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FreeOrion is built and maintained entirely by volunteers. Help from people with a wide variety of skills is needed to complete the project. | FreeOrion is built and maintained entirely by volunteers. Help from people with a wide variety of skills is needed to complete the project. | ||
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Content creation is also requested. Individual [[techs.txt|techs]], [[buildings.txt|buildings]], and [[specials.txt|specials]] are helpful, as well as discussion of the general thematic nature and structure of the [http://freeorion.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=15 tech tree] and other content. | Content creation is also requested. Individual [[techs.txt|techs]], [[buildings.txt|buildings]], and [[specials.txt|specials]] are helpful, as well as discussion of the general thematic nature and structure of the [http://freeorion.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=15 tech tree] and other content. | ||
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Testers may also be helpful, for bug reporting (see below) or help with bug fixing, even if not coders themselves. If able to compile on various platforms to which programmers do not have access, and willing to assist a programmer with resolving bugs that appear only on your system, noting this in a bug report or on the forums is encouraged. | Testers may also be helpful, for bug reporting (see below) or help with bug fixing, even if not coders themselves. If able to compile on various platforms to which programmers do not have access, and willing to assist a programmer with resolving bugs that appear only on your system, noting this in a bug report or on the forums is encouraged. | ||
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Revision as of 17:22, 3 January 2008
FreeOrion is built and maintained entirely by volunteers. Help from people with a wide variety of skills is needed to complete the project.
Contents
General
Project Structure – Community Rules
Design
The easiest way to contribute when new to the project is to join in brainstorming discussions on the forums. It's recommended to familiarize oneself the established an in-progress design Requirements and the most recent version of the program downloaded or compiled from SVN.
Content creation is also requested. Individual techs, buildings, and specials are helpful, as well as discussion of the general thematic nature and structure of the tech tree and other content.
The design prodess is discussed on the Game Design page.
Programming
There is plenty of programming work available for interested coders.
Anyone able to compile and provide downloadable binaries for various OSes or distributions are particularly needed. MacOSX is a particular priority.
Testers may also be helpful, for bug reporting (see below) or help with bug fixing, even if not coders themselves. If able to compile on various platforms to which programmers do not have access, and willing to assist a programmer with resolving bugs that appear only on your system, noting this in a bug report or on the forums is encouraged.
General programming information is available on the Programming page.
Bug Reporting
Bug reporting is appreciated. Even better are patches to fix new or existing bugs.
