The Amphitheatre Buildpacks organization welcomes contributions from everyone. Formally, contributions are given as pull requests for a given repository. To contribute to a repository, follow the steps below:
- Fork the repo you'd like to make a contribution to
- Clone your fork to your local workstation
- Create a new branch for the issue
- Make the necessary changes on that branch
- Commit and push to that branch
- Make a pull request against the repo
- Sign the Contributor Licensing Agreement, if necessary
The Amphitheatre organization is divided into teams that are responsible for the maintenance of some subset of repositories belonging to a particular domain (e.g. Node.js, Python, Golang).
For each team, there are two tiers of participants:
- Contributors
- Maintainers
Becoming a contributor requires a history of interaction with repositories under
a given team's jurisdiction (e.g. node-engine repo for the Node.js team).
Once this history has been established, you may self-nominate or be nominated by an existing contributor or maintainer. Each new contributor must be elected by a super-majority of the team maintainers.
One way to self-nominate is by creating an issue on the language-family repo for a given team.
New maintainers must already be contributors, must be nominated by an existing maintainer, and must be elected by a supermajority of the steering committee.