Pidgin is a huge project with a ton of things to be done, even if you’re not a coder. Below is a short list of things you can do to help get involved!!

• Triage the issue tracker
  • Try to reproduce described bugs. If you can find an easy way to reproduce, leave a comment to explain how to do it.
  • Find/mark/close duplicates. Seriously, even just one or two duplicates found and properly marked is a huge help to our backlog!
  • Suggest patches be turned into pull requests, or bring patches to the attention of the core dev team.
• Help users
  • IRC: #pidgin on freenode
  • XMPP (formerly Jabber): devel@conference.pidgin.im
  • Mailing Lists:
    • support@pidgin.im
    • devel@pidgin.im
• Proofread the documentation–this is a really, really easy way to start!
• Help facilitate translators and translations
  • via transifex
  • help translate this repo
  • other suggestions?
• Convert wiki pages to markdown for inclusion in this repo.
• Walk the links on ThirdPartyPlugins and mark broken ones as such. This is another really easy way to start!
• Participate in discussion on IRC, XMPP, and/or the Mailing Lists.

For the coders out there:

• Find/fix build warnings
• Find/fix bugs on your own or via the issue tracker
• Participate in design discussions
• Add cool features!