Contributing
The Strongback project is operated as a community-centric open source project. Although founded by FRC Team 4931, we hope that many teams want to use Strongback and contribute to our community. Everyone is welcome in our community.
Conduct
Strongback is dedicated to providing a harassment-free community for everyone, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, race, religion, or tabs vs spaces preference. We do not tolerate harassment of community members in any form. Harassment includes offensive verbal comments, sexual images, deliberate intimidation, stalking, sustained disruption, and inappropriate physical contact, and unwelcome sexual attention. Community members asked to stop any harassing behavior are expected to comply immediately.
Contribute
You can contribute to Strongback by using it, asking or answering questions, reporting problems, writing documentation, fixing bugs, discussing plans, and developing new features.
To participate in any capacity, please join our project mailing lists.
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User group - Join this if you want to ask a question about Strongback. You can read and search it without signing up.
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Developer group - Join this if you want to discuss development, features, functionality, design, or architecture.
You may also consider following @strongbacklib on Twitter.
Code
All Strongback code is hosted in our GitHub repositories. Have a look, get the latest code and build it locally, or Learn how to contribute code Strongback’s coding conventions
Physical test platforms
We’d like to open source the designs for a series of hardware bench tests that will help us test Strongback. The idea is that we’d publish specifications and CAD drawings for each test platform, and then also open source the test code for each platform. Multiple FRC teams could volunteer to build one or several physical test platforms, download and install the appropriate test code on the platform, run the tests, and report the results and any problems or issues. Using this approach, the whole Strongback community can band together to significantly test and verify each release, and make Strongback that much better for FRC teams to use on their competition robots.
Website
Our website is under construction and will be available soon. Hopefully we can whip it into some decent initial state that is publishable and then easy for others to contribute to documentation or website design.
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