Getting Involved

Open Source projects like Enhydra are successful because of people like you. We invite you to participate as much or as little as you choose. Everyone’s input matters, and we encourage you to participate in any way that you can. Come and help steer Enhydra’s destiny.

A community approach to building software products has a number of benefits:

• Robustness
• Quality
• Solving real world problems pragmatically
• Reduces duplicate development efforts
• Allows developers to focus on fun stuff, not infrastructure

There are a variety of ways to participate. Please refer to the Enhydra Community Process page for a better understanding of this community approach. Regardless of how you choose to contribute, we suggest you join some or all of our Mailing Lists.

Product Usage
Just because you aren’t contributing code or fixes to Enhydra, doesn’t mean that you aren’t a valuable resource. A great way to help move Enhydra forward is by giving feedback on your experiences using Enhydra. This takes the form of reporting bugs, making feature requests, giving general product feedback, and contributing your usage stories so others know how Enhydra is being implemented to build solutions.

What to do:

• Download and Use Enhydra
• Join and participate in Mailing Lists
• Report Bugs
• Request Features
• Organize User Groups — let us know at Partners@Enhydra.org
• E-mail your success stories to Stories@Enhydra.org

Contributing Code
Participation in production of the actual code base for Enhydra is what takes Enhydra to new levels. There is a large need for people willing to test the various pieces of software in various environments, and to track, reproduce, isolate, and fix problems reported by the user community.

What to do:

• Select specific Working Groups
• Join and participate in Mailing Lists
• Download the source code
• Access the CVS repository

Other Contributions

We are also always in pursuit of new or existing collaborative projects that would compliment the Enhydra product line. E-mail Partners@Enhydra.org if you are aware of any of these.