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Be around. Be social. Participate in the help and maintainers' mailing lists. Find things about Octave you don't like, and start thinking about how to fix them. Many people who now contribute to Octave first spent several years helping in the mailing list before they started to delve into the code. A good way to learn Octave is to understand the problems other people are having with it, so being helpful in the mailing lists not only helps Octave as a whole, but it also prepares you to be a better Octave contributor. | Be around. Be social. Participate in the help and maintainers' mailing lists. Find things about Octave you don't like, and start thinking about how to fix them. Many people who now contribute to Octave first spent several years helping in the mailing list before they started to delve into the code. A good way to learn Octave is to understand the problems other people are having with it, so being helpful in the mailing lists not only helps Octave as a whole, but it also prepares you to be a better Octave contributor. | ||
We also need help with this wiki and the manual, important tasks. The documentation is easier to patch, so you can discuss improvements to it and | We also need help with this wiki and the manual, important tasks. The documentation is easier to patch, so you can discuss improvements to it and submit patches. Or just edit this wiki! Accurate bug reporting is also very useful. Find and report bugs, making an attempt to diagnose them. Eventually, you will also know how to fix them. | ||
Also look at our [[Projects]] and [[GSoC Project Ideas]] if you need specific inspiration for coding tasks that we would like to get done. | Also look at our [[Projects]] and [[GSoC Project Ideas]] if you need specific inspiration for coding tasks that we would like to get done. | ||