Arbit - next generation project tracking
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:Author: 		Kore Nordmann
:Date:			Sun, 04 Apr 2010 20:19:44 +0200
:Revision: 		8
:Copyright:		CC by-sa

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Participate
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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.

__ http://tracker.arbitracker.org/arbit/documentation/view/Start

Getting in contact
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You can get in contact with other arbit developers and users using on of the
common communication channels:

IRC
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The arbit developers are currently using an `IRC channel`__ on the FreeNode__
IRC network.

__ irc://irc.freenode.net/#arbit
__ http://freenode.net

A tutorial describing how to use IRC for chatting with the developers can be
found here: http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/irctutorial.html

Mailing lists
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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?

Personal email
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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.

Current developers
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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)

__ http://kore-nordmann.de/
__ http://seld.be/
__ http://manuel-pichler.de/
__ http://arne-nordmann.de/
__ http://westhoffswelt.de/
__ http://muh-die-kuh.de/
__ http://schlitt.info/opensource.html
__ http://tobiastom.name/