Participate in the Likewise Open Community

We are building a vibrant Likewise Open community and always welcome new participation from Likewise Open users, administrators, and developers. There are many ways to participate.

You can discuss Likewise Open topics with other users and administrators on one of the project mailing lists submit defect reports via our Bugzilla server or download the source code and make your own modifications.

Help Other Users

There are several active communities that help Likewise Open users. Please have a look at our mailing lists for an overview.

Report Bugs

You can help improve Likewise Open by finding and reporting bugs. We track bugs using, Bugzilla, for both Likewise Open and Likewise Enterprise. This is the URL to Bugzilla http://lobugs.likewisesoftware.com. If you have questions about writing bug reports, please read the instructions for submitting a bug to learn what information will be most helpful.

Develop Patches

Programmers can participate in the development of Likewise Open by submitting a patch as a suggested solution to an existing bug in Bugzilla.

Obtaining the Source Code

Likewise Open is maintained in a git repository hosted at git://git.likewisesoftware.com/. Because of the use of the git-submodule feature, you will need need to install git v1.5.3 or later. More information on installing and using git can be found at: http://git.or.cz/.

The following set of commands will download the Likewise Open code base:

$ git-clone git://git.likewisesoftware.com/likewise-open.git likewise-open
$ cd likewise-open
$ git-submodule init
$ git-submodule update