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How can I help?

Really anything that helps improving Koha! :) I_want_to_help

Some ideas

• Browse the bugs
  • Check old open bugs to see if they are still relevant to newer versions
  • Weed out duplicate bugs if you see two that are the same
  • Add more information to make squashing bugs easier
    • Maybe you have seen the bug and know how to reproduce?
    • Maybe you have a good workaround to help in the meantime?
• Comment on bugs:
  • Librarians especially, we need you to help us with bugs that are 'In Discussion' and share your thoughts and workflows.
  • Give feedback on new features and help us figure out how things should work before they become part of Koha
• Test patches, comment on them or even sign them off (more info in resources below)
• Fix, update, or just pretty up the wiki?
• Any questions? Talk to us on IRC!

Some helpful resources

• BugZilla: This is where we file all bugs and enhancements for the community - you should create an account here first. With that you can edit/comment/create bugs, or just browse and see what is going on
• Sandboxes: These are test environments that can be used to test open bugs. All you have to do is fill out a simple web form and voila! Everything is setup like magic for testing and sign off
• Find patches for GBSD
• Ways of running koha for development
  • KohaDevBox: For the slightly more experienced you can use kohadevbox to install and run your very own Koha development environment in a virtual machine. Download, set a few variables, and run one command to get things running
  • koha-testing-docker: For the slightly more experience you can use koha-testing-docker, a self contained docker installation of Koha to test and work on bugs.
  • If you are using your own Koha git or gitified installation, these might be helpful: Sign off on patches | Sign off on a pushed branch
  • Setting Up Koha in Virtual Environment + Using That as a Development Environment
• Bug-enhancement-patch Workflow
• Version Control Using Git
• Git bz configuration

Friendly Guides

The following folks have volunteered to help guide testers through all aspects of the sign-off process -- setting up sandboxes or kohadevbox, configuration of git-bz, doing sign-offs with git. and answering general sign-off questions. If you're looking for a guide, simply ask in the #koha irc channel, or use /msg <<irc nick>> (e.g. /msg oleonard ) for a private chat.

• cait
• oleonard
• tcohen
• ashimema

(it should be noted that everybody in the community is friendly and helpful; feel free to ask in #koha if you have questions, *someone* will be happy to help, even if those above aren't available).

Tools

• Dashboard - the goal is to get your name as high up in the "Monthly Scoreboard" as possible :-)
• bug_status.pl shows the number of bugs that need to be signed off, and the colour will change as the numbers gets lower (60+ = red, 50-60 = yellow, 29-0 = green)
• progress.pl shows the changes of status per date (updated in real time, timezone: UTC) Want to play with the data? Here they are, in JSON format.
• Bugzilla Bar Chart shows how many bugs are in the various states of the QA process