doc/CONTRIBUTING.md

   1 # How can I help?
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   3 You can help in numerous ways. This document should give you an overview of what is possible and how you can get involved.
   4 It will **not** give you all information you need to successfully contribute to avoid content duplication between this document and our [wiki](https://wiki.ipfire.org/).
   5 Instead, it should guide you to the right places to look for further information.
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   7 ## Development
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   9 All information is available in the [development section](https://wiki.ipfire.org/devel) of our wiki. The following is a very short overview about the most important topics.
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  11 ### Contact
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  13 We use a mailing list development@lists.ipfire.org for our communication. For the list archive and registration, see [here](http://lists.ipfire.org/mailman/listinfo/development)
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  15 ### Source Code
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  17 We use our own infrastructure for code hosting, located under git.ipfire.org. The GitHub repositories are **only** mirrors of the main repositories located under git.ipfire.org.
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  19 ### How to build the distribution?
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  21 In order to contribute, you certainly need to build the distribution at some point. See [here](https://wiki.ipfire.org/devel/ipfire-2-x/build-howto) for a long guide how to do that.
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  23 ### Bugs
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  25 We have a bug tracker located [here](https://wiki.ipfire.org/devel/bugzilla). Further information can be found in our [wiki](https://wiki.ipfire.org/devel/bugzilla).
  26 We do **not** use GitHub for tracking bugs.
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  28 ### Contribute changes to the source code
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  30 First: **we do not accept GitHub pull requests!** We are working with patches which are sent to our mailing list development@lists.ipfire.org .
  31 This process might be a bit tricky in the beginning. That's why you can find more information how to do this [here](https://wiki.ipfire.org/devel/submit-patches)
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