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+<!--
+<?xml version="1.0" ?>
+<!DOCTYPE chapter PUBLIC "-//KDE//DTD DocBook XML V4.2-Based Variant V1.1//EN"
+ "dtd/kdex.dtd">
+-->
+
+
+<chapter id="contribute">
+<title
+>Contributing</title>
+
+<qandaset>
+<qandaentry>
+<question>
+<para
+>How can I contribute to &kde;?</para>
+</question>
+<answer>
+<para
+>&kde; is a free software project that lives from voluntary contributions. Everybody is encouraged to contribute to &kde;. Not only programmers are welcome. There are many ways in which you can help to improve &kde;:</para>
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem
+><para
+>Test the software.</para
+></listitem>
+<listitem
+><para
+>Send in bug reports. For more information on this, see <link linkend="bug-report"
+>How do I submit a bug report?</link
+>.</para
+></listitem>
+<listitem
+><para
+>Write documentation or help files. You can get some information by visiting the <ulink url="http://i18n.kde.org/doc/"
+>&kde; Editorial Team Home Page</ulink
+>.</para
+></listitem>
+<listitem
+><para
+>Translate programs, documentation, and help files. For more information on this, you should visit <ulink url="http://i18n.kde.org"
+>The &kde; Translators' and Documenters' Web Site</ulink
+>.</para
+></listitem>
+<listitem
+><para
+>Draw nice icons or compose sound effects. You can visit the <ulink url="http://artist.kde.org/"
+>&kde; artists page</ulink
+> to find out more.</para
+></listitem>
+<listitem
+><para
+>Write articles and books about &kde;. If you want to help spread the word about &kde;, simply send an email to <email
+>kde-pr@kde.org</email
+>. This will get you in touch with the &kde; public relations volunteers.</para
+></listitem>
+<listitem
+><para
+>Program new &kde; applications. Please refer to <xref linkend="programming"/> for more information.</para
+></listitem>
+<listitem
+><para
+>Of course, sponsors are also welcome. :-)</para
+></listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
+<para
+>There are several places to look for more information if you want to get involved in the development. The first step is to subscribe to some of the <ulink url="http://www.kde.org/mailinglists/"
+>mailing lists</ulink
+>. You will soon see something that can be improved or added.</para>
+</answer>
+</qandaentry>
+
+<qandaentry>
+<question id="bug-report">
+<para
+>How do I submit a bug report?</para>
+</question>
+<answer>
+<para
+>There is a bug tracking system available at <ulink url="http://bugs.kde.org"
+>http://bugs.kde.org</ulink
+>. The system features a wizard to submit new bug reports and a list of all known bugs.</para>
+<para
+>The easiest way to submit a bug is to select <menuchoice
+><guimenu
+>Help</guimenu
+><guimenuitem
+>Report Bug...</guimenuitem
+></menuchoice
+> from the menu bar of the application with the bug. This will open a small dialogue box with a link to the bug tracking system. Please make sure to follow the instructions of the bug reporting wizard.</para>
+</answer>
+</qandaentry>
+
+<qandaentry>
+<question id="programming">
+<para
+>I want to program for &kde;. What should I do first?</para>
+</question>
+<answer>
+<para
+>Everybody is encouraged to develop software for &kde;. What you should do first depends strongly on your experience, &eg; whether you have already learned C++ or have experience with the &Qt; toolkit and so on.</para>
+<para
+>To get into &kde; programming, you will need some basic tools: <application
+>automake</application
+>, <application
+>autoconf</application
+>, and <application
+>egcs</application
+>. You should look to <ulink url="http://developer.kde.org/"
+>http://developer.kde.org/</ulink
+> for more tips.</para>
+<para
+>Another excellent resource for learning &kde; programming is the &Qt; online tutorials. These are installed along with &Qt;. To view them, open <filename
+>$<envar
+>QTDIR</envar
+>/doc/html/index.html</filename
+> in &konqueror; and bookmark it. The tutorials can be found under "Using Qt". The source code for each lesson can be found in the <filename class="directory"
+>$<envar
+>QTDIR</envar
+>/tutorial</filename
+> directory.</para>
+<para
+>There is, however, one thing that everybody interested in programming for &kde; should do: <emphasis
+>subscribe to the developers mailing list</emphasis
+>. To subscribe, you have to send an email to <ulink url="mailto:kde-devel-request@kde.org"
+>kde-devel-request@kde.org</ulink
+> with the subject <userinput
+>subscribe <replaceable
+>your_email_address</replaceable
+></userinput
+>. <important
+><para
+>Please read <link linkend="subscribe"
+>How to subscribe/unsubscribe to these lists</link
+> carefully. Everything said there applies to the development list as well.</para
+></important
+></para>
+</answer>
+</qandaentry>
+
+<qandaentry>
+<question>
+<para
+>How do I get access to the <acronym
+>CVS</acronym
+>?</para>
+</question>
+<answer>
+<para
+>The &kde; project uses <acronym
+>CVS</acronym
+> to develop the core parts of the software. Usually, when you have changed one of the parts (&eg; fixed a bug), and you want to commit this change, the best way is to create a patch against a current snapshot and send this patch to the developer/maintainer of the respective program.</para>
+<para
+>If you are doing this more or less regularly, you can ask Stephan Kulow, <email
+>coolo@kde.org</email
+> for direct access to the <acronym
+>CVS</acronym
+> server. But be aware that more users will slow down <acronym
+>CVS</acronym
+> access for all developers, so we want to keep the number of people with direct <acronym
+>CVS</acronym
+> access reasonably small. But feel free to ask!</para>
+</answer>
+</qandaentry>
+
+<qandaentry>
+<question>
+<para
+>I am just curious. Can I have read-only access to the <acronym
+>CVS</acronym
+>?</para>
+</question>
+<answer>
+<para
+>Yes. It is possible to get read-only access to the <acronym
+>CVS</acronym
+> repository with <application
+>cvsup</application
+> or <application
+>cvs</application
+> utility. You can find more information about how to set up <application
+>cvsup</application
+> for the &kde; repository from <ulink url="http://developer.kde.org/source/cvsup.html"
+>How to use <application
+>cvsup</application
+> to get &kde;</ulink
+>.</para>
+<para
+>In addition, anonymous <acronym
+>CVS</acronym
+> service is also available. To find out more about how to set up and use anonymous <acronym
+>CVS</acronym
+>, please see <ulink url="http://developer.kde.org/source/anoncvs.html"
+>here</ulink
+>.</para>
+</answer>
+</qandaentry>
+
+<qandaentry>
+<question>
+<para
+>Are there any <application
+>cvs</application
+> mirror sites for &kde;?</para>
+</question>
+<answer>
+<para
+>Yes. The main &kde; server is normally very busy. Please take a look at <ulink url="http://developer.kde.org/source/cvsupmirrors.html"
+>http://developer.kde.org/source/cvsupmirrors.html</ulink
+> and <ulink url="http://developer.kde.org/source/anoncvs.html"
+>http://developer.kde.org/source/anoncvs.html</ulink
+> for the list of available mirrors.</para
+>  
+<para
+>Once you have selected a new <application
+>cvsup</application
+> server, simply replace <screen
+> 
+*default host=cvs.kde.org
+</screen
+> with <screen
+> 
+*default host=cvsup.your.new.host
+</screen
+> in your <application
+>cvsup</application
+> script.</para>
+<para
+>The instructions to change the anoncvs server can be found on <ulink url="http://developer.kde.org/source/anoncvs.html"
+>http://developer.kde.org/source/anoncvs.html</ulink
+>, too. </para>
+</answer>
+</qandaentry>
+
+<qandaentry>
+<question>
+<para
+>How do I go about translating &kde; programs into my native language?</para>
+</question>
+<answer>
+<para
+>Look at the <ulink url="http://i18n.kde.org"
+>The &kde; Translators' and Documenters' Web Site</ulink
+> to see whether your program is already translated (most are). Otherwise you will find information there on how to do it yourself.</para>
+</answer>
+</qandaentry>
+</qandaset>
+</chapter>
+
+