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Let's put our wish list items in here. We can discuss what is needed and who will work on developing them. Anyone who would like to claim some items from this list can pull them out from the top and include them in a description of what they are going to document and list the "wish list" items that will be covered by their contribution below the description.

  • Contributing: What Every Evergreen Developer Needs to Know (some of the code_contribution content could be used as a starting point)
    • Building Evergreen
      • Necessary prerequisites (packages, libraries)
      • The build system (makefile structure, adding new make targets)
    • Using git (the existing git page is already very useful)
    • How to submit a patch
    • How to propose and develop a new feature
    • The DCO
    • The bug tracking system
    • Where to get help and find other developers
  • Navigating the source code
    • General coding info
      • Description of languages toolkits used (expanding on contributing_code)
      • Overview of source tree structure
      • Coding conventions
  • API Reference
  • Useful resources
  • See Dan Scott's information on developing the TPAC at http://bzr.coffeecode.net/2011/tpac_tutorial/ - it does not yet dive

into how we're loading up the context objects from Perl but is a suitably licensed starting point at least.

  • Areas Claimed to Document
  • Overview of OpenSRF layer, Evergreen database, Evergreen server-side, and Staff Client and how these pieces all work together and what happens where will be written by Thomas Berezansky (tsbere) which should address these items…
    • Working on the database
    • Working on the middle layer
    • Working on staff client
  • About funded projects by Vicent Mas

I think the following points should be clarified in the "New Developer Starter Kit" document or be added to the Evergreen wiki or both:

  • How to find out if there are available funded projects
  • How to apply for a given funded project
  • Once a developer has been assigned to a funded project what should she do before starting to work?
    • to be in contract with the sponsor. How?
    • to publish that she is working on the project (in order to avoid that, by mistake, other developers independently work on the same project). How?
  • What to do if, during the development of the project, other developer (for instance a regular committer) implements a feature that covers the goal of the funded project?
  • If, for some reason, a developer stops working on a funded project and the project becomes unassigned, how should the developer communicate this fact and make clear to other developers that the project status has changed to "not owned by anyone"?

It could be good to have this information (or at least a part of it) on its own wiki page: a list of existing funded projects, their status (unassigned, assigned to someone) and instructions on how to apply for a project and how to develop it.

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