Get Involved

Just as every other Free Software project, GQ invited you to join the development community and give something to the world as all the other famous hackers did.
Please don't ever forget while hacking: you are not alone. If you're stuck, don't hesitate to ask other developers they want to help you. Developers are lazy people, if you offer to do some work, they will support you for not having to perform that task on their own.

What to do?

There's a lot of things you can do, here's a small proposal for current ways of getting something to do:

you have an idea yourself

And you're still reading this page? Go ahead, file a request (to make sure the development fits into the GQ mission and that nobody already does what you want to do).

read the TODO file

This file is the most persistent list of jobs that we have, unfortunately it's not very structured and not easy to read. So there's two easier sources left.

fix a bug

This one is quite easy. Just take a bug, work on GQ until the bug doesn't appear anymore. You can even discuss bugs with other developers or check very easily that you're not doing something that another developer is already busy with.
If you want to start with something simple, just take one of the [starter] bugs. They should be quite easy to solve.

take an open job

The Jobs page gives a very good impression of the whole GQ mission. Some things are easy, others are not.

How to do this?

GQ is hosted by SourceForge. You can easily check out the source code, browse through the bugs etc. But if you're hacking on GQ, please make sure you are using the latest GQ source code from subversion.

Coding Style

To keep the code readable and consistent, we should try to keep to a common coding style. A good description for the desired coding style can be found at the Imendio Developer Pages.