Documents

As a developer, you will find these community links useful to get started contributing to OpenStack:

DevStack - OpenStack for Developers

• A script to quickly create an OpenStack development environment and demonstrate starting/running of OpenStack services.

Application developer resource

• SDK, CLI and API resources for application development on private and public clouds.

Code

• Browse source code on GitHub and get a copy of an OpenStack project by cloning a repo from git.openstack.org

Documents

• Access to latest and previous OpenStack release Install, API, Configuration, Operations, User, and Contributor Guides in various languages

Releases

• Information on the latest OpenStack release schedule and status of the previous releases

Blueprint and Spec Process

• Learn how projects use Launchpad blueprints to track feature implementation status and propose, discuss, iterate and track approvals on feature specification using Gerrit on Git repo.

How to Contribute

• Explore various avenues for getting involved with the OpenStack community as a developer, tester, community builder and more.

Gerrit WorkFlow

• Understand tools, concepts and process specifics for contributing code into OpenStack projects.

IRC

• Discuss with OpenStack community developers and community members in one of many OpenStack IRC channels

Meetings

• IRC channel and meeting schedule information for the various OpenStack related projects and their sub-teams.