Contribution Guide
All people that know Java are able to contribute to the Sloeber code. Sloeber is an Eclipse Plugin and therefore we use OSGi as our module model.
The first thing you do is to build the Sloeber SDK by forking the Sloeber/arduino-eclipse-plugin repo and building a local SDK. To be able to build the SDK you need to install git and maven.
- Install git
- Install maven
Fork the arduino-eclipse-plugin from the Sloeber organization and clone it localy.
- git clone
- cd arduino-eclipse-plugin
- mvn verify -P <platform>,oxygen -DSDK=true
Replace <platform> for any of win32, win64, mac64, linux32 or linux64
After building, the product is available in
arduino-eclipse-plugin/io.sloeber.product.sdk/target/products
Move this to a short named directory e.g. c:/apps/sloebersdk or /opt/sloeber-sdk and run the sloeber-sdk executable.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE SDK DOES NOT INCLUDE SLOEBER.
After launching the SDK, open the Git perspective and add the Sloeber repository you just cloned to the repositories view.
Then import the following projects.
- io.sloeber.ui.nl1
- io.sloeber.application
- io.sloeber.core
- io.sloeber.product
- io.sloeber.ui
- io.sloeber.feature
Switch to the Java perspective and find the sloeber.product file in the product project. Open the product file with the product editor and on the first tab, find the "launch the product" link and click that.
Sloeber will now start with the SDK PLUS all the bundles in the workspace. Any changes you make in the workspace will be included in this launch.
Pick any of the issues in the Sloeber Github Issues database and make a new branch out of it. Fix and test your code locally, push it to your remote and do a pull request.