Mailing lists

Users

Developers

Issues

Issues, bugs, and feature requests should be submitted to JIRA.

Community

Sonar, like any other open source project, relies heavily on the efforts of the entire user community to be ever vigilent for improvements, logging of defects, communicating use-cases, generating documentation, and being wary of other users in need. This is a quick guide outlining what members of the Sonar community may do to make the system work better for everyone :

• Join the mailing list and answer other user’s questions
• Report bugs, feature requests and other issues in the issue tracker.
• Build Sonar for yourself, in order to fix bugs.
• Submit Patches to reported issues (both those you find, or that others have filed)
• Help with the documentation by pointing out areas that are lacking or unclear, and if you are so inclined, submitting patches to correct it.

Your participation in the community is much appreciated. And there are several reasons this is a good thing for you :

• By answering other people’s questions, you can learn more for yourself
• By submitting your own fixes, they get incorporated faster
• By reporting issues, you ensure that bugs don’t get missed, or forgotten
• You are giving back to a community that has given you software for free

Copyright considerations

Sonar is developed by SonarSource, a swiss IT company.

It is distributed under a free open-source license. However, SonarSource wants to retain copyright on the entire codebase. So, if you want to contribute code to Sonar, and you don’t work for SonarSource , we may ask you to grant copyright on your contribution to us. This is not some sort of evil world domination scheme, just a legal precaution.

Plugins

Sonar has an active community that develop plugins around the product. If you wish to extend Sonar with open source plugins, have a look at our open source plugins forge.

Development

Sources

• Subversion repository (browsable sources)
• Sources and Javadocs
• How to build sources
• Developer guide

Team

• Simon Brandhof (linkedin, twitter)
• Olivier Gaudin (linkedin, twitter)
• Freddy Mallet (linkedin, twitter)
• Cedric Munger (linkedin)

The whole team can also be followed on Twitter at http://twitter.com/SonarSource.

Contributors

Franck Arnulfo for EC2 infrastructure (blog, twitter), Jene Jasper, Julien Lancelot (linkedin, twitter), Guillaume Smet for PostgreSQL support, Guillaume Boucherie.

Sponsors

	The Sonar project was incepted by Hortis, a swiss IT consultancy company.
	Since November 2008, SonarSource is the main contributor on the Sonar project
	Sonar is hosted at Codehaus that provides the development infrastructure (Subversion, JIRA, Confluence, Bamboo, …).

Thanks

Sonar benefits from Atlassian Clover license and Balsamic Mockups.