As an open source project we are always on the lookout for community members that want to step up and help with the project. There are lots of ways to help, and this article will help you get started!
Have experience with mobile or HTML5 based technologies? Interested in sharing your knowledge?
If you've got ideas for the project, or want to discuss ways to improve AeroGear, join the aerogear-dev mailing list and share what your working on, or struggling with. For more immediate gratification join the IRC channel (#aerogear). There are are usually a good bunch of people hanging out there. Ask your questions, share your experience, or just make jokes :-)
Have you run into an issue with one of our examples, sites, or have a suggestion? The best place to start is probably talking about it in the forums or IRC. If you've already done that, or just want to create the issue please do at https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AGJS.
We only ask that you review our AeroGear Jira Usage and Guidelines and use your noodle! Help the community help you :-)
Your ready to start taking action, dig into an issue, and update some code! Excellent!!
The first recommended step is to communicate with the project team. This way you can get any advice, or feedback on your plans.
The best ways to do this are through:
- IRC: #aerogear @ irc.freenode.net
- Developer mailing list: aerogear-dev
- Project meetings: AeroGear Community Calendar
If what you want to work on is already in jira, then ask to have it assigned to you (see communicate section above). If there is no jira, go ahead and make one as described above, and in the AeroGear Jira Usage and Guidelines.
This is pretty standard stuff for open source. Just use your JBoss user, and pick AeroGear for the project here:
Our coding style comes from jQuery's style. Here is a link to their style guide
Our grunt build will run JSHint to let you know if most things are in line.
Most editors will have support for the provided .jshintrc file. This will help during development.
In addition, we have added a grunt watch task which executes the corresponding unit tests whenever a file is added, changed or deleted.
Follow our document that will walk you through how to work with GitHub, and the AeroGear repositories: AeroGear GitHub Workflow & Instructions.
Talk about your work, create a blog, or tweet about it using the #AeroGear hashtag!