It may well be that you haven't considered contributing to any open source project, let alone the IntelliJ Scala plugin. However, if you use IntelliJ IDEA to write Scala code, it's actually a very reasonable thing to do. Here's how you can benefit from contributing to the plugin code base. There's a common misconception about attracting contributors where the process is viewed as "a way to get developers for free." Nothing could be further from the truth, at least in our case. While the Scala plugin code is open source, there are currently 10 people in the Scala team at JetBrains working on

We know that you have been waiting for SBT project support in IDEA too long. That's why we make SBT plugin nightly builds available even before an actual release of the plugin.Features Though work on SBT plugin is still in progress, the following features are already available: SBT project import. Incremental project model updating. Auto-import (on project definition changes). Editing of .sbt files (with full highlighting, auto-completion and navigation). Many more features are on the way (see the roadmap below). Installation SBT plugin is currently available for ID