Have you ever contributed to an open source project? There are tonnes of different ways to help out, and we want to show you how: From GitHub workflows and general contributing as well as more specific Icinga related topics. We at Icinga have been working on some guidelines for getting started with development on our projects – contributing to the Icinga project has never been easier! That could be working on a plugin, a webmodule, fixing bugs in Icinga Web 2 or Icinga 2, adding features to the director or simply adapting the documentation.

1. Contributing to Open Source

2. Who am I?
Feu Mourek they|them
GitLab Trainer for NETWAYS
Development Advocate for Icinga

3. Infrastructure Monitoring
Observe your entire IT in one Place
Monitoring Automation
Monitor massive amounts of data.
Cloud Monitoring
Monitor the private, the public and hybrid.
Metrics & Logs
Get the context and recognize trends.
Analytics
Analyze data and perform proactively.
Notifications
Get alerted and react with confidence.
The Icinga Stack

4. We’re an Open Source company
More than just open source code.
The people working on Icinga are more than just who we see in our office.
Icinga lives from your ideas and contributions.

5. How to contribute
Making changes to the repositories
Making a difference for other users
Helping the developers
Contributing takes different forms

6. Making Changes to the Repositories
You can interact with Issues on GitHub.
Or you could Fork the repository and submit a Pull Request.
Check for Contributing guidelines.

7. Forking and Branching
Only fix one issue per change.
Choose a meaningful name for a branch.
The same applies for your commits!

8. Committing and Merging
The same applies for your commits!
Fix problem with notifications in HA cluster
There was a race condition when restarting.
refs #4567

9. Documentation
Read through and fix typos
Test the installation
Suggest structural changes in issues or Pull Requests
Format: GitHub flavoured Markdown.
Location: doc/
Getting started: CONTRIBUTING.md or ask in the Forum

10. Making Changes for Other Users
Be active in the forums
Ask questions, start discussions
If you can, try to help others with their problems!
The Icinga forum is community.icinga.com

11. Helping the developers
Testing software is important.
Check out beta versions and new releases
Learn how to write good bug reports

12. twitter.com/icinga github.com/icinga facebook.com/icinga
icinga.com
Thank You!
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