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= How to help improving MythTV =
 
= How to help improving MythTV =
  
You to can help by contributing to MythTV development and documentation. Besides developers we need people to help maintaining and improving the documentation (like the Wiki and manual). So you can join us making MythTV even beter than it already is.
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Did you know you to can help contributing to MythTV?
  
Everyone has one or more skills to help improving MythTV. You just have to remember that MythTV is a combination of technical and non-technical efforts. Independent from your skills, there is always something you can do to help make MythTV even beter than it is right now.
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You to can help by contributing to MythTV development and documentation. Besides [[Development guide | developers]] we need people to work on manuals and documentation, layout and design, wiki pages or translations. Join us making MythTV even beter than it already is.
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'''Everyone has one or more skills to help improving MythTV'''. You just have to remember that MythTV is a combination of technical and non-technical efforts. Independent from your skills, there is always something you can do to help make MythTV even beter than it is right now.
  
 
Look at the list below and choose how you can help best.  
 
Look at the list below and choose how you can help best.  

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How to help improving MythTV

Did you know you to can help contributing to MythTV?

You to can help by contributing to MythTV development and documentation. Besides developers we need people to work on manuals and documentation, layout and design, wiki pages or translations. Join us making MythTV even beter than it already is.

Everyone has one or more skills to help improving MythTV. You just have to remember that MythTV is a combination of technical and non-technical efforts. Independent from your skills, there is always something you can do to help make MythTV even beter than it is right now.

Look at the list below and choose how you can help best.


Mainaining the Wiki

Required skills: non technical

Of course, you can help writing and editing material right here on the Wiki.

  • Help completing pages that are marked incomplete. You can find an complete list of this here.
  • Review and update existing pages
  • Look around and improve the wiki structure. By improving the Structure you help people finding the right information and makes or easier to keep things simple, organized and up-to-date.

If you are not familiar with using a wiki than you can learn it in no-time here.


Improving the manual

Required skills: non technical

There's a project underway to create a User Manual which is starting to pick up steam. If you know something about MythTV, you can help extending and updating the manual. You can find the manual here.

If you are not familiar with using a WIKI than you can learn it by reading Wiki help


Promoting MythTV

Required skills: non technical, writing

Help us bringing MythTV to the rest of us by writing articles, references, talking in forums, etc.


internationalizing/translating

Required skills: non technical, language

If you have language skills, you can work on internationalizing/translating the product. This is needed in the core system as well as the modules.


Testing MythTV

Required skills: non technical, some understanding of MythTV

Beta testing new features is always appreciated. One does not need to be a developer to pull code from SVN and compile it - but you do need to be aware that going to SVN code implies a certain responsibility on the user's part to debug their own problems, file useful bugreports, and be able to downgrade or upgrade accordingly to fix issues.


Creating and improving MythTV themes

Required skills: some technical knowlegde

If you are interested in creating a new theme, read the theme development guide section for how to get started.


Building your own plugin

Required skills: Programming knowlegde

You can find more information about how you can build your own plug-in for MythTV (or convert and existing program)in the Plug-in_developers_guide


Developer documentation

Required skills: Some understanding of programming

Documentation often lags behind features. The mythtv-commits mailing list provides information on what has been coded into the system recently and updating documentation here or in the official docs on mythtv.org is a welcome contribution.


Software developing

Required skills: light to heavy understanding of programming

Off course there is enough software development to do. You can find out all about this in the Development guide. Variating from debugging, optimizing to developing new features.