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== How do I get started doing Dreamwidth development? ==

The best place for anybody to start out for Dreamwidth development is [irc://irc.dreamwidth.org/dw_kindergarten #dw_kindergarten], where there people willing to mentor who can figure out where your abilities are at and how to best apply them.

People wanting to work on a provided development environment should look into requesting a [[Dreamhacks|Dreamhack]].

If you have the means and desire to install your own development environment, there are resources in the [[:Category:Dreamwidth Installation|Dreamwidth Installation category]].  The original LJ Server documentation is [http://www.livejournal.com/doc/server/ here].  You might also find the [http://wiki.ljcode.org/ LJCode wiki] useful.

== Basic guides ==

To browse the Dreamwidth code, you can look at the [http://hg.dwscoalition.org/ Mercurial repository]; the main parts of the code you will be interested in are in <tt>dw-free</tt>. To see the changes being made to the Dreamwidth code, look at <dwcomm>changelog</dwcomm>, which automatically posts commits.

You can find information on how to keep your code updated on [[Dev Maintenance]], information on programming style on [[Dev Programming Guidelines]], information on finding things in [[Dev Finding Things]], and information on submitting patches on [[Dev Patches]].  There is a [http://bugs.dwscoalition.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&long_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&emailassigned_to1=1&emailtype1=substring&email1=&emailassigned_to2=1&emailreporter2=1&emailqa_contact2=1&emailcc2=1&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&chfie comprehensive bug list] as well as other useful info on [[Bugzilla]].  See [[Development]] for a more complete reading list, or look through the pages in [[:Category:Development]].

Developers should check out the documentation on [[Design]] as well.

There is also [[Beginning dev checklist]] which has some useful information.

[[Category: Development]]