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| <mainDescription><h1>Opportunities in the OpenUP community </h1>
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| <p>OpenUP is developed by the Eclipse Process Framework (EPF) team. EPF is an 
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| open source community that depends solely on the active participation of its 
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| user community to produce process content and tools. There are a variety of 
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| ways to participate in the development and deployment of OpenUP, depending on 
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| your interest and skill level. </p>
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| <p> If all you want to do is ask a few questions to get started, sign up for the 
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| EPF Newsgroup. If you want to participate in discussions and decisions about 
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| the content and direction of OpenUP, sign up for the epf-dev mailing list. Use 
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| Bugzilla to get your hands dirty by reporting bugs and enhancements, verifying 
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| the correctness of method content, or submitting method content to address process 
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| issues. Participate at the highest levels by joining OpenUP technical and committee 
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| meetings. These meetings are where detailed process issues and product strategy 
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| are discussed. </p>
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| <p>
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| Everyone who downloads or uses OpenUP is encouraged to participate at some level. OpenUP is only as good as the quality
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| of the participation of its contributors.
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| </p>
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| <h2> EPF newsgroup </h2>
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| <p> The EPF Newsgroup is the place to ask and answer questions about OpenUP, EPF 
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| Composer, and other EPF processes. Most of the traffic involves how to use EPF 
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| Composer and OpenUP. It’s monitored by the community, and you can access it 
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| like you do any newsgroup. Everyone who uses OpenUP will benefit from the support 
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| it offers and by receiving announcements about OpenUP. Sign up for the <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/epf/community/community_index.php">newsgroup.</a> 
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| </p>
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| <h2> EPF-Dev mailing list </h2>
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| <p> The epf-dev mailing list is used by the OpenUP development community to communicate 
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| and discuss development issues. Sign up for the <a href="https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/epf-dev.">mailing 
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| list</a> to participate in technical discussions and receive meeting announcements.</p>
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| <h2> Bugs, enhancements, and process content </h2>
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| <p> Bugzilla is the tool used to track changes and tasks for OpenUP. Bugzilla 
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| is the Work Items List for the OpenUP project and contains the requirements, 
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| enhancements, bugs, to-do items, and so forth for the project. Anyone in the 
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| community is invited to report bugs and enhancements, to provide content addressing 
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| the bugs and enhancements, and to help validate that the content is correct. 
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| You can provide content simply by adding an attachment to any Bugzilla entry. 
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| </p>
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| <p> Learn how to use <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/epf/process/change_request_faq.php">Bugzilla 
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| change requests</a> for OpenUP. </p>
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| <p> Content can be submitted as text files or exported from EPF Composer as plug-ins 
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| or XML. Edit the latest version of the libraries by downloading them from the 
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| CVS in EPF Composer. Set up EPF Composer to download the OpenUP library by following 
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| the instructions on the <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/epf/composer_dev_guide/cvs_setup.php">EPF 
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| Composer Development Guide</a>. Note that only committers can commit changes 
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| to the CVS. Any changes made by contributors must be attached to a Bugzilla 
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| entry. </p>
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| <h2> Meetings and committees</h2>
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| <p> There are numerous meetings every week to discuss OpenUP progress and define 
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| solutions. The <a href="http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/eclipseprocessframework/cal" title="EPF Calendar">EPF 
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| Calendar</a> is open to everyone and lists all upcoming meetings (teleconferences 
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| and face-to-face). Participate in these meetings to dive deeply into OpenUP 
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| issues by collaborating directly with other members of the community. Although 
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| everyone is welcome to attend these meetings, it’s generally expected that participants 
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| will, at some point, take responsibility for some OpenUP tasks. </p>
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| <p> The calendar and epf-dev newsgroup also announce the EPF Committer meetings. 
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| Currently, these are held quarterly in both the North America and Europe. This 
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| is the highest level of participation, where committers and contributors make 
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| critical decisions about EPF projects, including OpenUP. Everyone from the OpenUP 
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| community is welcome, and attendees are expected to participate in discussions 
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| and take on responsibility for addressing aspects of the EPF. </p></mainDescription> |
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