Contributing to and Supporting the 4DIAC Open Source Initiative

If you are willing to help 4DIAC, there multiple ways to contribute and support.

Bug Wrangling and Testing

• Find and report bugs. This is a critical need for ensuring the quality of 4DIAC.
• Submit ideas for improvement.
  • For smaller enhancements ideas we use the feature tracker.
  • For larger ideas we use an idea torrent.
• Review and verify reported bugs. Sometimes there is not enough info attached to a bug report or it is hard to reproduce. Trying to reproduce a bug and extending the description is of great value.
• Rate Bugs, feature requests, and ideas. This helps that we can focus our limited resources on the most important elements first.

Documentation, Marketing, and Supporting new Users

• Improve and extend the existing documentation in the 4DIAC Wiki
• Write new tutorials for the 4DIAC Wiki
• Support the Forums: Answer questions in the different forums
• Spread the word: link to 4DIAC, use 4DIAC logo on your web page, write articles, blog entries, etc.

IEC 61499 Development

• Extend and improve FB library. Having a large set of FBs increases the usability of 4DIAC for developing control solutions.

Development

If you are a developer feel free to grab the code and start hacking. You can submit your patch any time when you are ready.

• For ideas where to start your effort have a look at the bugs and features submitted to the 4DIAC trackers.
• For getting started feel free to ask questions in the Developers forum.