Contributing
We are really happy that you are interested in contributing to JabRef. Please take your time to look around here. We especially invite you to look into our community members page where members introduce themselves.
I am not a programmer
Please use the "Edit on GitHub" link at the upper right corner. Then, follow GitHub's guide to edit files in other user's repository.
We encourage you to read about translating the JabRef user interface.
JabRef improves -- and Wikipedia pages should keep up!
Simply click on "Edit" (top right-hand tab).
Currently existing pages are:
Deutsch: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/JabRef
English: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JabRef
Español: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/JabRef
Français: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/JabRef
Italiano: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/JabRef
Русский: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/JabRef
Portuguese: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/JabRef
Svenska: https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/JabRef
Українська: https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/JabRef
If there is no page for you own language, you can easily create one.
Can I make a donation? How?
Donations keeps us going! You can use Paypal, Flattr, or bank transfers. Your institution/company can contribute too, through bank transfer for example. All details are provided at https://donations.jabref.org.
Our team consists of volunteers. To provide better support, we are currently trying to get a funded developer on board. Please consider donating money!
I am a programmer
Please head to https://devdocs.jabref.org/code-quality to learn about our current efforts to measure and improve code quality.
We collect small issues at https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/labels/good%20first%20issue. In case you do not find something suitable, you are invited to get in touch with us. Comment at the issue, check the the forum or join our chatting channel. For the brave, we also collect issues at https://github.com/koppor/jabref/labels/good%20first%20issue.
After finding something, please check our CONTRIBUTING.md for detailed information and further links.
Look at the discussions in our forum at https://discourse.jabref.org/c/features/6. Find an interesting topic, discuss it and start contributing.
You can talk to the core developers of JabRef in the gitter chat.
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