Development

If you are interested in helping with the development of the IRC Collective, I suggest you take a look at the todo list and subscribe to the development mailinglist.

Coding Guidelines

Follow these guidelines:

Try to follow the conventions already used in the source code
No PascalCase or camelCase
No Hungarian Naming Convention either, this isn't Windows
Use underscores to separate words (e.g.: foo_bar_baz;)
No tabs, use two spaces instead

Submitting Patches

If you intend to submit code, please do so by creating a patch using "svn diff" against the latest snapshot and attach the output as a file to your e-mail and send it to the developers mailinglist.

It would be a good idea to first discuss the changes you propose on the developers mailinglist before actually spending time working on them. Otherwise you run the risk of them being rejected because they don’t fit into some larger plans you may not be aware of.

Issue Tracking

For an overview and history on past and present issues you can consult Mantis, our issue tracking software. If you think a feature is missing you can let us know by posting it on the forum, to the mailinglist, on the IRC channel or by using the issue tracker.

Source Code Repository

This project uses Subversion (SVN) as the version control system. Checking out the source code can be done anonymous using an SVN client. If you're not on Linux I suggest you use TortoiseSVN.

The repository is located at: svn://www.irc-collective.org/.

You can also browse the repository online by pointing your browser at http://www.irc-collective.org/source/.

Link to latest snapshot: snapshot-latest.tar.gz.

Documentation

See the documentation page for technical specifications.

Roadmap

The current roadmap can be found here.

Current Todo List

The current todo list is distilled from the next release in the roadmap.

(webapp) fix conversions
(webapp) fix pastebin
(webapp) fix quotes
(docs) user's manual