Thank you for contributing. This is a placeholder document while we develop our contribution guidelines.
Thank you for your interest in Free UK Genealogy!
Please begin by filling in our new tech volunteer form and letting us know a bit about you. We will also use this to add you to our Slack community.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1QX4-Cw5-d4ipZVZ4uvl2QPcCvnA5Sm0Aj-IWJhP7igA/
Ensure you let us know what idea or issue you might like to help develop, or indeed if you have a new idea you would like to discuss. We will update the ideas as often as possible, however it is always a good idea to check them out on Github too (see below for instructions).
If you are interested in the next Google’s Summer of Code, please read and apply here: https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/get-started/.
Next, head over to sign our CLA agreement, sign the Contributor License Agreement.
Free UK Genealogy, including its software development team, operates under a code of conduct.
The short version is, Be excellent to each other. (See the full version at https://www.freeukgenealogy.org.uk/files/Documents/Code-of-Conduct.pdf)
Free UK Genealogy development operates on a modified Agile methodology,
working in two-week sprints. Technical teams developing MyopicVicar and
related tools meet via a Google Hangout videoconference every two on
Wednesday at 1530 GMT/1030 EST (FreeCEN) or 1630 GMT/1130 EST (FreeREG).
Participants in this meeting review the previous sprint's work, discuss
blocked issues, and schedule work for the next sprint. Attendance at
these meetings is not mandatory, but an email update from developers
unable to attend is appreciated.
All development is tracked in Github issues, and organized and prioritized using Waffle.io, which provides a kanban-style interface.