CHIRP

h1. Developers Welcome!

CHIRP is open source software and contributions are welcomed! If you are interested in helping out, join the developers mailing list and ask questions!

h2. Resources

• Join the "chirp_devel mailing list":http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_devel
• Get the code: http://d-rats.com/hg/chirp.hg
• Join us on Freenode, in channel #chirp
• New users to mercurial may want to read the well-written "reference book":http://hgbook.red-bean.com/read/
• Developers/Process
• Developers/ToneModes
• Developers/Win32Environment
• Developers/LinuxEnvironment

h2. 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

h3. Translating CHIRP

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

# Create a "new issue":http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/issues/new for the language and include the language code. Here is a "helpful list":http://www.science.co.il/Language/Codes.asp.
# Someone will create an empty template .po file and attach it to your issue
# Translate the file. Generally, "poedit":http://poedit.net/ is the best way to do this. Be sure to fill out the translator meta-details.
# Attach the resulting translated .po file to the ticket
# A developer will check it over and then submit it for inclusion