Contributing
Contributing
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It is very easy to contribute to the project. All you have to do is click on the ‘Get Involved’ tab at the top of the webpage (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/community/) of where you can choose how to contribute (there are 4 options):
- Donate-giving money to the project
- Users-report bugs or glitches with the project
- Translators-translate Audacity into different languages
- Developers-write Audacity-improving it
To become a translator or developer, all you have to do is download the source code . Once you have downloaded the source code, you can edit Audacity!
The website does explain on how to take part for each role. Below is an example on how to become a developer for Audacity:
To become a developer: taken from http://audacity.sourceforge.net/community/developers
CVS
You can get the latest Audacity stable or development code from our CVS repository.
Browse the source code online
Type this at the command line to check out the latest stable source code from CVS: (1.2)
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@audacity.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/audacity checkout -r AUDACITY_1_2 audacity
Or type this at the command line to check out the latest beta/development source code from CVS: (1.3)
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@audacity.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/audacity checkout audacity
Although the website doesn’t make the project look interesting but text does! The website has very interesting things to say about Audacity which could make the newcomer interested in the project and want to get involved.