Policies
There are a couple of written and unwritten rules Adempiere developers ususally adhere to. The following documents summarize some of these policies. The list is still incomplete. If you are interested in helping out with formulating the Adempiere policies or would like to discuss them please use the Adempiere-policies mailing list which was created for this purpose.
Policies for Developers
These policies apply to Adempiere developers and it is expected that all persons with a Adempiere SVN account follow these policies. The SVN commit policy is the most important one. Persons working on libraries should read the library documentation policy (and the apidox howto as well).
SVN Commit Policy
Rules for commits to the Adempiere SVN repository. The three golden rules (make sure it compiles, follow existing coding style, use descriptive log messages) and 18 more rules to follow to make sure that your SVN commits are the best they can be.
Licensing Policy
Files in Adempiere SVN cannot be arbitrarily licensed. This policy explains what licenses are allowed where in the repository. In short: use LGPL for libraries, CPL for everything else.
Library Documentation Policy
Libraries for (re)use should be completely documented. This policy explains why they should be documented as well as how to document things, and what style to follow. The apidox howto contains more technical information on writing documentaton for libraries.
Procedures
Whereas policies are normative for individual developers -- that is, they describe how developers must behave -- procedures describe how 'the Adempiere project' as a whole has chosen to behave. We describe what we will do under certain circumstances and why.
How security problems can be reported to security@adempiere.org and how the security team responds to security issues.
This describes Adempiere's viewpoint on binary packages and elaborates the statement 'Adempiere provides source.'
