We're so glad you're thinking about contributing to a NIEM open source project! If you're unsure about anything, just ask -- or submit the issue or pull request anyway. The worst that can happen is you'll be politely asked to change something. We love all friendly contributions.
We encourage you to read this project's CONTRIBUTING policy (you are here), its LICENSE, and its README.
This project constitutes a collaborative work. Government employees and members of the public are encouraged to improve the project by contributing.
To help make the Movement tool more modular, we've broken the tool into three distinct repositories:
- Front-end for the web app and UI
- Back-end for any API requests, specifically the JSON Schema transformation
- Solr for storage and querying of NIEM data elements
To make a contribution to one of these repositories, visit the links above where you will find more detailed "Getting Started" and technical information specific to each repository.
In the spirit of open-source tooling, we have provided a Scrum board that allows users to keep track of Movement’s issues and enhancements. Anyone can submit a new issue for the tool for something they would like to see added or a bug. Once reviewed by the program office, issues will be added to the Scrum board's backlog. Developers and tool contributors can then address issues from the backlog and track their status using the Scrum board—providing an Agile approach to development and complete transparency to users.
This project is in the public domain. All contributions to this project will be released under the MIT License. By submitting a pull request, you are agreeing to comply with this license.
All comments, messages, pull requests, and other submissions received, including this GitHub page, may be subject to archiving requirements.
To protect your privacy and the privacy of others, do not include your full name, phone numbers, email addresses, social security number, case numbers or any other sensitive personally identifiable information (PII) in your comments or responses.
NIEM does not moderate comments on GitHub prior to users posting, but reserves the right to remove any materials that pose a security or privacy risk.