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Adding new developers

Adding new developer to forum

Create new developer account

If the new developer does not yet have a forum account, he needs to register in the forum first and create one.

Adding to developer group

When the forum account has successfully been created, the new developer needs to be added to the developers group.

  1. Go to Userprofile → Admin → Groups
  2. Custom → Select developer
  3. Primary group → Select developer
  4. Done, new user has now been added to the developer group

Adding new developer to git and patch management

git.openwrt.org

Add the developer's public SSH key to gitolite under the desired username. The developer can then continue to set up their staging repository.

GitHub

Make the developer owner of the OpenWrt organisation on GitHub. This enables managing issues and pull requests, commits are mirrored automatically from git.openwrt.org.

PatchWork

Request with the maintainer(s) of https://patchwork.ozlabs.org to have the user added to the OpenWrt project as maintainer with their username.

Adding new developer to wiki

Three things need to be done to add a new developer to the wiki:

  1. Create wiki account for new developer
  2. Create new developer page in the wiki
  3. Add new developer to group “developer”

Create new developer page

:!: Only developers/admins are allowed to add new developers.

  1. Login to the wiki
  2. Enter developer nickname in the field below.
  3. Click Add page

Adding to developer group

  1. Admin → User Manager
  2. Search for the new developers account
  3. Click on the username
  4. Edit user → add “developer” to his Groups field
  5. Click Save changes
  6. Done, user has now been added to the developer group