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====== How To Contribute ====== | ====== How To Contribute ====== | ||
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===== Easy Tasks ===== | ===== Easy Tasks ===== | ||
- | What if you want to contribute but you don't know what? Willing to get involved surely means you are happy about the project, it means you like it and want to help around it. You can start by chatting with people on IRC, that's where a lot of people start, or write reviews and blog entries, or you can take the ropes and maintain something. You can also act positive and motivate the Xfce developers crew. | + | What if you want to contribute but you don't know what? Willing to get involved surely means you are happy about the project, it means you like it and want to help around it. You can start by chatting with people on Matrix (#xfce and #xfce-dev), that's where a lot of people start, or write reviews and blog entries, or you can take the ropes and maintain something. You can also act positive and motivate the Xfce developers crew. |
- | Updating the FAQ is always tedious, but not when you are maintaining it. Helping on the forum from time to time can be helpful. Doing some cool screenshots and presenting them around. Or doing some attractive artwork. You can fill pages on this wiki. You can propose [[web_site_wish_list|wish lists]] for this website. | + | Updating the FAQ is always tedious, but not when you are maintaining it. Helping on the [[http://forum.xfce.org/ |
There is not always something to do, but always a little at different times ^_^ | There is not always something to do, but always a little at different times ^_^ | ||
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Translating Xfce will give it the possibility to be accepted by more people. You don't want software that is in English, do you? ;-) | Translating Xfce will give it the possibility to be accepted by more people. You don't want software that is in English, do you? ;-) | ||
- | Xfce uses a [[http://translations.xfce.org/ | + | Xfce uses a [[https://docs.xfce.org/contribute/ |
If you are new to translations everything is explained [[translations|here]]. | If you are new to translations everything is explained [[translations|here]]. | ||
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That was one thing, another thing is to test the application and report bugs. For writing bug reports there are some minimum steps to take into account. It must be informal, if it is a bug it must be easy to reproduce and if it is a feature request keep in mind that it must be sane not insane :-) Testing the application after a new release is helpful, but testing the application you like from git helps the developers to fix bugs before doing a release and it might get you into knowing the code actually. | That was one thing, another thing is to test the application and report bugs. For writing bug reports there are some minimum steps to take into account. It must be informal, if it is a bug it must be easy to reproduce and if it is a feature request keep in mind that it must be sane not insane :-) Testing the application after a new release is helpful, but testing the application you like from git helps the developers to fix bugs before doing a release and it might get you into knowing the code actually. | ||
- | So the first place to let developers know about what you think and miss from their application is on the [[http://foo-projects.org/ | + | So the first place to let developers know about what you think and miss from their application is on the [[https://mail.xfce.org/ |
===== Fix Bugs ===== | ===== Fix Bugs ===== | ||
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Well the obvious contribution is to write code of course! Send us patches, write your own feature and contribute it, etc. There is no big picture here. You can attach patches on [[http:// | Well the obvious contribution is to write code of course! Send us patches, write your own feature and contribute it, etc. There is no big picture here. You can attach patches on [[http:// | ||
- | If you lack an idea for a good feature to write, pick up on Bugzilla, it's full of bugs :-o But not all of them are things to fix, some of them are enhancement propositions, | + | If you lack an idea for a good feature to write, pick up on Bugzilla, it's full of bugs :-o But not all of them are things to fix, some of them are enhancement propositions, |
===== Getting a git account ===== | ===== Getting a git account ===== | ||
- | If you want to get your new Xfce plugin/ | + | If you want to get your new Xfce plugin/ |
+ | You also need to [[https:// | ||
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+ | Our git workflow/ |