Arbit aims to provide a decent modern extensible multi project tracking tool. Features start with issue tracking and wiki and do not stop before code analysis and translation management.
We would love to welcome you in the community around arbit, no matter what your gender, skills, social or political interest are. You can help us with arbit by documenting, developing the core and modules, graphical work and improving the user interface or discovering bugs. Introduce yourself and we will find something you enjoy working on, which matches your skills and interests.
Arbits documentation is managed inside a wiki, which can be found in the project tracker. The issues, discovered bugs and desired features can also be found there. Even arbit has complete API documentation, documentation providing you a general overview on arbit is rare, but we would be happy to discuss ideas and contributions with you.
You can get in contact with other arbit developers and users using on of the common communication channels:
The arbit developers are currently using an IRC channel on the FreeNode IRC network.
A tutorial describing how to use IRC for chatting with the developers can be found here: http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/irctutorial.html
There is currently only one mailing lists for commit messages, development- and user discussions, which is located at arbit-dev@lists.arbitracker.org. You can subscribe to the mailing list by sending an email to arbit-dev-subscribe@lists.arbitracker.org.
We will try to make the mailing list archives available, too, but they aren't yet. Maybe this could be your first module for arbit?
You can also mail the developers personally, using the mail address user@arbitracker.org, where "user" should be replaced by their SVN account name. Discussions regarding development, design, documentation should be kept in public, so that everybody can participate.
Arbit is developed and designed by a number of developers with different backgrounds. This is is a plain list of all current contributors, ordered by their commit count:
Kore Nordmann (kore)
Jordi Boggiano (seldaek)
Manuel Pichler (mapi)
Arne Nordmann (norro)
Jakob Westhoff (jakob)
Hans-Christian Otto (hco)
Tobias Schlitt (toby)
Tobias Tom (tobias)