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Another important role is the core committer. Core committers are in charge of reviewing all proposed changes and merge into the deployable branches once they are ready.

In Open edX we use a fork and pull model for code delivery. This means that contributors cannot commit changes directly to the edx repositories. As a contributor, you can fork the source repositories into your own github account, commit changes in it, and submit pull requests automatically from there. When you do this, both branches at the source and the fork repositories remain linked, therefore when you make additional commits in your fork’s branch, it will update the original pull request until it is completed.

How to start

There are three main start points for your contributions:

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