(Power) Users

Subscribe to the ​mailing list and answer questions where you have gained some knowledge (and everybody knows something!).

Contribute to the wiki, improving documentation, providing examples, write source code, fix ​bugs etc.

Developers

Using the Ticket system is the best way to submit code contributions. See for example #33.

Code quality: Check Your code according to GRASS "BestPractise" guide list.

What else: see ​development collection (to be moved here)

Procedure to request GRASS-SVN write access

To avoid security and code quality issues, a procedure has been established to control and grant GRASS-SVN write access. In general, write access must be requested and is not automatically assigned. Any code submission must be compliant with the GRASS submission rules.

• Write access to the Main GRASS-SVN repository:
  • In general, the ​GRASS Project Steering Committee is responsible for granting SVN write access to contributors (as defined in ​RFC1).
    • The requester has to read and abide by the document ​Legal aspects of code contributions (RFC2).
    • The request has to be send to the GRASS-PSC ​mailing list, stating that RFC2 was read and accepted. This requires ​subscription to the PSC mailing list. After a period of evaluation, SVN write access may be granted and is set up in the OSGeo authentication system (see below).
• Write access to the GRASS-Addons-SVN repository:
  • ​GRASS developers with write access can grant SVN write access to contributors (you may contact an active developer, see grass-dev mailing list archive). The selected developer is a sort of "sponsor/mentor" for the requester. Procedure:
    • The requester has to read and abide by the document ​Legal aspects of code contributions (RFC2).
    • The request has to be send to a GRASS developer or the GRASS-PSC chair, stating that RFC2 was read and accepted. After a period of evaluation, SVN write access may be granted and is set up in the OSGeo authentication system (see below).
    • New commands stored in the GRASS-Addons-SVN repository should be also added as link to the ​Wiki list of tools.

Setting up the new SVN write access

Once SVN access is granted, the requester needs to obtain an "osgeo_id" at ​http://www.osgeo.org/osgeo_userid If s/he already have an "osgeo_id" but forgot it, it can be searched at ​http://www.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/ldap_web_search.py The GRASS-PSC chair (currently Markus Neteler) and other developers can add this "osgeo_id" to the list of enabled accounts in the OSGeo LDAP authentication system.

Contributions have to follow the BestPractise rules (see also SUBMITTING* files in the source code).

Then what?

Get the source code and Happy hacking :) The requester should subscribe to the ​grass-commit mailing list which distributes GRASS-SVN commit differences for real-time code review.