NAME

       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

   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.

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.