How to contribute to Alfresco Search Services Community

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Alfresco Search Services Git Repositories Infrastructure

Alfresco Search Team is using an internal Git Repository for development purposes. This repository is only accesible for Alfresco employees.

https://github.com/alfresco/InsightEngine

Branches, pull requests and commits are happening in this internal repository.

When master branch is updated or a release branch is released, an internal Travis Job is mirroring the changes to the public Community Git Repository.

https://github.com/Alfresco/SearchServices

How to provide Community contributions

Since Community users don't have access to the working Git repository, PRs and issues must be raised in the Community repository. Remember to add also a test for the change you are proposing.

Below a sample process is described.

1. Community member: Create an issue in Search Services Git project

https://github.com/Alfresco/SearchServices/issues/381

2. Community member: Create a Pull Request with the proposed patch in Search Services Git project

https://github.com/Alfresco/SearchServices/pull/382

3. Communit member + Alfresco: Refinement of the PR with Search Services Team

Approval for https://github.com/Alfresco/SearchServices/pull/382 is required

4. Alfresco: Create a JIRA Ticket

https://alfresco.atlassian.net/browse/SEARCH-3022

5. Alfresco: Cherry pick the changes to a new branch in Insight Engine Git project

fix/SEARCH-3022_OptionalSSLProperties

6. Alfresco: Internal review and verification processes

https://github.com/Alfresco/InsightEngine/pull/1238

7. Alfresco: Merge the branch to Insight Engine master branch and mirror the change into Search Services Git repository

https://github.com/Alfresco/InsightEngine/commit/c860b70fc6841bc3b6fe485311de73458d3dfc3e

8. Communit member + Alfresco: Close the Pull Request and the Issue in Search Services Git repository

https://github.com/Alfresco/SearchServices/issues/381
https://github.com/Alfresco/SearchServices/pull/382

Thanks to Michael Chen for his contribution! We're using their work as sample for this post.