Becoming a Developer

What is a Foresight Developer?

A Foresight developer is someone that has been recognized for their outstanding contributions to the Foresight project. This work can be through working with one of our various teams or active community contributions.

Developer Benefits (inclusive of member benefits)

• Foresight Email Address: You will receive an @foresightlinux.org email address.
• Foresight Hosted Blog: You will be offered a hosted blog at foresightlinux.org.
• Commit Access To Foresight Repo: You will be given access to the Foresight repositories so you can commit packages.
• Mercurial Access: Ability to host and commit to Foresight projects in Foresight's revision control system.
• Developer Hostmask: You will receive a foresight/developer/<nick> irc hostmask on freenode.
• Blog Syndication on Planet Foresight: Your blog will be syndicated on Planet Foresight.

Developer Requirements

• Membership Status
  • Active and visible within the Foresight community, including IRC, email, forums or the wiki
• Outstanding Contributions to Foresight Project
  • Taking an active or leadership role in a team
  • Extensive Packaging
  • Contributing to documentation (wiki or the userguide)
  • Assisting with managing Foresight's infrastructure, including blogs, forums, wiki, etc
  • Bug triaging
  • Community involvement and advocacy including working with the Marketing team, participating in the forums, adding to the wiki, or helping write the newsletter
  • Assisting the security team in monitoring security flaws in the Linux community, patching or packaging software, or writing security releases
  • Helping translate and localize Foresight
  • Participating upstream
• Developer status must be renewed yearly.

Procedure to Become a Developer

1. Make sure you meet the above requirements.
2. Create a page for you on the Foresight Wiki detailing your contributions to Foresight.
3. Add your name to the Request Membership page with a link to your wiki page. (Example Developer Application)
4. Attend the next Foresight Council meeting to answer any questions the council might have.
   • If you can, ask some of the members and developers that you have worked with to come and cheer for you.