Introduction

Welcome! Dataverse is an open source project that loves contributors!

Intended Audience

This guide is intended primarily for developers who want to work on the main Dataverse code base at https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse

To get started, you’ll want to set up your Development Environment and make sure you understand the branching strategy described in the Version Control section. Testing is expected. Opinions about Coding Style are welcome!

If you have any questions at all, please reach out to other developers per https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

Roadmap

For the Dataverse development roadmap, please see https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/milestones

The Contributing to Dataverse document in the root of the source tree provides guidance on:

  • the use of labels to organize and prioritize issues
  • making pull requests
  • how to contact the development team