Contributor’s Guide

In this section you will find information on how to contribute to Zun. Content includes architectural overviews, tips and tricks for setting up a development environment, and information on Cinder’s lower level programming APIs.

HowTos and Tutorials

If you are new to Zun, this section contains information that should help you quickly get started.

• Setting Up Your Development Environment

There are documents that should help you develop and contribute to the project.

• Developer Contribution Guide
• Setting Up Your Development Environment Under Mod WSGI
• Running Tempest Tests
• Running Unit Tests
• Multinode Devstack

There are some other important documents also that helps new contributors to contribute effectively towards code standards to the project.

• Adding a New API Method
• Changing Zun DB Objects

Documentation Contribution

• Contributing Documentation to Zun
  • Using RST
  • Building Zun’s Documentation
  • Review and Release Process
  • Doc Directory Structure

Other Resources

• Project hosting with Launchpad
  • Mailing list
  • Bug tracking
  • Launchpad credentials
  • Feature requests (Blueprints)
  • Technical support (Answers)
• Code Reviews with Gerrit
• Continuous Integration with Jenkins
• Release notes
• Capsule Quick Start
  • TODO
• Technical Vision for Zun
  • Mission Statement
  • Vision for OpenStack
    • Self-service
    • Application Control
    • Interoperability
    • Bidirectional Compatibility
    • Cross-Project Dependencies
    • Partitioning
    • Basic Physical Data Center Management
    • Hardware Virtualisation
    • Plays Well With Others
    • Infinite, Continuous Scaling
    • Built-in Reliability and Durability
    • Customizable Integration
    • Graphical User Interface