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commit 306ac6ffacdaafae595b5fc532dddc91f0813eab Author: Russell Dickenson (phayz) <russelldicken...@gmail.com> Date: Thu May 28 21:55:08 2009 +1000 Documentation - spelling and grammatical changes modified: contribute.txt diff --git a/docs/contribute.txt b/docs/contribute.txt index dff3b2b..e7ad442 100644 --- a/docs/contribute.txt +++ b/docs/contribute.txt @@ -1,28 +1,43 @@ = How to contribute -If you find our work and effort worth it, please consider donating. - This is not limited to monetary contributions, every donation of a - limited valuable resource (including your time, knowledge) is appreciated. - Depending on your resources, there are many ways to help us. +If you appreciate our work, please consider contributing. Below are examples +of ways in which you can help the Frugalware project. If you want to help in +a way that's not described here, please tell us of your idea in an email to +the Frugalware users' mailing list, or add an entry to the Frugalware forums. + + +== Donations of money + +Donations of money are welcome and will be used to cover costs such as domain +name registration, hosting costs (hardware, bandwidth etc). If you want to +donate, please use the "Donation" link on the Frugalware home page. == Translation -A comprehensive and multi-language documentation is very important. - With linguistic and no programming knowledge and some time, you can - help us create (by asking) and maintain different translations. +Comprehensive, multi-lingual documentation is very important to us because we +want Frugalware to be available to as many people as possible. If you have the +required linguistic knowledge, you could help translate various pieces of work. + These include our own applications, documentation, web site etc. == Application packaging -In the http://bugs.frugalware.org[Bug Tracking System], there are -feature requests for some packages. The process of making packages is -well documented, and with some GNU/Linux experience, it isn't difficult. -But it takes time, so submitting well-packaged software is a great way -to help us and save our time. +In the http://bugs.frugalware.org[Bug Tracking System], are requests for +packages, from Frugalware's users. The process of making packages is well +documented in the http://frugalware.org/docs/stable/index-devel +[Frugalware Developer Documentation], and with some GNU/Linux experience, you +could contribute in that way. Existing package maintainers are always available +to help you, especially if you're new to packaging. == Developing -Of course, any skilled help is appreciated in developing core systems, like -contributing code to pacman-g2 or the setup. +Frugalware has several of its own applications, including: +* An ncurses installer; +* A GUI installer (fwife); +* A GUI package management tool (gfpm); +* A command-line package manager (pacman-g2); +* A GUI runlevel manager (gservice). + +Help in further developing and enhancing these applications is welcome. == Donating hardware @@ -34,15 +49,14 @@ process within a specific architecture. We usually update our artwork (background images, grub splash, desktop manager themes, window manager splashes and so on) for each release. If you are skilled -to help, you're welcome. :) +in this area, you're welcome to join the artwork team. == Support If you have time and knowledge, monitor the forums, read the mailing list -posts, hang around on IRC and try to answer the questions, solve the occured -problems. +posts, hang around on IRC and try to answer peoples' questions. == Find bugs -If you find bugs, you can help with submitting well-written bugreports, see the +If you find bugs, you can help by submitting well-written bug reports, see the Reporting Bugs section for more info. _______________________________________________ Frugalware-git mailing list Frugalware-git@frugalware.org http://frugalware.org/mailman/listinfo/frugalware-git
