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title: "Contributing"

date: 2019-01-11T04:05:09+00:00

anchor: "contributing"

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

* find/mark/close duplicates

* suggest patches be turned into pull requests, or bring patches to the attention of the core dev team.

* helper users

* irc: #pidgin on freenode

* xmpp: devel@conference.pidgin.im

* mailing lists

* support@pidgin.im

* devel@pidgin.im

* proofread the documentation

* help facilitate translators

* 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 link on [ThirdPartyPlugins](https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ThirdPartyPlugins) and mark broken ones as such.

* participate in discussion in irc, xmpp, 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!