Getting involved with RTP development

Everyone is invited to getting involved with the RTP project. Contributing may include

• Writing a valuable bug report, i.e. report a defect that is not already known, provide a short and concise explanation of the problem, a snippet to reproduce the issue, ideally a JUnit test case that outlines the expected behavior. See the Bug Reporting Howto for details.
• Providing a patch to an existing bug report. A patch must not break existing functionality, particularly it should not break any tests. If necessary, it should contain changes or additions to our tests. If changes are needed, you should explain why you think the test needs to be changed.

Developer resources

• Contributors should, of course, work against the RTP git repository. To clone the repository use this command:
  

  git clone git://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/rtp/org.eclipse.rtp.git rtp

• Contributors should adhere to our Coding Conventions.
• We have a mailing list for development-related discussions around RTP: rtp-dev.
• We also have an IRC Channel on freenode called #eclipse-rtp.