From 65fe221cc4bf2d54bddbab2118d0c97b667cd1fd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yannick Warnier Date: Thu, 7 May 2015 16:00:16 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Minor - add info to contribute.md --- CONTRIBUTING.md | 20 +++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md index bdd26c81ef..95315fd023 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -3,7 +3,25 @@ Contributing Chamilo LMS is a free software, community-driven project. -If you'd like to contribute, please read the following document: +Chamilo LMS is an LAMP-based e-learning web platform that focuses on providing an easy-to-use +environment for teachers to improve both the quality and availability of their +educational material, and on providing students with an awesome learning platform. + +We are a relatively small development team and greatly welcome any contribution +from the outside world, although we will thoroughly review them before integration, +to make sure they do not introduce security vulnerabilities or degrade the ease +of use of the platform. + +The 1.10.x (that you're currently looking at) is a development branch for the +1.10.0 release, that we hope to be releasing around mid-2015. It is a +transitional version that partially uses a series of Symfony 2 modules but relies +heavily on Composer to manage the dependencies towards common libraries. Version +2.0 has already been worked a lot on, and has served as an inspiration for 1.10.0, +but due to the huge success of the 1.9.x series, we decided to take a transitional +step towards 2.0 to ensure a smooth migration of all our user base to the newer +version (to be released sometime in 2016). + +If you'd like to contribute to this project, please read the following document: * [Coding conventions][1]: The main conventions document * [PSR-1][2]: PSR-1 are standard conventions rules we use as a base (conversion of old code still in progress)