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Title: How to become Lazarus developer (committer)
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| 1 | + | You need to contribute at least 10-20 non-trivial and good quality patches (they can fix some bugs from the tracker or implement the new features). Better if your patches will be reviewed by more than one developer - more voices will support you candidacy. After that ask some developer to give you write access. | |
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| 3 | + | By creating patches you will demonstrate your | |
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| 5 | + | - commitment to the project (10+ good patches requires a lot of your valuable time), | |
| 6 | + | - ability to collaborate with the team, | |
| 7 | + | - understanding of Lazarus code base, | |
| 8 | + | - ability to write good code | |
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| 10 | + | A current developer asks for your candidacy by sending an email to the developer mailing list with an explanation of why you should be a developer and links to your patches. If no one objects in 3 days, you're a developer. | |
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| 12 | + | If anyone objects or wants more information, the developers discuss and usually come to a consensus. If issues can't be resolved, there's a vote among current developers. | |
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| 14 | + | Once you get approval from the existing developers, we'll send you instructions for write access to SVN. You'll also get a subscription to the developer mailing list and developer status for the bug tracker. | |
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| 16 | + | Most of this text is taken from [Become a Chromium Committer](http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/become-a-committer) | |
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| 19 | + | *From the Free Pascal wiki, page "How to become Lazarus developer (committer)", as it stood on 2015-07-25 after a change by FTurtle, out of the wiki's dump of 2024-05-26. Copyright stays with the author who wrote it, according to the old wiki's [[Licensing]] page. If you have concerns about this material, [message the admin](/wiki-contact).* | |
| 20 | + | Category: Community |