Deltacloud project is a free open source software licensed under the Apache Software Foundation license. The developers community is open to anyone who wants to contribute. Contributors are required to sign an individual contributor license agreement. Do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions about contributing to the Deltacloud project.
The following list contains paths to essential files and directories for developers. It is intended as a help with orientation in the project directory - for example to quickly identify where the Deltacloud cloud provider drivers are stored:
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|-d-->tests Contains Cucumber tests
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|-d-->site Files for this website
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|-d-->client Contains the Deltacloud ruby client
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|-d-->clients Contains other Deltacloud clients (e.g. java)
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|-d--> server
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|-d-->bin Contains the Deltacloud executable deltacloudd
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|-d-->views Contains haml views for each collection
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|-d-->tests Contains unit tests for drivers
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|-d-->lib
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|-d-->sinatra Contains rabbit DSL and various helpers
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|-d-->deltacloud
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|-d-->models Definition of each collection model
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|-d-->drivers Contains the drivers for each cloud provider
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|-d-->helpers Various helper methods used by the drivers
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|-d-->base_driver Contains the Deltacloud base driver
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|-f-->server.rb Contains the sinatra routes
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We track bugs in Apache JIRA. When you discover a problem with Deltacloud functionality, check JIRA if someone has already reported the issue to the Deltacloud developers. Otherwise, report it.
Have you found a way how to improve Deltacloud project? Do you miss a feature or a tool, which we could include into Deltacloud? Our Teambox page is a place where we keep the latest task lists and where you can add comments or suggest new features for the project.
You can also contribute with a piece of documentation. There are still things which needs to be described. If you found one like that and you are interested in writing a couple of sentences about the particular issue, please, don’t hesitate to do it and send us your contribution. We really appreciate your help.