Čo v prípade, že chcete prispieť, ale neviete čím? Ochota zapojiť sa určite znamená, že ste spokojní s projektom, znamená to, že sa vám to páči a chcete pomôcť s vecmi okolo neho. Môžete začať rozprávaním sa s ľuďmi na IRC - tam začína veľa ľudí, alebo písať recenzie a blogy, alebo si môžete vziať povraz a niečo vyrobiť. Môžete tiež pozitívne motivovať tím vývojárov Xfce.

Aktualizácia FAQ (často kladených otázok) je síce vždy zdĺhavá, ale nie keď sa udržiava. Pomoc na tomto fóre môže byť z času na čas užitočná. Robiť nejaké skvelé snímky obrazovky a prezentovať ich okolo seba. Alebo robiť nejaké atraktívne umelecké diela. Môžete vyplniť stránky na tejto wiki. Môžete navrhnúť niečo do zoznamu prianí pre tento web.

Nie vždy je tu čo robiť, ale vždy po troche v rôznom čase

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 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 here.

The first thing to do when you are willing to contribute is to write to the developers, let them know you like their application and what you miss in it, simply give some of your thoughts. You will be surprised by the number of people never doing this! Giving feedback takes a short time and it can always be useful for both the end-users and the developers.

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 xfce users mailing list. It's public and every one can read and comment it, but you can also send them private messages, they all put their email addresses in the applications you use. Interesting topics will usually be asked to be put on the bug tracking system which brings us to the second place that is on Bugzilla. You need to create an account in order to create new bugs, and when you do you can select the component and the severity between “normal” and “enhancement”.

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 Bugzilla.

If you lack an idea for a good feature to write, pick up on Bugzilla, it's full of bugs But not all of them are things to fix, some of them are enhancement propositions, check this report of Xfce core components.