Get Involved

We want you! There are a variety of ways to get involved. To start, download Chandler Desktop and Sign up for a Chandler Hub account.

Getting in touch...

Subscribe to a Mailing List

The Chandler design and development communities use mailing lists as their primary communications channel. You should subscribe to which ever mailing lists you find interesting. Here are some of the more popular lists. Chandler Users | Announcements | Design
Desktop Development | Server Development

Join the IRC channel

OSAF hosts Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channels for its various projects. These channels allow you to interact with members of the Chandler community in real-time. The Chat on IRC page has directions for joining our IRC channels.

Specific ways to get involved...

If you need help...

Send questions to: Chandler Desktop and Chandler Hub: Chandler Users
Chandler Server: Server Development

If you have found a bug in Chandler...

Please check the list of known issues for the current release to see if your bug has already been reported. If it has not, please follow these directions to report your bug.

If you want to request a new feature...

Follow these instructions for reporting a bug and set the severity of the bug to "enhancement".

If you see errors on this wiki...

You are welcomed to create a wiki account and edit the page to include a fix. If you're not comfortable with that, you can let us know about the error at wikimaster@osafoundation.org

For Developers...

If you have fixed a bug...

If you have fixed a bug in Chandler and want to have your fix incorporated, follow the instructions on the PatchLifeCycle page.

If you want to help improve Chandler via reporting bugs or writing functional or unit test suites...

Visit the Community Testing Project. Our goal is to involve the whole community in making sure that Chandler is thoroughly tested and robust.

If you are interested in writing a Chandler Desktop plugin (extension)...

Visit the Developers Wiki and read the Sample Parcel Tutorial.

If you want to know more about the details of Chandler's implementation...

Visit the Developers Wiki and read the Chandler Architecture Overview: Desktop | Server

If you want to help fix bugs...

We have a list of bugs that would make good first projects. If you have ported Chandler Desktop to run on a platform that OSAF does not support, please let us know! Send a note to the Desktop Development list.

If you are looking for some easy projects to ramp up...

Here are a few ideas for small projects. Feel free to add your own projects to this list. If you have an idea that is not on that list, send a message to the appropriate Chandler development mailing list: Desktop Development | Server Development