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       Catalyst::Manual::DevelopmentProcess - Administrative structure of the Catalyst Development Process

Contributing to Catalyst

       The main philosophy behind Catalyst development can be summarized as:

           Patches welcome!

       Everyone is welcome (and will be encouraged) to contribute to Catalyst in whatever capacity they're able
       to. People in #catalyst-dev will be more than happy to talk newcomers through contributing their first
       patch, or how best to go about their first CPAN extension module....

Catalyst development

   Discussing proposed bugfixes or improvements
       <http://wiki.catalystframework.org/wiki/#Community> has information about how to get in touch with the
       Catalyst "community".  In particular, you would want to discuss a proposed change on the mailing list:

           http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst-dev

       or on IRC:

           irc://irc.perl.org/catalyst-dev
           http://wiki.catalystframework.org/wiki/livegroups

       Usually, the core team will be more than happy for you to contribute, and will talk you through how to
       submit a patch, or get a "commit bit".

   Repositories
       The Catalyst git repository can be found at:

           read: git://git.shadowcat.co.uk/catagits/PROJECTNAME
           write: catagits@git.shadowcat.co.uk:PROJECTNAME
           browser: https://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi

       The Catalyst subversion repository can be found at:

           svn: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/repos/Catalyst
           browser: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/svnweb/Catalyst

   Schedule
       There is no dated release cycle for Catalyst. New releases will be made when sufficient small fixes have
       accumulated; or an important bugfix, or significant feature addition, is completed.

   Roadmap for features
       The Catalyst Roadmap is kept at
       <http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=catagits/Catalyst-Runtime.git;a=blob_plain;f=lib/Catalyst/ROADMAP.pod;hb=master>

   Bug list
       The TODO list with known bugs / deficiencies is kept at
       <http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=catagits/Catalyst-Runtime.git;a=blob_plain;f=TODO;hb=master>

The Catalyst Core Team

       The intention of the Catalyst Core Team is to maintain and support the Catalyst framework, in order for
       it to be a viable and stable framework for developing web-based MVC applications. This includes both
       technical decisions about the Catalyst core distribution, and public relations relating to the Catalyst
       framework as a whole.

       The current goals of the Catalyst core development team are stability, performance, and a properly paced
       addition of features, with a focus on extensibility.

       The core team is concerned with the 'core' Catalyst distributions (i.e. Catalyst::Runtime,
       Catalyst::Devel and Catalyst::Manual), and also tries to encourage best practices for extension authors,
       and cooperation and shared vision within the Catalyst community.

   Membership
       The Catalyst Core Team consists of the developers who have full commit privileges to the entire Catalyst
       source tree, and who have made a significant contribution to the core Catalyst distributions, and various
       extensions and plugins.

       In addition, the core team includes members that have non-technical roles, such as marketing, legal, or
       economic responsibilities.

       Currently, the Core Team consists of the following people:

       Brian Cassidy
       Andy Grundman
       Christian Hansen
       Yuval Kogman
       Marcus Ramberg
       Jonathan Rockway
       Jesse Sheidlower
       Matt S. Trout
       Florian Ragwitz
       Tomas Doran

       New members of the Core Team must be accepted by a 2/3 majority by the current members.

   Technical Decisions.
       Any change to the Catalyst core which can not be conceived as a correction of an error in the current
       feature set will need to be accepted by at least 3 members of the Core Team before it can be committed to
       master (which is the basis for CPAN releases). Anyone with access is at any time free to make a branch to
       develop a proof of concept for a feature to be committed to master.

   Organizational and Philosophical Decisions.
       Any organizational or philosophical decision should be decided by majority vote. Thus it should be a goal
       of the organization that its membership number should at any time be an odd number, to render it
       effective with regards to decision making. The exceptions to this rule are changes to this charter and
       additions to the membership of the Core Team, which require a 2/3 majority.

   CPAN Releases
       Planned releases to CPAN should be performed by the release manager, at the time of writing Marcus
       Ramberg, or the deputy release manager, at the time of writing Florian Ragwitz. In the case of critical
       error correction, any member of the Core Team can perform a rescue release.

   Public statements from the Core Team
       The Core Team should strive to appear publicly as a group when answering questions or other
       correspondence. In cases where this is not possible, the same order as for CPAN releases applies.

   New Catalyst Extensions
       As Catalyst is deliberately designed for extension, there is an ecosystem of several hundred Catalyst
       extensions that can be found on CPAN.

       See Catalyst::Manual::ExtendingCatalyst for more information on how to extend Catalyst in various ways
       and how to write CPANable components for Catalyst which can be reused in many applications.

       It is recommended to post a request for comments to the Catalyst mailing list, or ask around in the
       #catalyst IRC channel before starting to implement something, as another member of the community is
       likely to have example or prototype code that you can reuse, and members of the community and core team
       are happy to advise on the best way to implement a generic solution to a particular problem.

       This could save you duplicate work, and will help you produce a better thought out and designed
       extension.

AUTHORS

       Catalyst Contributors, see Catalyst.pm

COPYRIGHT

       This library is free software. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl
       itself.