How to Contribute

There are lots of ways to get involved and help out with the Propel project:

• Write Creole+Propel drivers for your RDBMS.
  Propel supports several databases currently, but we're always interested in adding more to that list. If you have access to an unsupported database and a little time to help out, this is of great value to Propel.
• Help us spot & fix bugs.
  We know there are some bugs in Propel. Certainly there are areas that have received much less testing than others. (e.g. the complex object model stuff including inheritance, abstract classes.) Report bugs using the issue tracker that is integrated with this website (see Reporting Bugs for more information)
• Write documentation.
  We can always use better documentation. Currently the user guide is written using XHTML and there are a few XSLT stylesheets for building the TOC. It's easy to edit using a WYSIWYG editor or even just plain text editor and we can create PDFs using htmldoc. We're open to suggestions for new documentation formats, but of course primarily we're eager for any documentation contributions.
• Contribute to the Wiki.
  Of course you can also contribute to this site, for example by adding FAQs, WTFs or HowTos. Send a message to the development mailing list? to request an account.
• Help plan and design the next version.
  The initial version of Propel is based quite closely on Torque. This is for no other reason than the fact that Torque works well, and is well suited for PHP environment (unlike, e.g., Hibernate which would have big performance issues on PHP). For our next versions we'd like to figure out what works & doesn't work about this model. Browse this section of the website, and especially the Planning? place to read ideas or add your own!