Get involved#

How to get in contact with SCORE#

If you want to get into contact with SCORE, these are your primary entry points:

Project Mailing List:

score-dev@eclipse.org

Architectural Discussion:

#score-project-channel-public

General Information / Alignment regarding SCORE as a basis for distributions & products:
Contact one of the project leads of SCORE https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/automotive.score/who

The technical HOWTO regarding involvement into SCORE is described here: eclipse-score/score

How to get involved into SCORE#

The only way to influence SCORE is TO CONTRIBUTE. Everybody can contribute – SCORE is open.

Active Contributions to the SCORE project are the basis for getting involved. The SCORE Project works according to the Eclipse Project Handbook and has named and elected project leads and committers (see https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/automotive.score/who). Direction of the SCORE project is discussed and decided in the project lead circle, technical direction is created and prediscussed in the tech lead circle. Meeting notes are transparent via the SCORE github organization. (see orgs/eclipse-score#discussions)

We aim to build a safety ready full stack architecture, where components fit to each other in automotive grade Software Quality and performance. To achieve this, we follow a strict feature roadmap and architecture and a rigid software development process (currently under development).

Contributions to the SCORE project must therefore follow the technical direction of the project and the SCORE architecture. All work in SCORE will therefore follow a Contribution Request Guideline. Features on the roadmap of SCORE are defined, Contribution Requests create the basis for individual contributions from within the SCORE project and also from the outside.

You can make proposals for new features or architectural building blocks besides the active contribution requests. Those will not by default be part of the next release of SCORE, because the SCORE release roadmap will strictly comply with the contribution request structure. We plan to have the initial contribution request structure available in the SCORE GitHub until Q1 / 2025.

We plan to incorporate a staging area for such contributions, but in the initial phase of the SCORE project (until end of 2025) the focus will be primarily on building a valid 1.0 release. Feel free to reach out via the communication channels above.

If you think about your contribution to SCORE, the Feature Request overview is the best place to start.

Based on successful code contributions to the SCORE roadmap, further steps in involvement (like becoming a committer) will be handled according to the rules of the Eclipse Foundation Project Handbook. We value real code based collaboration and will judge new potential contributors and committers mainly on the validity of their work. Active and sustaining contributions are the basis for the ability to shape SCORE.

Making active code contributions via the contribution request process described in the SCORE project handbook.