Dev:Guideline for participating in the development process

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Guideline for participating in the development process

This guideline is supposed to explain the development of the railML® schema and how you can contribute.

As a developer of railML®-based application you may at some point reach limitations of railML® or even bugs. As the schema is being developed in an open source style by the community, we invite you to help improving railML® by reporting your demands and participating in finding a solution.

The provided development proces

Submit your issue to the forum

If you find a bug or have demand for a new subschema or attribute, you should first put it forth in the railML® forum. Sometimes the discussion there will show, that something you considered to be a bug is in fact a feature, or that a feature you demanded already exists. As an open community, other Users, developers and coordinators will try to help you finding a soluion to your issue.

Discussion process

If the issue finds resonance, the subschema coordinator will moderate a discussion as to formulate a development task (or discard the issue). To contact the coordinators directly, see http://www.railml.org/en/user/subschemes.html.

Ticket

As the result of the discussion process, the development task will be formulated as a ticket.

Workaround

Paralelly with the devellopment of the new subschema or attribute, the community may devellop a workaround. This usually takes place as part of the forum dicussion.

Koordinator begleitet Entwicklung im Subversion Repository (SVN)

Release

Entwickler kommen zurück und liefern Beispiele;

parallel: Weiterentwicklung Wiki