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| <mainDescription><h3>
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| Opportunities in the EPF community
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| </h3>
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| <p>
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| The Eclipse Process Framework (EPF) is an 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 ways to participate in the development and
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| deployment of EPF, depending on your interest and skill level.
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| <ul>
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| If all that you want to do is ask a few questions to get started, sign up for the <b>EPF Newsgroup</b> (more
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| information follows).
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| </li>
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| If you want to participate in discussions and decisions about the content and direction of EPF, sign up for the
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| <b>epf-dev mailing list</b>.
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| </li>
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| <li>
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| Use Bugzilla to get your hands dirty by reporting bugs and enhancements, verifying the correctness of method
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| content, or submitting method content to address process issues.
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| </li>
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| Participate at the highest levels by joining technical and committee meetings. These meetings are where detailed
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| process issues and product strategy are discussed.
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| </li>
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| </ul>
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| Everyone who downloads or uses EPF content is encouraged to participate at some level. EPF is only as good as the
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| quality of the participation of its contributors.
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| </p>
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| <h4>
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| EPF newsgroup
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| <p>
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| The EPF Newsgroup is the place to ask and answer questions about OpenUP, EPF Composer, and other EPF processes. Most of
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| the traffic involves how to use EPF Composer, EPF Practices, and OpenUP. It's monitored by the community, and you can
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| access it as you do any newsgroup. Everyone who uses EPF will benefit from the support it offers and by receiving
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| announcements. Sign up for the <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/epf/community/community_index.php" target="_blank">newsgroup now.</a>
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| <h4>
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| EPF-dev mailing list
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| <p>
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| The epf-dev mailing list is used by the EPF development community to communicate and discuss development issues. Sign
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| up for the <a href="https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/epf-dev" target="_blank">mailing list</a> to participate
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| in technical discussions and receive meeting announcements.
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| </p>
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| <h4>
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| Bugs, enhancements, and process content
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| </h4>
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| <p>
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| Bugzilla is the tool used to track changes and tasks for EPF. Bugzilla is the Work Items List for the EPF project and
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| contains the requirements, enhancements, bugs, to-do items, and so forth for the project. Anyone in the community is
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| invited to report bugs and enhancements, to provide content addressing the bugs and enhancements, and to help validate
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| that the content is correct. You can provide content simply by adding an attachment to any Bugzilla entry.
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| </p>
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| <p>
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| Learn how to use <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/epf/process/change_request_faq.php" target="_blank">Bugzilla change
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| requests</a> for EPF.
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| </p>
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| <p>
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| Content can be submitted as text files or exported from EPF Composer as plug-ins or XML. Edit the latest version of the
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| libraries by downloading them from the CVS in EPF Composer. Set up EPF Composer to download the practices library by
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| following the instructions on the <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/epf/composer_dev_guide/cvs_setup.php" target="_blank">EPF Composer Development Guide</a>. Note that only committers can commit changes to the CVS. Any
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| changes made by contributors must be attached to a Bugzilla entry.
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| </p>
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| <h4>
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| Meetings and committees
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| </h4>
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| <p>
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| There are numerous meetings every week to discuss progress and define solutions. The <a title="EPF Calendar" href="http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/eclipseprocessframework/cal" target="_blank">EPF Calendar</a> is open to
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| everyone and lists all upcoming meetings (teleconferences and face-to-face). Participate in these meetings to dive
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| deeply into issues by collaborating directly with other members of the community. Although everyone is welcome to
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| attend these meetings, it's generally expected that participants will, at some point, take responsibility for some
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| tasks. <b>Note:</b> The EPF Calendar is within a Yahoo Group (<a href="http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/eclipseprocessframework/" target="_blank">eclipseprocessframework</a> group),
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| and you need to join that group to access the calendar.
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| </p>
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| The calendar and the epf-dev newsgroup also announce the EPF committee meetings. Currently, these are held quarterly in
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| both North America and Europe. This is the highest level of participation, where committers and contributors make
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| critical decisions about EPF projects. Everyone from the community is welcome, and attendees are expected to
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| participate in discussions and take on responsibility for addressing aspects of the EPF.
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