Developer

Developer Guidelines

BOARD18 is currently a very small project. At the time of this writing only 4 people have contributed code, documentation or other work to BOARD18.
The testing community for the pre Alpha testing consisted of 10 people. Thus there is not much formal structure to the project yet.

The creator and main designer/coder of BOARD18 is Rich Price. And he could also be considered the informal project leader.
You can contact him on the forums or by email to rich at gandalf.ws.

Communication with other Developers

The BOARD18 project has a brand spanking new forum at forum.board18.org. Rich Price monitors all of the existing sub forums. It is hoped that developers will use the developers forum to communicate coding information and to announce bug submissions and merge requests to each other.

Reporting Bugs

The BOARD18 project also has a brand spanking new issue tracker (bugzilla) at bugs.board18.org. This tool should be used to track bugs, enhancement requests and other tasks. The bug list should be a good source of ideas for developers looking for something to do.

Submitting Merge Requests

The BOARD18 project keeps its repositories at Gitorious. Use this How To document as a guide to using Gitorious to code for the BOARD18 Project.

Developer Documentation

The bulk of the documentation of the BOARD18 code base is contained in this BOARD18 Design Document.
It is fairly up to date but some sections are yet to be written. This can be considered both a problem and an opportunity (hint, hint).
Learning the code by comparing it to the relevant sections of the design document is encouraged.
A side effect of this could be updates and corrections to this design document. This is a WIKI after all!

The index of How To pages could also be of help when getting started in this project.