Core Contributor Onboarding (Coding roles)

Owned by Sarina Canelake
Last updated: Nov 09, 2023
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Employees of Axim we do not need to sign individual CLA or Core Contributor’s Agreement; they are covered by the Confidentiality & Invention Assignment Agreement that everyone signs at hire. If they leave tCRIL - they must sign an individual CLA to continue to commit code, and a Program Agreement if they intend to continue working as a Core Contributor.

This page is meant to help those who are joining the CC program in the Coding role.

  1. (For employees of an organization): Confirm that your employer has signed an Entity Contributor Agreement and identified you as an authorized submitter under that agreement. As an employee, the code you generate is likely owned by your employer or a client of your employer, so it is important to confirm that (1) your employer supports your participation in this program and (2) the code you wish to contribute can be appropriately provided to the Open edX project.

  2. You, or your sponsor, need to create a Github Onboarding request ticket that includes your name, GitHub username, access requested, email address, and a link to your Discourse nomination thread. It would look something like this:

    1. Requesting CC access for <name> with gh username <gh username> to repos <repo-list>.

      Reason: <link to nomination thread>

      Instructions: Please give access to <list of repos> and/or <grouping of repos>

  3. You will receive an invite to the Core Contributor onboarding course. Please follow the steps in that course to complete your onboarding.

    1. If you don’t receive an invite within 3 days, please comment on your GitHub Onboarding Request ticket.

  4. Take the training courses for privacy/security and accessibility - Note: these courses are currently unavailable (as of Nov 2021). We expect them to be available sometime soon and will ask all new CCs to take them at that point.

  5. The Axim on-call engineer will let you know as they complete the remaining onboarding steps for you. If you don’t hear anything from them for a few business days at time, give them a nudge.