How to Participate

Getting started

Make sure that your local git is properly configured by executing git config --list. If not, configure user.name, user.email
Create account on Launchpad (if you don't have one)
Subscribe to OpenStack general mail-list
Subscribe to OpenStack development mail-list
Create OpenStack profile
Login to OpenStack Gerrit with your Launchpad id
- Sign OpenStack Individual Contributor License Agreement
- Make sure that your email is listed in identities
Subscribe to code-reviews. Go to your settings on https://review.openstack.org
- Go to watched projects
- Add openstack/sahara, openstack/sahara-extra, openstack/python-saharaclient, and openstack/sahara-image-elements

If you have something to discuss use OpenStack development mail-list. Prefix the mail subject with [Sahara]
Join #openstack-sahara IRC channel on freenode
Attend Sahara team meetings
- Weekly on Thursdays at 1400 UTC and 1800 UTC (on alternate weeks)
- IRC channel: #openstack-meeting-alt (1800UTC) or #openstack-meeting-3 (1400UTC)
- See agenda at https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/SaharaAgenda

Checkout Sahara code from its repository
Carefully read https://docs.openstack.org/infra/manual/developers.html#development-workflow
- Pay special attention to https://docs.openstack.org/infra/manual/developers.html#committing-a-change
Apply and commit your changes
Make sure that your code passes PEP8 checks and unit-tests. See development-guidelines
Post your patch for review
Monitor the status of your patch review on https://review.openstack.org/#/