Participate
Everyone is welcome to contribute to the Shinken project
The Shinken project is open to anyone willing to help. No need to be a developer : improving the documentation or this website can be as important as a code patch. Here are some ways to contribute.
Learn how Shinken works by using the documentation wiki
The documentation wiki is a great source for how-to’s, tutorials, FAQ and generaly learning your way from basic topics right to advanced features to make your life simple. The wiki is a great place to learn and contribute back corrections, additions and help others. You can create a wiki account and get started today.
Beam me to the documentation wiki
Interactive media – forums & IRC
To discuss various Shinken related topics with the user community and developers : Join the Shinken forums
If you prefer to exchange by mail, there is a mailing list for this.
You can also setup meetings with Shinken developers and power users on IRC : #shinken@freenode.net
Or just connect to this web chat page : http://webchat.freenode.net/
The ideas site : vote for your favorite ideas !
You have a new idea for the code or for the project? Please share it through our ideas site. You can also vote for your favorite ideas. When you know that the top ideas will be our priorities for the next Shinken versions, you know how sharing ideas is important to us
You found a Bug, create an issue !
If you find bugs in the code, Shinken is on github to make it easy to submit, track and discuss issues :
Report a bug on the Shinken GitHub Issues
You want to develop new features or add modules !
There are online development resources for the Shinken project that go through coding a simple feature, learning the development guidelines, the testing servers and integrated test cases. Plus Shinken is on hosted on github making it easy to test new releases, make changes, submit them back to the project. You can even live edit files and automatically send back a pull request, great for documentation, comments and small corrections.
Learn how you can extend Shinken
