What is the best way to contribute and improve eZ Publish?

Saturday 12 February 2011 3:50:41 am

Only eZ Systems employees are allowed direct commits to the repository. Fortunately, github makes it quite easy to fork the repository, write a change on your own fork, and offer us to pull your change for integration in the official repository.

You can get started with this doc: http://help.github.com/forking/ and our github repository, https://github.com/ezsystems/ezpublish.

We have a big focus for the next month on how the community and the company can interact in the most beneficial way, and it is a pleasure to read such questions ! Do not hesitate to ask for more informations if necessary. About coding standards, our current basis are the eZ Components one: http://ezcomponents.org/contributing/coding_standards. We will publish a consolidated version of these as well, but they're a very good starting point.

Bertrand Dunogier
eZ Systems Engineering, Lyon
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Saturday 12 February 2011 6:05:49 am

Hello Bertrand,

• I have forked the eZ Publish project on GitHub.
• Then, I modified the feedback_form templates because it displayed only email, subject and message fields. So, if we want to add a field to the feedback form, this field is not display until we override feedback_form template. I modified it to display all information collector fields.
• when everything was OK, I commited my changes and push them to my fork project
• now, do I have something to do to warn eZ team about these changes?
• may my changes are too small? Do I have to wait lot of changes before push them?
• Do I have to commit as soon as possible?

Thanks for your time

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Saturday 12 February 2011 8:52:26 am

Great sync with the tutorial, André ;-)

Now for your changes, you can send us a pull request (http://help.github.com/pull-requests/), but the process is described in André's tutorial. You know where you can ask if you have problems.

Bertrand Dunogier
eZ Systems Engineering, Lyon
http://twitter.com/bdunogier
http://gplus.to/BertrandDunogier