# Help &krusader;

Here is your opportunity to contribute to the &krusader; project. There are things that need to be done, but cannot be done by us. If you feel you can help, do not hesitate to contact us; every OpenSource can use some help. Please also check the contribute donate &URL; page on our website for more recent information. Thanks!

To get contributor account and commit changes to &krusader; by yourselves you should follow this tutorial. Some useful advices on using &kde; Git can be found here. It is a good practice to use merge requests for the non-trivial patches.

Documentation

Help is needed (we are looking for documentation writers) for keeping the &krusader; documentation up to date. The draft explanation of new features is done by the developers on the krusader-devel mailing list, but we need editors to add this information in the handbook. By playing with the new features these editors can give valuable information to the developers for making the new features even better!

Bug triaging

Sometimes bugs are not well reported, that can be mended. In order to free developers, so that they can have more time to ⪚ improve &krusader;'s source code and add features: bug reports can be confirmed, or closed. A list of steps to repeat the problem can be made. Some potential causes can be discarded.

Code testing

Before a new &krusader; release is made... many testers are needed to report or confirm problems. If you like to be on the cutting edge of &krusader;, and help by the way, consider reporting!

Adding comments

If you are reading &krusader;'s source code, and you think that adding comments is a good idea, that's welcome! It's very probable that your comments will save time to someone else later, accelerating &krusader;'s development.

Tutorial writing

Tutorials are very useful for people who are starting to use a program, like &krusader;.

English texts reviewing

If you can review English texts, and spot writing mistakes, your comments are welcome!

Solve doubts about &krusader;

Some &krusader; users can write about their doubts, ⪚ in mailing lists. Solving their doubts is very valuable!

&krusader; Extensions

Please upload your favourite extensions at store.kde.org, so that they become available for the &krusader; community. Maybe they will be shipped by default with &krusader; at the next release :-)).

Spread the Word &krusader;

If you like &krusader;, let people know! Write articles and reviews for internet or print publications. Encourage your friends to give &krusader; a try. Participate in forums to help others in the community.

&GUI; Translations

&krusader; is available in many languages, but sometimes translations do need an update or translations to new languages are always welcome. If you are interested in translating the &krusader; &GUI;, please contact the &kde; translation team of your language.

Documentation Translations

If you are interested in translating this &krusader; documentation, please contact the &kde; translation team of your language.

Donations

Actually, we had not considered donations, until users asked us for a way to Donate to the project. &krusader; is, and always will be free, in all the terms of the GNU Public License.

Packagers

We are always in need of packagers for different distro rpm's, deb's, &etc; All help is welcome.

FAQ

If you have a question that is missing in the FAQ, we would like to hear it.

Rate &krusader;

On some websites you can rate software, if you like &krusader; go to one of these sites and rate &krusader;, thanks.

Others

Feedback, Bug reports, patches, &etc; are always welcome! An open source project's greatest strength is derived from getting user feedback.