Recent changes
Wednesday November 04 2026
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Distribution partners and resellers Updated Markdown page
For distribution partners - distributors, resellers and training centers - what the profile means, what can be distributed and resold under the GPL and GFDL, how to package offers honestly, and the obligations that come…
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Earning points through community work Updated Markdown page
How partners earn program points with work that helps the whole community - bug reports, forum answers, tutorials, articles, conference talks, translations and code - with a quality bar for each and a quarterly plan.
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Escalations and security issues Updated Markdown page
What partners do when a ticket is not moving or when a security problem is found - an escalation ladder, private disclosure to [email protected], what to tell customers, and how security fixes reach you.
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Extension and theme partners Updated Markdown page
For partners who build and publish extensions, themes and designs for Exponential - how this work fits the partner profiles, the ecosystem it joins, business models that respect the GPL, maintenance duties and how to…
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Feature requests and sponsored features Updated Markdown page
The ways a feature gets built for Exponential - a public request, your own pull request, paid development, a bounty or a sponsor tier - what each costs, what the sources say about sponsored features, and how to keep the…
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Filing bugs well Updated Markdown page
How partners file bug issues that get fixed - which tracker, how to reproduce on a clean install, what to include, how to remove customer data and secrets, how to follow up, and when to send the fix yourself.
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Governance: who decides what Updated Markdown page
Who decides what in the Exponential world as far as the sources say - the code, releases, security, the partner program, the Foundation's mission and funding - how partners can take part in decisions, and what…
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Hosting partner technical checklist Updated Markdown page
A technical checklist for hosting partners preparing a platform for Exponential 6 - PHP and extensions, php.ini, databases, engines, file permissions, cronjobs, caches, TLS and headers, backups, monitoring, updates…
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Hosting partners Updated Markdown page
For hosting partners - what the profile means, the hosting options the program names, what an Exponential host must provide (PHP, databases, engines, backups, security), services to offer and how hosting partners give…
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How to apply Updated Markdown page
The application process of the Exponential Partner Program step by step - preparation, the application form, review and decision times, buying the subscription, signing the agreement and activation - and what to do if…
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Implementation partners (IT and development) Updated Markdown page
For IT and development partners who build Exponential sites and applications - what the profile means, the skills a team needs, the documentation to master, services to offer, and how implementation partners give back.
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An implementation project playbook Updated Markdown page
A phase-by-phase playbook for partners delivering an Exponential project - discovery, content model, environment, build, content migration, quality gates, launch, handover and maintenance - with deliverables, checklists…
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Keeping customer sites current Updated Markdown page
How partners keep customer sites on maintained Exponential releases and supported PHP versions - an inventory, the support commitments of the project, maintenance contracts, upgrade cadence, and how to talk with…
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Handing leads over and back Updated Markdown page
A fair, documented process for handing leads between partners and 7x - the hand-off note, response times, ownership, conflicts between partners, returning a lead you cannot serve, and closing the loop.
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Licensing for partners: GPL code, GFDL documentation Updated Markdown page
What the licenses of Exponential mean for partners' business - the GPL v2 or later for code, the GFDL 1.3 or later for documentation, CC BY-SA for the program text - what partners may do, what they must do when…
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Logging your partner activity Updated Markdown page
How partner activity reaches the points system - what is tracked automatically, what you submit yourself, the state of the Partner Center, and a monthly routine with a template.
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Naming and brand rules for partners Updated Markdown page
How partners name the product, the organizations and their own partnership correctly in websites, proposals, contracts and social media - Exponential, 7x, the Exponential Foundation, the old name only as history - with…
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OEM and reselling Updated Markdown page
What the OEM resale opportunity of the partner program means, how partners can sell products based on Exponential within the GPL, examples of product shapes, the obligations of distributing free software, and what to…
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Onboarding checklist for new partners Updated Markdown page
A complete checklist for the weeks after a partnership is activated - accounts, channels, the partner page, support routines, development setup, brand assets, internal roles and the first contributions.
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Open source values in daily partner work Updated Markdown page
What the program's values Open, Sharing and Innovative mean in a partner's daily work - in projects, contracts, code, documentation, support and sales - with concrete habits and examples from the project itself.