Developers Welcome!¶

CHIRP is open source software and contributions are welcomed! Submissions are accepted via GitHub .

Resources¶

• Get the code at GitHub. See PR Guidelines.
• Developers/Add_a_Radio - Overview of how to add a driver
• Developers/ToneModes - Explanation of the way CHIRP handles tone modes
• Developers/DriverNotes - Notes about complex driver situations and how to handle them
• Get a new Python3 development environment setup with Developers/Python3Environment
• You may wish to join the developers mailing list
• chirp-legacy OUTDATED Windows Python2 development environment instructions: LegacyDevelopersWin32Environment

How you can help¶

• Test new changes and releases
• Triage bug tickets
• Write or update documentation
• Find and fix bugs
• Add or extend support for new radio models
• Add features to the UI

Translating CHIRP¶

New Languages¶

If you want to help translate CHIRP into another language, please follow these steps:

1. Create a new issue for the language and include the language code. Here is a helpful list.
2. Someone will create an empty template .po file and attach it to your issue
3. Translate the file. Generally, poedit is the best way to do this. Be sure to fill out the translator meta-details.
4. Translate the welcome screen, by creating a copy of the source image chirp/share/welcome_screen.xcf, using Gimp.
5. Attach the resulting translated .po file and the new xcf image to the ticket
6. A developer will check them over and then submit them for inclusion

Updating an existing language¶

If you want to update a translation, grab the latest from the repo, update it and attach it to an issue for a developer to include. Use poedit to update the translations