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+++ realtime:rtl:participate [2017/05/19 10:01] (current)
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-====== How to participate RTL? ======
+====== Participation ======
-RTL comprises the topics as development, documentation and testing of
+The RTL project is looking for people who are interested to work with us
-PREEMPT_RT. The progress of RTL can be speed up by help of the
+in the areas of testing, documentation and development.
-community improving those three topics.
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+<WRAP half column>
+===== Testing =====
+Testing is one of the most important tasks in any project. We have only
+access to a limited number of boards and we can only run generic
+procedures. We would appreciate if you run RT on your hardware with your
+application specific test cases.
-<WRAP half column>
+If you run into problems, then you have two options:
-===== Development =====
-There are several development
+   * Report the problem. See [[realtime:communication:bugreport|"Reporting a bug"]] for further information
+   * Analyze the problem and submit a patch. Don't worry if you think that your patch is not perfect. It's a start and at least you share the analysis of the problem. See [[realtime:communication:send_rt_patches|"Submitting a patch"]] for further information.
 </WRAP>
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 ===== Documentation =====
-The RTL wiki is used for documentation of RTL. Therefore the state
+We need help in creating and maintaining content in this wiki. Part of the
-of the art content of [[https://rt.wiki.kernel.org|rt.wiki.kernel.org]]
+effort is to cherry pick pages of the [[http://rt.wiki.kernel.org|old wiki]] which
-needs to be moved into this wiki and several topics needs to be created.
+contain valuable information, transfer them to the new wiki and bring them
-Before getting an editor, please consider the steps to [[realtime:edit_guideline|create an account
+up to date. We also look for editors to document areas which are missing
-as well as the editing guideline]].
+completely.
-Afterwards have a look at the task list and select a topic (topics,
+[[realtime:rtl:wikilist|Here]] you can find an incomplete list of topics which need help.
-that are important but not yet listed, are welcome):
-</WRAP>
+If you pick a topic to work on, please mark it with your name in the
+list. If you chose to pick a topic which is not in the list, please add it
+and assign it to yourself.
+Please see the [[realtime:edit_guideline|wiki guideline]] to get started.
+</WRAP>
 <WRAP half column>
-===== Testing =====
+===== Development =====
-You have a hardware running PREEMPT_RT and there are some problems with PREEMPT_RT? You already fixed it with a patch?
+If you want to help with the development and mainlining effort of RT please
+contact [[rt@linutronix.de|us]].
-Then please consider the [[realtime:bugreport|"Reporting a bug"]].
+The topics, that need to be handled to get PREEMPT_RT mainlined are listed on
+the [[realtime:rtl:start|RTL Collaborative Project page]].
+An overview about features that are disabled by CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT_FULL=y are listed [[realtime:documentation:known_limitations#disabled-config_-options|here]]. (The
+support of those features with PREEMPT_RT_FULL is not a main part of the RTL project.)
 </WRAP>
+----
+<WRAP rightalign>Go back to [[realtime:rtl:start|RTL Collaborative Project Page]]</WRAP>
+<WRAP rightalign>Go back to [[realtime:start|Real-Time Main Page]]</WRAP>

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