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Join the Community

There are a lot of ways to get involved in ADempiere development. For example, you could write code, write documentation, find bugs, fix bugs, design logos, draw icons, manage websites or do promotional work. The ADempiere project welcomes anyone who wants to help.

If you are not sure where to start, read below, it provides an overview of the different aspects of ADempiere development, and of the ADempiere development community.

News and Mail Sources

The general direction of the ADempiere project is determined by those who do the work (there are no single high level plans for what ADempiere will look like in the future). If you want to find out what is currently happening, then there are a number of sources you might like to consider:

Mailing Lists Probably the best way to find out what's going on in ADempiere development. Archives are available here.

Commit Log Receive notification of SVN commits in areas that interest you.

The Dot The ADempiere news site.

Getting started with coding

Getting started at coding in ADempiere is a matter of finding something to fix, and fixing it. You may want to consult the Adempiere Developer Corner to help find what you are looking for; once you have fixed something, create a patch and upload it to the Adempiere Patch Tracker. If you do that a few times, the Commit_Committee will consider grant you Commit Access to the source repository.

ADempiere documentation work is very important, and can always use more developers to write new documentation, review and proofread current documentation, and to do translations and localization.

Getting started with usability

There are a large number of modules within ADempiere, and not all of them have a maintainer dedicated to managing bugs and generally helping out with all the issues associated with turning some working code into a polished application.

If you are interested in helping out with ADempiere, but don't know where to start, becoming a member of the ADempiere Quality Team might appeal to you (see QA Process for more information). Note that you do not need any programming skills to become involved.

Of course, you can become involved in bug hunting without being part of the ADempiere Quality Team (just create yourself an sourceforge user account and start searching / sorting through the bugs). Again, you don't have to have programming skills - it helps the programmers enormously just to have a scenario that allows a bug to be consistently reproduced.