Join the Salt!
There are many ways to participate in and communicate with the Salt community.
Salt has an active IRC channel and a mailing list.
Join the salt-users mailing list. It is the best place to ask questions about Salt and see whats going on with Salt development! The Salt mailing list is hosted by Google Groups. It is open to new members.
The #salt IRC channel is hosted on the popular Freenode network. You can use the Freenode webchat client right from your browser.
Logs of the IRC channel activity are being collected courtesy of Moritz Lenz.
The Salt code is developed via Github. Follow Salt for constant updates on what is happening in Salt development:
News and thoughts on Salt and related projects is often posted on Thomas' blog The Red45:
The official salt-states repository is: https://github.com/saltstack/salt-states
A few examples of salt states from the community:
If you want to help develop Salt there is a great need and your patches are welcome!
To assist in Salt development, you can help in a number of ways.
If you have a patch for Salt, please format it via git format-patch and send it to the Salt users mailing list. This allows the patch to give you the contributor the credit for your patch, and gives the Salt community an archive of the patch and a place for discussion.
This is probably the preferred method for contributions, simply create a Github fork, commit your changes to the fork, and then open up a pull request.
The goal here it to make contributions clear, make sure there is a trail for where the code has come from, but most importantly, to give credit where credit is due!
The Open Comparison Contributing Docs has some good suggestions and tips for those who are looking forward to contribute.