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 ====== How To Contribute ====== ====== How To Contribute ======
  
 +<note important>Please see https://docs.xfce.org/contribute/start for an up to date documentation!
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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 [[http://forum.xfce.org/|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/|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.
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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/|Transifex]] platform for the translations. By registering in, you can join the translation team of your language or more and start to translate. You can meet with other people from the team and try to share the work together.+Xfce uses a [[https://docs.xfce.org/contribute/translate/start|Transifex]] platform for the translations. By registering in, you can join the translation team of your language or more and start to translate. You can meet with other people from the team and try to share the work together.
  
 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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 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://bugzilla.xfce.org/|Bugzilla]]. 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://bugzilla.xfce.org/|Bugzilla]].
  
-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, check this [[http://bugzilla.xfce.org/report.cgi?x_axis_field=bug_severity&y_axis_field=product&z_axis_field=&query_format=report-table&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&classification=Xfce&longdesc_type=allwordssubstr&longdesc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_severity=blocker&bug_severity=critical&bug_severity=major&bug_severity=normal&bug_severity=minor&bug_severity=trivial&bug_severity=enhancement&emailassigned_to1=1&emailtype1=substring&email1=&emailassigned_to2=1&emailreporter2=1&emailqa_contact2=1&emailcc2=1&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&format=table&action=wrap&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0=|report]] of Xfce core components.+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, check this [[https://bugzilla.xfce.org/report.cgi?x_axis_field=bug_severity&y_axis_field=product&z_axis_field=&no_redirect=1&query_format=report-table&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&longdesc_type=allwordssubstr&longdesc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&bug_id=&bug_id_type=anyexact&bug_severity=blocker&bug_severity=critical&bug_severity=major&bug_severity=normal&bug_severity=minor&bug_severity=trivial&bug_severity=enhancement&emailtype1=substring&email1=&emailtype2=substring&email2=&emailtype3=substring&email3=&chfieldvalue=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&j_top=AND&f1=noop&o1=noop&v1=&format=table&action=wrap|report]] of Xfce core components.
  
 ===== Getting a git account ===== ===== Getting a git account =====