X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=catagits%2FCatalyst-Manual.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=lib%2FCatalyst%2FManual%2FDevelopmentProcess.pod;h=3c16439e79483767af794ea6d2da0b1dff0bc967;hp=36d04b17fa94e2d6c32bb76694ce46d0f547e518;hb=02bb2b5a140dc22d7d002fcdce868656d704676a;hpb=b1a08fe19fd4ce1cd7756727319d08156b1e563f diff --git a/lib/Catalyst/Manual/DevelopmentProcess.pod b/lib/Catalyst/Manual/DevelopmentProcess.pod index 36d04b1..3c16439 100644 --- a/lib/Catalyst/Manual/DevelopmentProcess.pod +++ b/lib/Catalyst/Manual/DevelopmentProcess.pod @@ -2,21 +2,65 @@ Catalyst::Manual::DevelopmentProcess - Administrative structure of the Catalyst Development Process -=head1 Aims of the Catalyst Core Team +=head1 Contributing to Catalyst -The main current goals of the Catalyst core development team continue to -be stability, performance, and a more paced addition of features, with a -focus on extensibility. +The main philosophy behind Catalyst development can be summarized as: -The Catalyst Roadmap at -L -will remain as is, -and continues to reflect the specific priorities and schedule for future -releases. + Patches welcome! -=head1 Charter for the Catalyst Core Team +Everyone is welcome (and will be encouraged) to contribute to Catalyst +in whatever capacity they're able to. People in #catalyst-dev will be +more than happy to talk newcomers through contributing their first patch, +or how best to go about their first CPAN extension module.... -=head2 Intention +=head1 Catalyst development + +=head2 Discussing proposed bugfixes or improvements + +L has information about how +to get in touch with the Catalyst "community". In particular, you would +want to discuss a proposed change on the mailing list: + + http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst-dev + +or on IRC: + + irc://irc.perl.org/catalyst-dev + http://wiki.catalystframework.org/wiki/livegroups + +Usually, the core team will be more than happy for you to contribute, and +will talk you through how to submit a patch, or get a "commit bit". + +=head2 Repositories + +The Catalyst git repository can be found at: + + read: git://git.shadowcat.co.uk/catagits/PROJECTNAME + write: catagits@git.shadowcat.co.uk:PROJECTNAME + browser: https://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi + +The Catalyst subversion repository can be found at: + + svn: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/repos/Catalyst + browser: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/svnweb/Catalyst + +=head2 Schedule + +There is no dated release cycle for Catalyst. New releases will be made +when sufficient small fixes have accumulated; or an important bugfix, or +significant feature addition, is completed. + +=head2 Roadmap for features + +The Catalyst Roadmap is kept at +L + +=head2 Bug list + +The TODO list with known bugs / deficiencies is kept at +L + +=head1 The Catalyst Core Team The intention of the Catalyst Core Team is to maintain and support the Catalyst framework, in order for it to be a viable and stable framework @@ -24,17 +68,24 @@ for developing web-based MVC applications. This includes both technical decisions about the Catalyst core distribution, and public relations relating to the Catalyst framework as a whole. -The main priority for development is stability for the users of the -framework, while improving usability and extensibility, as well as -improving documentation and ease of deployment. +The current goals of the Catalyst core development team are stability, +performance, and a properly paced addition of features, with a focus on +extensibility. + +The core team is concerned with the 'core' Catalyst distributions +(i.e. L, L and L), +and also tries to encourage best practices for extension authors, and +cooperation and shared vision within the Catalyst community. =head2 Membership -The Catalyst Core Team consists of the developers that have full commit -privileges to the entire Catalyst source tree. +The Catalyst Core Team consists of the developers who have full commit +privileges to the entire Catalyst source tree, and who have made a significant +contribution to the core Catalyst distributions, and various extensions and +plugins. -In addition, the core team may accept members that have non-technical -roles such as marketing, legal, or economic responsibilities. +In addition, the core team includes members that have non-technical +roles, such as marketing, legal, or economic responsibilities. Currently, the Core Team consists of the following people: @@ -70,18 +121,18 @@ current members. Any change to the Catalyst core which can not be conceived as a correction of an error in the current feature set will need to be accepted by at least 3 members of the Core Team before it can be -commited to the trunk (which is the basis for CPAN releases). Anyone +committed to master (which is the basis for CPAN releases). Anyone with access is at any time free to make a branch to develop a proof of -concept for a feature to be committed to trunk. +concept for a feature to be committed to master. =head2 Organizational and Philosophical Decisions. -Any such decision should be decided by majority vote. Thus it should be -a goal of the organization that its membership number should at any time -be an odd number, to render it effective with regards to decision -making. The exceptions to this rule are changes to this charter and -additions to the membership of the Core Team, which require a 2/3 -majority. +Any organizational or philosophical decision should be decided by +majority vote. Thus it should be a goal of the organization that its +membership number should at any time be an odd number, to render it +effective with regards to decision making. The exceptions to this rule +are changes to this charter and additions to the membership of the Core +Team, which require a 2/3 majority. =head2 CPAN Releases @@ -94,6 +145,34 @@ correction, any member of the Core Team can perform a rescue release. The Core Team should strive to appear publicly as a group when answering questions or other correspondence. In cases where this is not possible, -the same order as for CPAN Releases applies. +the same order as for CPAN releases applies. + +=head2 New Catalyst Extensions + +As Catalyst is deliberately designed for extension, there is an ecosystem of +several hundred Catalyst extensions that can be found on CPAN. + +See L for more information on how +to extend Catalyst in various ways and how to write CPANable components +for Catalyst which can be reused in many applications. + +It is recommended to post a request for comments to the Catalyst mailing +list, or ask around in the #catalyst IRC channel before starting to +implement something, as another member of the community is likely to +have example or prototype code that you can reuse, and members of the +community and core team are happy to advise on the best way to implement +a generic solution to a particular problem. + +This could save you duplicate work, and will help you produce a better +thought out and designed extension. + +=head1 AUTHORS + +Catalyst Contributors, see Catalyst.pm + +=head1 COPYRIGHT +This library is free software. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under +the same terms as Perl itself. +=cut