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New Developers

Creating an account on Eclipse Foundation​

Head to the Eclipse foundation website and set up an account by entering your:

  • Email
  • Username
  • Full name
  • Organization
  • Password
  • Country

Then read and check the box to agree to Terms of Use, Privacy Policy and Code of Conduct. When you complete that, follow the instructions sent to your email to activate the account.

Signing the ECA​

In order to contribute to the eclipse-xpanse, you need to sign the

Eclipse Contributor Agreement

which describes the terms under which you can contribute to the project.

If you sign this ECA, you confirm your legal rights to submit the code to the project. You also provide license to your contributions to Eclipse and specified users, however you still own your contributions.

GitHub user​

Since xpanse uses GitHub as its code repository, Developer's GitHub user ID must be configured in Eclipse Foundation Account. Without this any contributions can't be merged. . Steps are documented here.

Eclipse Foundation Contributor​

Contributor guidelines from Eclipse foundation can be additionally found here.