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If you are contributing as an individual go ahead and sign the Individual Contributor Agreement.
If your work will be contributed as part of a company or institution email legal@tcrilmailto:legal@axim.org
How do I know if I should sign the individual contributor agreement or contribute as part of a larger organization?
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If you will be working on your contribution during school or work time or are using a GitHub or email account administered by that organization you likely fall under our larger organization agreements. You may also be under contractual obligation from your employer that all code you write is their property or maybe their property if written on a machine that they purchased. If you have any questions about whether you should sign the individual contributor agreement or contribute as part of an organization email your situation to legal@tcril.org and they will help find the right agreement for you. |
Process Overview
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Finding Something To Work On
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The Build-Test-Release WG (or BTR): they manage our named releases, which come out each June and December. They particularly need help starting mid-Feb through June and mid-August through December. See the Working groups page to get in touch with them and view their project board.
The frontend working group: they manage the state of our frontend, including both new features and upgrades. They'd love more people to join them!
The DEPR WG: they work on deprecating various aspects of the Open edX platform. Some deprecations are pretty approachable, others are rather complex. Reach out to them to see if they've got anything you might be able to work on.
The Educators WG is developing, migrating, and improving documentation for the Open edX Platform. This is a first task that is non-technical, and open to anyone who builds on the platform. To learn more about helping with this, reach out in the #wg-educators Slack channel or the discussion board and let the group know you are interested.
The other working groups are very interesting (and worth attending!) but don't have a backlog of work.
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If your change in still in progress or experimental, please open the pull request as a draft. We won’t focus on reviews until the code is ready and will reduce wasted attention on both sides.
Make sure that you describe the purpose of the change that you are proposing clearly in the description of the pull request and why the change is valuable.
Read the bot messages on your PR carefully.
Use conventional commits following the Open edX project standard.
Allow admins to push commits onto your branch. GitHub has settings that allow reviewers to push commits onto your branch. This feature is valuable when the branch is out of date with the base. Reviewers can update your branch from the base with a merge commit that will isolate those changes, but decrease the back-and-forth, which can add days to review times.
Mention related pull requests so reviewers can review them as a single body of work and avoid context shifts.
Check the checks. GitHub required that the Open edX team run checks manually for new contributors. When there are failures, please review them and address them quickly to ensure a timely completion of your review. Failures you may see include linting errors, test failures, failures related to decreased test coverage, etc. On occasion failures may not be related to your change, but can be fixed by merging in updates on the base branch. If you believe this is the case, please update your branch.
Working with GitHub Issues
Work on Open edX is often tracked on GitHub issues, which are organized on GitHub project boards.
Anyone with a GitHub account can interact with our GitHub issues in some basic ways using issue commands. For example, if you would like to work on an issue, let everyone know by simply commenting assign me !
Once you have established yourself as involved in a working group or some other project, feel free to request “Triage” access to our repositories. Open an Axim Request using the “Onboarding” template, and specify that you would like Triage access in order to be more involved in the project. Provide a link to what you’re working on, and @-mention another GitHub user who you have been working with who can vouch for you. If Axim grants the request, then you will find that you’re now able to manage assignees, labels, and handful of other aspects of Open edX GitHub issues.
Once you have Triage access, you can also ask project leaders to give you access to individual project boards that you want to help manage, which will let you change status and other metadata on project issues.
Giving Feedback
We are always looking to improve this process and make it easier for people to contribute to the platform. Your feedback is a very important part of that process.
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