How to Participate
What skills are necessary?
Any skill is useful for the SMESERVER project.
If you are a developer of any kind, we will find something for you to do. Even if you think that you have no Linux skills you can still help. You can tell us if and how you understand the wiki pages, or more precisely, we would like to know what pages you don't understand. Thanks to the insights of new users we can continuously enhance readability of the wiki. Visit Communicate to learn how to contact us.
If, on a top of that, you can write, you are invaluable. We need a lot of articles. There are thousands of Linux programs around, and more are released every day. In addition, new versions of existing applications are released. There is need for a lot of hands to write about them and to keep reviews current.
Be part of the Wiki Team
As long as you edit anything on the wiki you are de facto member of the Wiki Team.
To make edits, you need to log in to the wiki. In order to do this, you will need to open an account. The information that SMESERVER requires for opening an account is very limited and easy to do.
After you log in, you will see a toolbar at the top of the page that is always available. There is a link in the toolbar that is labeled with your username. This takes you to your "personal page". Use this page to introduce yourself and don't be shy. Write a word or two about your interests, especially those related to SMESERVER and Linux. If nothing else, tell us how you learned about SMESERVER.
Help Other Users
There is an active community in the forum that help all levels of SMESERVER users. Please have a look at the forum for an overview.
Suggest New Features or Software
Visit the BUGTRACKER NEW FEATURE RELEASE (NFR) page and add your suggestion:
Only software with an OSI-compliant open-source license will be added to the SMESERVER project.
Improve or Localize a Wiki
This page is built with MediaWiki. The concept of a Wiki is that anybody may add and modify content. Please see the SMESERVER Wiki Project page if you want to contribute to our Wiki. On wiki help, find a quick tutorial if you're unfamiliar with Wikis. Please make sure that you follow the style guide. For more information about translation and localization please look at the translation guide-how to localize a wiki.
Review or Write Documentation, Manuals, and Articles
Visit the User Manual Documentation page to contribute or read articles and manuals. If you've got instructions, solutions to common problems, neat tips and tricks, or just a good way to explain something, we'd love to hear from you.
Test SMESERVER and Report Bugs
You can help improve SMESERVER by finding and reporting bugs. Our bug tracking system, Bugzilla, is used for all SMESERVER Linux products. If you have never written a bug report, please refer to Bug Reporting FAQ to learn what kinds of information make the report most useful.
Localize SMESERVER specific applications
Translations of other applications specific to SMESERVER are needed.
Develop Patches and Packages
The most obvious way, for programmers, to participate in the development of SMESERVER is to post a patch as a suggested solution to an existing bug in Bugzilla. Each package has a maintainer, who will contact you to discuss your proposed solution. You may want to join our development mailing lists before you start coding in order to discuss your plans and coordinate with other developers.
For more information about getting source code and building your own packages, read the SMESERVER DEVELOPER MANUAL.
If you would like to build your own applications on SMESERVER, read the SMESERVER DEVELOPER MANUAL to learn how to package your own software.
This page is based on the OpenSUSE project wiki. All content from the source is made available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License version 1.2 ("GFDL").