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This is an contributor guide to the SourceForge software as found on SourceForge. It explains how contributors should behave in order to see their patches accepted by the administrators of the project. It assumes that you've successfully installed the software as described in SourceForge-1.0.4 Installation Guide and that you're running your own instance as explained in SourceForge-1.0.4 Administrator Guide

You must understand that integration of any kind of modification to the code is subject to carefull reviewing by the SourceForge team. They will ultimately be responsible for bugs or security problems, not you. At present patches are processed using the patch manager and it is expected that very few people will have write access to the CVS repository.

At present no software roadmap exists and no regression tests are implemented and therefore the following rules cannot apply fully. Hopefully a contributor will make these two happen.

Etiquette

New functionalities

So, you're absolutely sure the functionality is not already implemented, that it's not a task in progress. You should now convince at least one person in the developper community that it's worth doing.

Describe what you're planning to do in the forum. Precisely describe algorithms, functionalities. Wait for approval from another developper. In the meantime you can implement what you have in mind.

Bug Fixing


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