Re: Contributing to IPFire by working on bugs

[Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>]

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Hello Stephan,

> On 20 Mar 2020, at 15:25, List <list(a)md5collisions.eu> wrote:
> 
> Hello *,
> 
> I was hoping to be able to start contributing to IPFire by resolving
> some bugs.

Yes! A very warm welcome. We got loads of those for you to find and fix :)

> How do newcomers do that ?
> 
> Do I need a bugzilla account ?
> 
> (https://bugzilla.readthedocs.io/en/5.0/using/creating-an-account.html)
> 
> The documentation requires me to visit the homepage and create a new
> account. Which is not possible.

We have a central account system that everything is using. Hence direct registration in Bugzilla is disabled. Unfortunately the documentation is default and cannot be easily changed.

If you did not already do so, please register on people.ipfire.org: https://people.ipfire.org/register

https://blog.ipfire.org/post/the-new-ipfire-community-portal

And on what to work on, here is a starter:

https://blog.ipfire.org/post/good-first-bugs

> It is pretty much plausible that I am just being blind. Could you help
> me out here ?

Please get in touch if you have any further questions!

Best,
-Michael

> 
> I'd really appreciate it.
> 
> Thanks for you time.
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Stephan
> 
>