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dev:howto:contribute [2013/02/02 16:04] – [Contribution Process] jannisdev:howto:contribute [2013/02/02 16:06] – [Purpose of this document] jannis
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-At the time of writing (FOSDEM 2013), the entry barrier for contributing to Xfce is substantially higher than it could be. There are several hurdles that people have to figure out themselves. There is no easily accessible list of low-hanging fruit or tasks to get started with. Also, there is no definedtransparent contribution process. Our aim should be to make obvious to interested developers how they can contribute and what they can contribute.+At the time of writing (FOSDEM 2013), the entry barrier for contributing to Xfce is substantially higher than it could be. There are several hurdles that people have to figure out themselves. There is, for example, no easily accessible list of low-hanging fruit and tasks to get started with. Also, there is no well-defined and transparent contribution process. Our aim should be to make it obvious to interested developers how they can contribute and what they can start with.
  
-The purpose of this document is to come up with a concept for providing low-hanging fruit to the developer community and a contribution process that removes uncertainty about what the right way/format of contributing code is. This document is only about contributing code since other areas, like [[http://xfce.org/getinvolved/translation|translations]], are already well documented.+The purpose of this document is to come up with a concept for providing low-hanging fruit to the developer community and a contribution process that removes uncertainty about what the right way/format of contributing code is. 
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 +This document is only about contributing code since other areas, like [[http://xfce.org/getinvolved/translation|translations]], are already well documented.
  
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