In category: ← Communication / Social Networks and Forums

About Simple Machines Forum

Free, professional grade software package that allows you to set up your own online community within minutes.

Github stats:

Commits: 15,088
494
262
Latest commit: Jan 14, 2023

Deploy this app to Linode with a free $100 credit!

Languages/Platforms/Technologies:

Lincenses:

BSD-3-Clause

More about Simple Machines Forum

SMF

This the development repository for Simple Machines Forum. The software is licensed under BSD 3-clause license.

Contributions to documentation are licensed under CC-by-SA 3. Third party libraries or sets of images are under their own licenses.

Notes:

Feel free to fork this repository and make your desired changes.

Please see the Developer's Certificate of Origin in the repository: by signing off your contributions, you acknowledge that you can and do license your submissions under the license of the project.

Branches organization:

release-2.1 - is the branch where updates for version 2.1 are applied

How to contribute:

fork the repository. If you are not used to Github, please check out fork a repository.
branch your repository, to commit the desired changes.
sign-off your commits, to acknowledge your submission under the license of the project.
It is enough to include in your commit comment "Signed-off by: " followed by your name and email address (for example: Signed-off-by: Your Name <youremail@example.com>)
an easy way to do so is to define an alias for the git commit command, which includes -s switch (reference: How to create Git aliases)
send a pull request to us.

How to submit a pull request:

If you want to send a bug fix for version 2.1, send it to the branch release-2.1

Security matters:

Lastly, if you have a security issue you would like to notify us about regarding SMF - not just for 2.1, but for any version - please file a security report on our website: https://www.simplemachines.org/about/smf/security.php

This will enable the team to review it and prepare patches as appropriate before exploits are widely known, which helps keep everyone safe.