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Getting Involved

Early in development, Reptile was largely driven by a single developer (Kevin Burton). This was necessary because we needed to avoid the level of communication and politics required in large Open Source projects. When one is trying to accomplish something different (revolutionary?), it is often necessary to do this work alone.

In order for Reptile development to move to the next level, we need to start recruiting new (external) developers.


What needs to be done

Testing of builds
The community has done a great job of giving feedback on this issue. Keep up the good work!
Feature suggestions
If you have any features that you think Reptile should incorporate, we would love to hear about them!
Volunteering for development

This is probably the most important. If you have the necessary development skills to implement new reptile functionality please think about helping out.

Specifically we are looking for developers familiar with any or all of the following:

  1. Java
  2. XML, XSLT, XPATH, SAX, SOAP, etc.
  3. Crypto (distributed identity and reputation work)
  4. HTTP and or Servlet development
  5. SQL and database design
  6. RSS and content syndication
  7. JXTA or other P2P technologies such as GNUTella or MNet

The best place to start would be the latest TODO file or bugzilla

The 'Developers' and 'Proposals' sections of the website also should help out new contributors.

Helping with documentation
This is one area where we would really like to get help. Developers always have a hard time documenting the projects they are working on. External help in this area would be very much appreciated.


Summary

Reptile needs your help! In order for us to move forward we need developers! If you like Reptile and want to see it move forward, please consider helping out.



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