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| <mainDescription><h3>
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| Opportunities in the OpenUP community
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| <p>
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| OpenUP is developed by the Eclipse Process Framework (EPF) team. EPF is an open source community that depends solely on
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| the active participation of its user community to produce process content and tools. There are a variety of ways to
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| participate in the development and deployment of OpenUP, depending on your interest and skill level.
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| If all you want to do is ask a few questions to get started, sign up for the EPF Newsgroup. If you want to participate
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| in discussions and decisions about 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 the correctness of method content, or
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| submitting method content to address process issues. Participate at the highest levels by joining OpenUP technical and
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| committee meetings. These meetings are where detailed process issues and product strategy are discussed.
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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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| <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 and OpenUP. It’s monitored by the community, and you can access it like
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| you do any newsgroup. Everyone who uses OpenUP will benefit from the support it offers and by receiving announcements
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| about OpenUP. Sign up for the <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/epf/community/community_index.php"
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| target="_blank">newsgroup.</a>
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| </p>
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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 OpenUP development community to communicate and discuss development issues.
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| Sign up for the <a href="https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/epf-dev" target="_blank">mailing list</a> to
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| participate 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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| <p>
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| Bugzilla is the tool used to track changes and tasks for OpenUP. Bugzilla is the Work Items List for the OpenUP project
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| and contains the requirements, enhancements, bugs, to-do items, and so forth for the project. Anyone in the community
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| is invited to report bugs and enhancements, to provide content addressing the bugs and enhancements, and to help
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| validate 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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| 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 OpenUP.
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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 OpenUP library by
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| following the instructions on the <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/epf/composer_dev_guide/cvs_setup.php"
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| 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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| Meetings and committees
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| <p>
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| There are numerous meetings every week to discuss OpenUP progress and define solutions. The <a title="EPF Calendar"
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| 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 OpenUP issues by collaborating directly with other members of the community. Although everyone is welcome
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| to attend these meetings, it’s generally expected that participants will, at some point, take responsibility for some
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| OpenUP tasks.
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| </p>
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| The calendar and epf-dev newsgroup also announce the EPF Committer meetings. Currently, these are held quarterly in
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| both the 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, including OpenUP. Everyone from the OpenUP community is welcome, and attendees
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| are expected to participate in discussions and take on responsibility for addressing aspects of the EPF.
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