How to Get Involved

Every volunteer project obtains its strength from the people involved in it. We invite you to participate as much or as little as you choose. The roles and responsibilities that people can assume in the project are based on merit. Everybody's input matters!

There are a variety of ways to participate. Regardless of how you choose to participate, we suggest you join some or all of our mailing lists.

Use the SIP Communicator and Give Us Feedback
Using the SIP Communicator, reporting bugs, making feature requests, et cetera, is by far the most important role. Your feedback allows the project to evolve.

Contribute Code Documentation or Patches
In this role, you participate in the actual development of the code. If this is the type of role you'd like to play, here are some steps (in addition to the ones above) to get you started:

Here is one developer's advice how to get involved. It specifically talks about Apache's Jakarta Tomcat, but the general idea can also be applied to the SIP Communicator project.

Here is another comment that was sent to the about the opensource process and the contrast between how an opensource product and a proprietary product improve through the user community.



This document has been strongly influenced by Apache's "Get Involved" section<>