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First section of a guide to contributing to Cocoon
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<header>
<title>Making a Contribution to Cocoon</title>
<authors>
<person name="Robin Green" email="greenrd@hotmail.com"/>
</authors>
</header>
<body>
<s1 title="Introduction">
<p>
There are many ways of contributing to the Cocoon project. This document is mainly about
contributing new or improved code and/or documentation, but we would also be glad to have
extra help in any of the following areas:
</p>
<ul>
<li>Answering questions on the <code>cocoon-users</code> mailing list - there is often a problem of
having too many questioners and not enough experts to respond to all the questions.</li>
<li>Testing Cocoon (especially its less-frequently-used features) on various configurations
and reporting back.</li>
<li>Debugging - producing reproducable test cases and/or finding causes of bugs (at the time of
writing, some known bugs are informally listed on <connect href="todo.xml">To Do</connect>, but
eventually a bug database should be made available on the Apache site).</li>
<li>Specifying/analysing/designing new features for Cocoon 2 - and beyond. (If you wish to get involved
with this, please join <code>cocoon-dev@xml.apache.org</code>, install and try out Cocoon 2
and read some of the <link href="http://mail-archives.apache.org">mail archives</link>.
You should have a strong "fluency" in XML technologies, Java and a basic understanding of
the Cocoon 2 architecture - don't just say "it should have XYZ" without reading anything first -
chances are, someone's already thought of that feature!)</li>
<li>Packaging easy-to-install packages (such as RPMs) for the myriad of possible configurations out
there. (The Cocoon project does not maintain anything but the basic <code>.zip</code> and
<code>.tar.gz</code> packages, but anyone is welcome to build their own specific packages and
announce them on <code>cocoon-users</code>)</li>
<li>... and there is just one other thing - don't forget to tell everyone who asks how great Cocoon is! ;-)</li>
</ul>
<p></p>
</s1>
</body>
</document>