Contributions

Contributions to the Bacula project come in many forms: ideas, participation in helping people on the bacula-users email list, packaging Bacula binaries for the community, helping improve the documentation, and submitting code.

Contributions in the form of submissions for inclusion in the project are broken into two groups. The first are contributions that are aids and not essential to Bacula. In general, these will be scripts or will go into the bacula/examples directory. For these kinds of non-essential contributions there is no obligation to do a copyright assignment as described below. However, a copyright assignment would still be appreciated.

The second class of contributions are those which will be integrated with Bacula and become an essential part (code, scripts, documentation, …) Within this class of contributions, there are two hurdles to surmount. One is getting your patch accepted, and two is dealing with copyright issues. The following text describes some of the requirements for such code.

Possible Next Steps

Go to Patches.

Go back to Developer Notes.

Go back to Developer Guide.