How to contribute to WSF/PHP project

Sunday, November 16, 2008

As an open source software development project, WSF/PHP always encourage users,developers to raise bugs, and post patches etc. Of course if you have any great idea related to WSF/PHP or some enhancement to WSF/PHP, you are most welcome to contribute.

Lets see how you can contribute to WSF/PHP project in various ways. If you encounter a bug, you can first check on the svn to see whether it is already fixed as well.

1. How do I provide a patch to WSF/PHP .

Step1.

WSF/PHP uses svn as its version control system. You can checkout the source code of WSF/PHP from the following URL.

https://wso2.org/repos/wso2/trunk/wsf/php/

On windows you can use Tortoise SVN to checkout the source code as follows.

Step 1.

Create a folder to which you will checkout the source code.

Step2. Check out the code

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Now you can make any changes or additions, you would like to make.

Step 3.

Use create patch option in Tortoise svn to create a patch.

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This should provide you with a patch file.

Step 4.

Go to WSO2 Jira project and select WSF/PHP project

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Go to create new issue options and select WSO2 WSF/PHP from projects drop down menu. Then select the issue type

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Now in this issue form, you can fill out information about the issue.

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Next fill out the issue description, your testing environment, and attach the patch.

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Now click create button to create the issue.

This way you can contribute to WSF/PHP project which is used by a large number of PHP Developers worldwide. Looking forward to your contributions.

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