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title: Contributing

date: 2017-09-19T02:00:55.000Z

anchor: contributing

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Pidgin is a huge project with a ton of things to be done, even if you're not a

coder. Below is a short list of things you can do to help get involved!!

* Triage the issue tracker

* Try to reproduce described bugs. If you can find an easy way to

reproduce, leave a comment to explain how to do it.

* Find/mark/close duplicates. Seriously, even just one or two duplicates

found and properly marked is a huge help to our backlog!

* Suggest patches be turned into pull requests, or bring patches to the

attention of the core dev team.

* Help users

* IRC: #pidgin on freenode

* XMPP (formerly Jabber): devel@conference.pidgin.im

* Mailing Lists:

* support@pidgin.im

* devel@pidgin.im

* Proofread the documentation--this is a really, really easy way to start!

* Help facilitate translators and translations

* via [transifex](https://www.transifex.com/pidgin/pidgin/)

* help translate this repo

* other suggestions?

* Convert wiki pages to markdown for inclusion in this repo.

* Walk the links on [ThirdPartyPlugins](https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ThirdPartyPlugins)

and mark broken ones as such. This is another really easy way to start!

* Participate in discussion on IRC, XMPP, and/or the Mailing Lists.

For the coders out there:

* Find/fix build warnings

* Find/fix bugs on your own or via the issue tracker

* Participate in design discussions

* Add cool features!