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Welcome to the developer pages, and thanks for your interest in this project. There's lots to do, and we'd like to see many people get involved. Whether you want to spend an hour a week working on some small pieces of this project, or you really want to get hacking on the guts of the source, there is work for you to do. In order to keep the quality of the project high, however, and to help keep the anarchy to a minimum, we present here 10 simple rules to getting involved in this project. Drum-roll, please.- Read and understand the contributor's form and the project license. Before you contribute anything to this project you must complete and return the contributor's form.
- Talk with us about how you want to contribute. You may already have some project or extension in mind, or you may want to look at the task list that we're already maintaining. The task list has a number of very specific things that need to get done, as well as some more abstract ideas to get your mind churning. The tasks range from very simple to somewhat complex, so you should go check it out if you're wondering what you'd like to do.
- Request access to the
sunxacml-devllist. This is listed off the project page under "mailing lists." The list is private, and you will not be included until you've done steps 1 and 2. - Read the programmer's guide if you haven't already done so. This will give you a good foundation in both the XACML language and how some of the APIs in this project work.
- Read the XACML spec, or at least get comfortable with the basics. You may not be working on much code that deals directly with the specification, but you should be familiar with how XACML works before you touch any of the code in this project.
- Familiarize yourself with the code and the build process. This project uses ant which should make things pretty easy for most everyone. The code is laid out in directories that mirror the package structure, so again it should be pretty easy to find your way around. If you have questions about what you're seeing, feel free to post them to the forums.
- Read the developer's
rules. These are the rules that all developers on this
project live by. They're here to help you understand the
processes we use, and also to maintain a high level of
quality. If you have any questions about these rules, you
should mail the
sunxacml-devllist. - Pick a task and get to work! We look forward to seeing you adding to this project.
- Get your code reviewed. This is one of the most important development rules. Every piece of code gets looked at by at least two people before it gets added to the codebase.
- If by this point you're still crazy enough to want in, we'll add you to the list of developers. Now you can start working with the rest of the team and continue contributing as much or as little as you like.