Contributor Guide

Kolab Groupware development largely follows an iterative and incremental agile software development metholodogy also known as Scrum.

In summary, the development process is divided into stages, with different teams participating in getting tasks to the next stage of the process.

Kolab Groupware is a collaboration suite consisting of many components, each of them separate software development projects, some of them dependent on third-party software development projects, and some of them separate altogether.

Casual Contributions

The following guides are intended for casual contributors and contributions, such as a one-time 5-line patch for that one itch to scratch.

• Translation: Localization and Internationalization
• Reporting Bugs Against Kolab
• Contributing to the Documentation
• Fixing Packaging Issues
• Feature Requests
• Testing Kolab

Structured Contributions

The following guides set you up for regular, structured contributions to Kolab, such as continued development and participation in sprints.

• Getting Started with Phabricator
• Setup Your Development Environment
• Peer Review
• Reporting Bugs Against (Long-Term) Supported Kolab Versions
• Run Kolab Using Docker Containers
• (Ab)using Continuous Integration
• Packaging and Continuous Delivery
• SCRUM