Contributing to Open Source with the example of Icinga
summary
Practical guide to contributing to Icinga: shows the fork+pull request workflow on GitHub, the presence of two core repos (Icinga 2 and Icinga Web 2), and the repository files that matter like issue templates and CONTRIBUTING.md. Demonstrates editing docs directly in the web UI, testing installs in isolated environments, and writing reproducible bug reports with logs and screenshots. Explains keeping one fix per branch, meaningful commit messages, and using the community forum for support and feature discussion.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 5:05How to contribute
- 6:11Repository overview
- 7:25Interacting with issues
- 9:57Forking and branching
- 11:40Commits and messages
- 13:12Documentation
- 16:33Forum
- 19:30Help the developers
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