Recent changes
Wednesday November 04 2026
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Reviewing and being reviewed Updated Markdown page
How review works in the Exponential community - why 7x does many review rounds, how to get through them, squash and rebase, how community members can review others' pull requests, and how to give and take feedback…
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Sharing extensions and themes with the community Updated Markdown page
How community members share their own Exponential extensions, themes and site packages - publishing in your own repository under the GPL, Composer and Packagist, Projects, versioning and permanent tags, and when handing…
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Testing releases as a community member Updated Markdown page
How community members test the Exponential development line before a release - a safe test installation on SQLite, what to test for your own setup, how to describe a regression, and how hosts and agencies can test…
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The CLA explained for community members Updated Markdown page
What the Exponential Foundation and 7x Contributor Licensing Agreement (version 1.1.0) means for a community member - a copyright assignment for code contributed to the Exponential kernel - who needs it, how to sign…
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Ways to contribute Updated Markdown page
Every way a community member can contribute to Exponential, compared by the skills and time each needs and the difference it makes - from confirming a bug to maintaining an extension.
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Your first contribution Updated Markdown page
Three small first contributions to Exponential, step by step - a corrected help page through Edit on GitHub, a well-made bug report through the Report an error page, and a first pull request with the right commit…
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Helping others in the community Updated Markdown page
The landing page of the helping-others part of the community section - answering questions, welcoming newcomers, mentoring, writing tutorials and posts, and keeping the help accurate.
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Answering questions in the community Updated Markdown page
How to answer questions in the Exponential forums and chats - understand the goal, ask for the environment, answer with a source, check AI-generated answers, protect privacy, send security problems to the private…
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Keeping community help accurate Updated Markdown page
How community members keep the help they give accurate - where the facts live, checking claims against the software and the repository, dating numbers, correcting mistakes openly, and saying "not documented" when that…
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Mentoring in the community Updated Markdown page
How experienced community members mentor newcomers through their first Exponential contributions - choosing a task, setting up, the first pull request, review rounds, and handing over - with a four-week plan and…
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Welcoming newcomers to the community Updated Markdown page
How community members make a newcomer's first contact with Exponential a good one - first replies, the five pages to point to, people coming from other systems or from the old product, and newcomers who are not…
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Writing tutorials and posts for the community Updated Markdown page
How community members turn what they learned about Exponential into tutorials, forum write-ups and posts others can find - choosing the place, a structure that works, testing every step, licensing your writing, and…
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How the community works Updated Markdown page
The landing page of the how-it-works part of the community section - who decides what, how releases happen, how security reports are handled, the licenses, recognition and credit, and how the work is funded.
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Funding the community Updated Markdown page
Where the money and time that keep Exponential alive come from, the two organizations you can sponsor and how they differ, partnership as a way for companies to fund the project, and how individuals with any budget can…
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How Exponential releases happen Updated Markdown page
How a change travels from a pull request to a tagged Exponential release, why published tags never change, how version numbers count, which lines are supported, and where community members can help along the way.
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How security reports are handled Updated Markdown page
What community members do when they find or hear of a security problem in Exponential - the private reporting path, what to include and leave out, what happens next, and how to behave in public channels until a fix is…
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Licenses in the community Updated Markdown page
The licenses a community member meets in Exponential - the GNU GPL version 2 or later for the code, the GNU FDL 1.3 or later for the documentation, the CLA for kernel contributions - and what each means when you use…
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Recognition and credit in the community Updated Markdown page
How Exponential credits the people who contribute - authorship in the Git history, the documentation's copyright notice, credit for other projects, sponsor recognition by tier, partner levels and points - and what is…
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Who decides in the Exponential community Updated Markdown page
Which decisions about Exponential are made by whom, according to published sources - the project, development, merges, releases, security, conduct, the partner program and the roadmap - what is not published, and how…
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Joining the community Updated Markdown page
The landing page of the joining part of the community section - where people meet, how to introduce yourself, how to ask a question that gets answered, how to get help step by step, how to stay informed, and the code of…