HiveDB welcomes contributions from programmers, companies, computer scientists, caterers, or anyone who can help out.
Sponsorship is a formal commitment of resources to the HiveDB project. Sponsorship can take many forms. Individuals can contribute their time and expertise and companies benefiting from HiveDB can contribute by allowing their employees to contribute code to the HiveDB Open Source project. When you contribute we’ll put your company logo on the HiveDB sponsors page.
Current Sponsors include:
How can I help out with HiveDB?
As with any open source project, there are several ways you can help (These guidelines borrowed from the Maven project):
- Join the mailing list [http://groups.google.com/group/hivedb-dev] and answer other user’s questions
- Report bugs, feature requests and other issues to the mailing list.
- Build HiveDB for yourself, in order to fix bugs.
- Submit patches to reported issues (both those you find, or that others have filed)
- Help with the documentation by pointing out areas that are lacking or unclear, and if you are so inclined, submitting patches to correct it. You can comment on most of the documentation pages, and this is the appropriate place for additions. We will have a project wiki up soon that you will be able to edit as well.
Why Would I Want to Help?
- By answering other people’s questions, you can learn more for yourself
- By submitting your own fixes, they get incorporated faster
- By reporting issues, you ensure that bugs don’t get missed, or forgotten
- You are giving back to a community that has given you software for free
How do I Join the Project?
Developers will be invited to join based on their participation in HiveDB. Submit a patch, participate on the mailing list or add to the documentation.
Invitations are as much based on personality and ability to work with other developers and the community as it is with proven technical ability. Being unhelpful to other users, or obviously looking to become a committer for bragging rights and nothing else is frowned upon, as is asking to be made a committer without having contributed sufficiently to be invited.
