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diff --git a/doc/contribute.mdwn b/doc/contribute.mdwn index 08b7bb4734..049d93d578 100644 --- a/doc/contribute.mdwn +++ b/doc/contribute.mdwn @@ -25,12 +25,20 @@ Many bugs are also filed without enough information to reproduce the problem, and need to be tagged moreinfo and a comment posted asking the submitter for details. +Once a bug is confirmed to be reproducible, it becomes a lot easier to fix. +So it's very helpful to highlight such bugs. + Joey spends a lot of time dealing with this kind of bug triage. If you can -take the time to pick a bug that is not marked as "confirmed" or "moreinfo" +take the time to pick a bug that is not tagged as "confirmed" or "moreinfo" from the list of [[bugs]], try to reproduce it and follow up either confirming that the problem exists, or asking the submitter for more info, you'll make Joey more productive! +You can add and modify tags by editing the bug's page with this wiki code: + + \[[!taglink confirmed]] + \[[!taglink moreinfo]] + ## code contributions [[download]] the source code, [[build|install/fromsource]] it @@ -40,9 +48,8 @@ If you know Haskell, git-annex has lots of Haskell code that could be improved. See the [[coding_style]] and have at it. If you don't know Haskell, git-annex has many other coding opportunities. -You could work to improve the Android port (Java etc) or improve the -Javascript and CSS of the git-annex webapp, or work on porting libraries -needed by the Windows port. +You could work to improve the Javascript and CSS of the git-annex webapp, +or work on porting libraries needed by the Windows port. To send patches, either include the patch in a [[bug|bugs]] report (small patch) or put up a branch in a git repository containing your changes. |