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									Contribution &amp; Guidelines - UCPros Forum				            </title>
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                        <title>Contributing Guide</title>
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                        <pubDate>Sat, 19 Oct 2019 10:17:41 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[ContributingFirst off, thank you for considering contributing to the project. It&#039;s people like you that will make IOS Utils such a great tool.Where do I go from here?The project is divided i...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-size: 14pt">Contributing</span></p><p>First off, thank you for considering contributing to the project. It's people like you that will make IOS Utils such a great tool.</p><p><span style="font-size: 14pt">Where do I go from here?</span></p><p>The project is divided into several sections for each tool:</p><ul><li>Issues report - this is where people are reporting issues that they might have had</li><li>Features &amp; Enh - this where UC engineers can ask for new features</li><li>Contribution topics - this is where the above requests and reports come down to individual tasks</li></ul><p>You can go straight to the contribution topics and choose one to work on.<br />Just make a comment that you are on it so others would know.</p><p>You can help to design a solution, a user interface or just write a help doc, it's really up to you.</p><p>Here are some more word that describes what we do here</p><p><span style="font-size: 14pt">What it means to contribute</span></p><p>If you’re a new open source contributor, the process can be intimidating.<br />What if you don’t know how to code? What if something goes wrong?</p><p>Not to worry! There are all sorts of ways to get involved with an open source project, and a few tips will help you get the most out of your experience.</p><p>You don’t have to contribute code<br />A common misconception about contributing to open source is that you need to contribute code.<br />In fact, it’s often the other parts of a project that are most neglected or overlooked.<br />You’ll do the project a huge favor by offering to pitch in with the following types of contributions:</p><p><span style="font-size: 14pt">Do you like to design?</span></p><ul><li>Restructure layouts to improve the project’s usability</li><li>Conduct user research to reorganize and refine the project’s navigation or menus</li><li>Put together a style guide to help the project have a consistent visual design</li><li>Create art for t-shirts or a new logo 🙂</li></ul><p><span style="font-size: 14pt">Do you like to write?</span></p><ul><li>Write and improve the project’s documentation</li><li>Curate a folder of examples showing how the project is used</li><li>Start a newsletter for the project, or curate highlights from the mailing list</li><li>Write or video tutorials for the project, like this</li><li>Write a translation for the project’s documentation</li></ul><p><span style="font-size: 14pt">Do you like organizing?</span></p><ul><li>A forum branch to organize the project is on its way</li><li>Suggest how to organize the forum branches</li><li>Link to duplicate issues, and suggest new issue labels, to keep things organized</li><li>Go through open issues and suggest closing old ones</li><li>Ask clarifying questions on recently opened issues to move the discussion forward</li><li>Do you like to automate?</li><li>Find an open issue to tackle</li><li>Ask if you can help write a new feature</li><li>Automate project setup</li><li>Improve tooling and testing</li><li>Do you like helping people?</li><li>Answer questions about the project</li><li>Answer questions for people on open issues</li><li>Help moderate the discussion boards or conversation channels</li><li>Do you like helping others code?</li><li>Review code/feature/automation on other people’s submissions</li><li>Write tutorials for how a project can be used</li><li>Offer to mentor another contributor</li></ul><p>Open Source is a community effort.<br />Clearly, open source is more than just code.<br />Successful open source projects include code and documentation contributions together with conversations about these changes.</p><p>Offering a place for people to report problems, ask questions, and suggest fixes or improvements are also a core part of any project’s success.</p><p><span style="font-size: 8pt">some content is based on github.com/github/opensource.guide used under the CC-BY-4.0 license</span></p><p> </p>]]></content:encoded>
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                        <title>How to report issues</title>
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                        <pubDate>Sat, 19 Oct 2019 10:14:33 +0000</pubDate>
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