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6 Catalyst::Manual::DevelopmentProcess - Administrative structure of the
7 Catalyst Development Process
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10 The main philosophy behind Catalyst development can be summarized as:
11 Patches welcome!
13 Everyone is welcome (and will be encouraged) to contribute to Catalyst
15 in whatever capacity they're able to. People in #catalyst-dev will be
16 more than happy to talk newcomers through contributing their first
17 patch, or how best to go about their first CPAN extension module....
18
20 Discussing proposed bugfixes or improvements
21 <http://wiki.catalystframework.org/wiki/#Community> has information
22 about how to get in touch with the Catalyst "community". In
23 particular, you would want to discuss a proposed change on the mailing
24 list:
25 http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst-dev
27 or on IRC:
29 irc://irc.perl.org/catalyst-dev
31 http://wiki.catalystframework.org/wiki/livegroups
32 Usually, the core team will be more than happy for you to contribute,
34 and will talk you through how to submit a patch, or get a "commit bit".
35 Repositories
37 The Catalyst git repository can be found at:
38 read: git://git.shadowcat.co.uk/catagits/PROJECTNAME
40 write: catagits@git.shadowcat.co.uk:PROJECTNAME
41 browser: https://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi
42 Schedule
44 There is no dated release cycle for Catalyst. New releases will be made
45 when sufficient small fixes have accumulated; or an important bugfix,
46 or significant feature addition, is completed.
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49 The intention of the Catalyst Core Team is to maintain and support the
50 Catalyst framework, in order for it to be a viable and stable framework
51 for developing web-based MVC applications. This includes both technical
52 decisions about the Catalyst core distribution, and public relations
53 relating to the Catalyst framework as a whole.
54 The current goals of the Catalyst core development team are stability,
56 performance, and a properly paced addition of features, with a focus on
57 extensibility.
58 The core team is concerned with the 'core' Catalyst distributions (i.e.
60 Catalyst::Runtime, Catalyst::Devel and Catalyst::Manual), and also
61 tries to encourage best practices for extension authors, and
62 cooperation and shared vision within the Catalyst community.
63 Membership
65 The Catalyst Core Team consists of the developers who have full commit
66 privileges to the entire Catalyst source tree, and who have made a
67 significant contribution to the core Catalyst distributions, and
68 various extensions and plugins.
69 In addition, the core team includes members that have non-technical
71 roles, such as marketing, legal, or economic responsibilities.
72 Currently, the Core Team consists of the following people:
74 Brian Cassidy
76 Andy Grundman
77 Christian Hansen
78 Yuval Kogman
79 Marcus Ramberg
80 Jonathan Rockway
81 Jesse Sheidlower
82 Matt S. Trout
83 Florian Ragwitz
84 Tomas Doran
85 New members of the Core Team must be accepted by a 2/3 majority by the
87 current members.
88 Technical Decisions.
90 Any change to the Catalyst core which can not be conceived as a
91 correction of an error in the current feature set will need to be
92 accepted by at least 3 members of the Core Team before it can be
93 committed to master (which is the basis for CPAN releases). Anyone with
94 access is at any time free to make a branch to develop a proof of
95 concept for a feature to be committed to master.
96 Organizational and Philosophical Decisions.
98 Any organizational or philosophical decision should be decided by
99 majority vote. Thus it should be a goal of the organization that its
100 membership number should at any time be an odd number, to render it
101 effective with regards to decision making. The exceptions to this rule
102 are changes to this charter and additions to the membership of the Core
103 Team, which require a 2/3 majority.
104 CPAN Releases
106 Planned releases to CPAN should be performed by the release manager, at
107 the time of writing Marcus Ramberg, or the deputy release manager, at
108 the time of writing Florian Ragwitz. In the case of critical error
109 correction, any member of the Core Team can perform a rescue release.
110 Public statements from the Core Team
112 The Core Team should strive to appear publicly as a group when
113 answering questions or other correspondence. In cases where this is not
114 possible, the same order as for CPAN releases applies.
115 New Catalyst Extensions
117 As Catalyst is deliberately designed for extension, there is an
118 ecosystem of several hundred Catalyst extensions that can be found on
119 CPAN.
120 See Catalyst::Manual::ExtendingCatalyst for more information on how to
122 extend Catalyst in various ways and how to write CPANable components
123 for Catalyst which can be reused in many applications.
124 It is recommended to post a request for comments to the Catalyst
126 mailing list, or ask around in the #catalyst IRC channel before
127 starting to implement something, as another member of the community is
128 likely to have example or prototype code that you can reuse, and
129 members of the community and core team are happy to advise on the best
130 way to implement a generic solution to a particular problem.
131 This could save you duplicate work, and will help you produce a better
133 thought out and designed extension.
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136 Catalyst Contributors, see Catalyst.pm
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139 This library is free software. You can redistribute it and/or modify it
140 under the same terms as Perl itself.
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