Contributing to Lumiera

All files in the Lumiera project are managed by Git. Although Git was primarily brought to life to manage source code, it plays a fundamental role in Lumiera project communication and contributing to Lumiera. If you’d like to contribute to Lumiera, you will have to acquire some understanding of Git at some stage or other. Please note, this is not the only way to contribute to Lumiera, you can always send direct contributions to the mailing list.

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The Lumiera project uses an infrastructure based on Git, the distibuted sourcecode management software. This deliberately places the barrier for contributing very low: No formal “commit right” is necessary; you can start right away and present your first results in the mob repository.

For starters, follow the basic instructions for using Git, notably the following parts:

http://gitref.org/

If you followed the building-lumiera tutorial, you created already a local clone of the Lumiera repository. So you are ready to go, you can edit build and commit your changes to the lumiera code locally in your cloned repository. Please commit frequently, do small commits which fix/improve only one single thing and use meaningful commit messages.

Check that you didn’t break anything, by running the testsuite.

Finally you can push your changes to the lumiera server to the mob repository:

This creates a new branch YOURNAME on the mob repository. Then you notify the other devs on the mailinglist and they may merge your code into the mainline.