it into metasfresh.
The process of creating and maintaning a fork with git and github is explained in this article. Note that at the article's end, there is also a link to this article about pull requests.
If you need help, don't hesitate to contact us, for example on our metasfresh forum.
We know that our documentation is still patchy and are keen to improve it!
- Here is our current developer's documentation, about how to get the code to compile etc: http://docs.metasfresh.org/pages/developers/index_en
- Just like with the metasfresh code, we are also grateful for contributions to this documentation
- We have a forum dedicated to this repository. You can enter it at https://forum.metasfresh.org/