Recently it was asked on the forums as to how to submit patches to the Umbraco core for consideration into future Umbraco releases.
Here is a quick step-by-step guide for those who want to go about hacking merrily away with all that open-source-loveliness.
- If you're not already registered on Codeplex, do so here.
- If it's a new feature rather than a bug fix, then create a new issue here, which once saved will give you a work item number.
- Once you've downloaded the Umbraco source (latest version here, under branches/rb403 - you need to download the whole source tree though, which is 100MB+) and written your modification to the umbraco core, you then create a patch here and upload the modified file along with a detailed description of the modification you've made, and associate it with the work item # you created in step 2.
Job done. Umbraco core will then review your suggestion and associated core changes and either approve or decline them. If it's a popular feature then post your link to this forum so other forum users can vote for it if they feel it's a good idea (my work item for getting Umbraco to work in Medium Trust has five votes, and you can see the associated patches I've submitted in the Codeplex patch list).