Participate to the development
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There are different ways to participate to the Dr. Geo development: code,
bugs report, documentation or even simply using the software and submitting
examples files produced with it. We also have differents tools to keep
in touch: mailing list and instant message through IRC. If unsure contact
me at 
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Mailing list
To subscribe to the Dr. Geo mailing list, follow the link lists.ofset.org and subscribe yourself to the server. The archive is also available at this place (Once authenticated).
Instant message/IRC
To exchange in real time, we are using the channel #ofset at the IRC serveur irc.freenode.net. To connect to it, use a software as Xchat, Kchat or even the chatzilla IRC client from Mozilla.
Reporting bugs
To track bugs we use the OFSET tracking system at SourceForge.
To report a bug/feature request, you can visit the Dr. Geo bugs report page.
Basically, at the top of your bug report you must write the two lines:Package: drgeo Version: 0.9.13
and report separate bugs in separate bug reports. If you are not using the latest version of Dr. Geo, please upgrade; the bug may have gone away.
The development effort
The bugs tracking system lists a set of bugs and features request. Those elements are interesting indications for the ones interested in participating to the Dr. Geo development.
The documentation effort
The Dr. Geo user manual is written with the help of HyperLateX, a LaTeX sub set. This tool lets us have two versions: a first one on-line and a second one in paper form.
Therefore, to participate to the documentation and translation effort of the user manual you will have to work on LaTeX/HyperLaTeX source document. Using this format is relatively simple and help can be found from Dr. Geo mailing list if necessary.
To get the source documentation, two options:
- Download the source archive (it comes with HyperLatex source and a HTML compiled version,
- From the CVS repository of the the sources manual. Through this mean you always get the latest version.
To participate to the documentation effort, please contact the development team through the mailing list. Also you can read the README document from the source repository. It explains the used methodology to synchronize the translations.
CVS repositories
The software source code
Please read Get Dr. Geo.
The user manual source
To fetch it, do the follozing:cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ofset login cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ofset co drgenius-man
It is also possible to read on-line the CVS repository from http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ofset/drgenius-man.
