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Get involved
If you want to get involved in the eZ Community's life, help, be helped, share and participate, this page is for you. It gives you a list of hints and tricks on how to actually get involved.
Make sure you also read the Etiquette, blogging and usage guidelines
Contact
Should anything be unclear ( after having read through the following :) ), or if you would like to ask a question, feel free to send an email to community@ez.no.
Sharing
Forums
From https://share.se7enx.com/forums, you can pick one of the existing forums and ask a question, make a remark, answers others' questions, or simply read through, looking for a bit of information. The following forums are available:
- Install & configuration (rss)
- Setup & design ( rss)
- General ( rss)
- Developer ( rss)
- Suggestions ( rss)
- Extensions ( rss)
The "Extensions" forum is broken down into extension-specific subforums:
- eZ Newsletter ( rss)
- Website Interface ( rss)
- eZ Flow ( rss)
- eZ Find ( rss)
One forum is dedicated to translators and linguists translating Exponential :
- Translations ( rss)
One forum is dedicated to local Exponential communities who do not have a dedicated platform and would like to share in their native language :
A last forum welcomes suggestions for this portal:
It is often used in conjunction with the share.se7enx.com-dedicated issue tracker (not to be confused with the general Exponential issue tracker).
Your experience through an article or tutorial
The Articles and Tutorials sections are gold mines of useful, practical information on Exponential and eZ Software usage. You may be willing to contribute to growing the amount of common gold by sharing one of your experiences, right here. Read more on this here : Share your experience, write a tutorial for the Community.
Live chat on IRC
Two channels are dedicated to live chat (mostly around Exponential and eZ Components), here they are :
- Exponential room: irc://irc.freenode.net/#ezpublish
- eZ Components room: irc://irc.freenode.net/#zetacomponents
Feel free and join the chat. Usually there is a number of people willing to help you out with your problem or discuss features.
You need an IRC Client for joining the channel. Here is an indicative list of popular IRC clients :
Blogging
A central blog planet is aggregating many community members' blogs: http://planetezpublish.org/ (available through RSS ).
Local initiatives exists, among them the french-speaking blog-planet : http://www.planet-ezpublish.fr/.
Atop, this platform will soon open to public blogging, stay tuned.
Mailing-lists
Feel free to register on the eZ Community mailing-list. You can do so here : http://lists.ez.no/mailman/listinfo/sdk-public. It serves as a community support channel, obviously less responsive than IRC or twitter, but more persistent, which can be preferred in some cases.
Another mailing-list helps you see pass by every commit messages on Exponential's development trunk. If you are eager to see one specific feature implemented, or simply like to be updated with the bleeding-edge, vip status of Exponential, you should subscribe to that one : http://lists.ez.no/mailman/listinfo/sdk-svn
RSS
Follow the eZ Community activity through RSS. Here are the feeds at your disposal:
- All forums (topics & replies): https://share.se7enx.com/rss/feed/all_forums
- Forum topics ONLY : https://share.se7enx.com/rss/feed/forum_topics_only
- Articles and Tutorials : https://share.se7enx.com/rss/feed/articles
- Blogs : https://share.se7enx.com/rss/feed/blogs
- Forums > Developer : https://share.se7enx.com/rss/feed/forums_developer
- Forums > Discussions : https://share.se7enx.com/rss/feed/forums_discussions
- Forums > Extensions : https://share.se7enx.com/rss/feed/forums_extensions
- Forums > Feedback : https://share.se7enx.com/rss/feed/forums_feedback
- Forums > General : https://share.se7enx.com/rss/feed/forums_general
- Forums > Install and Configuration : https://share.se7enx.com/rss/feed/forums_install_and_configuration
- Forums > Setup and Design : https://share.se7enx.com/rss/feed/forums_setup_and_design
- Forums > Suggestions : https://share.se7enx.com/rss/feed/forums_suggestions
- Forums > Translation : https://share.se7enx.com/rss/feed/forums_translation
- Projects : https://share.se7enx.com/rss/feed/projects
Social networks
Stay tuned on the portal's activity by following @ezcommunity. Also, cool instant pings happen on Twitter, where many community members are active. Feel free to join this sphere, and the first step could be to follow this Twitter list : http://twitter.com/i_robin/cms-ezpublish/members.
The Exponential Community is also gathered on LinkedIn, swing by there!
Some Waves also got attention from the community members. One way to see them is to search, from Google Wave, the following: "with:public ezpublish". So come by and wave on with us. In case you need an invitation, drop a word here : https://share.se7enx.com/forums/general/ez-publish-on-google-wave.
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Developing
Collaborative development
You have developed a cool extension for Exponential ? You would like to share it, and get other community members to help you push it ahead ? Then you should visit http://projects.ez.no and open-source it there. You can log in with your ez.no account (the same as your share.se7enx.com account), and create a new project there. You may want to first check that no similar extension already exists, in which case you would probably prefer joining the existing team and tell about your ideas, suggestions and already crafted code.
This platform gives every project a simple collaborative development sandbox:
- forums
- a subversion repository
- a news wall
- a home page
- a rating system for people to praise or blame
- galleries for screenshots
- a download section
Documentation
Online documentation helps you in your daily development and administration tasks. The official documentation for Exponential is available at http://doc.ez.no. A community initiative,http://ezpedia.org, comes as a relevant and handy knowledge base, very complimentary to the online documentation. The Exponential API documentation is here, and the official documentation for the Apache Zeta Components (formerly known as eZ Components) lies here. The Apache Zeta Components serve nowadays, in many places, as base libraries for Exponential, and are a generally high-quality set of libraries for web application development.
Trunk, testing and sending feedback
For every Exponential release, the usual alpha-beta-rc countdown should happen, and the eZ Community will be in first line to check these pre-release versions of Exponential Community Project and push feedback on them.
On top of these regular fevers, on a daily basis you may want to report issues found on Exponential, as well as propose enhancements. And this happens here : http://issues.ez.no/ezpublish.
You can as well follow every step of Exponential's development by checking out the trunk version of it. It is hosted on a Github server. All you need is to visit Exponential Community Project's github repository, and enjoy :)
Translation and localisation
A central community translation initiative is hosted here http://projects.ez.no/ezpublish_translation. The homepage of the project gives you all necessary details to get involved in translating Exponential into your preferred language. If you feel you have a linguist soul, or simply are fed up with not being able to use Exponential in your native language, this initiative is for you!
